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“I know. It’s not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter.”

I miss you more than I remember you.

A comma forced to be a period.

“Because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”

"When did this all start? I gave birth to a healthy, normal boy, I know that. When?"

This is all too cruel.

I am a queer body.

“I had thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply. But I was wrong.
The rules, they were already inside us.”

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.”

“Cause you never see yourself if you’re the sun, you don’t even know where you are in the sky.”

“Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you’d know it’s a flood.”

“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.

To be or not to be. That is the question.”

A heavy tear fell into the book.

“I am writing from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”

Oof

Im already crying

“My life closed me in like granite walls.”

Something about that made me stop and stare at my ceiling.

“However gold he shines, do not forget his fire.”

"Take my freedom, Grey, Everything I have is yours. Everything I am is yours. Take my freedom, and keep your power, and keep my life. If you are here, I want to live. Even if it requires haunting this godforsaken rock for the rest of my life, never being more than an hours walk from you at any time—because honestly, that's how we would be anyway."

“What is life, without you?”

“Why must you always sacrifice yourself, and call that love?”

I am speechless.

What is love without freedom?