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well damn

"Men and woman alike confounded Paul; they were so rule-bound. Straight people seemed confused by each other, so anxious to find camaraderie within their gender, so startled by differences between their bodies, always pinning explanations for the inevitable gulf between humans on chromosomes."

"'Woman Who Posed As A Man Is Found Slain With 2 Others,' the headline read."

[...]

"'/He was in here all the time with girls, and the girls were hanging all over him, Ms. Gresham said/. He sounds like a total player.'

'/She/,' said Zoe.

'Right,' said Paul. 'She.'"

"He could tell she liked that he was girlier than her, liked that she was so much bigger than him, liked to do little things for him, but sometimes he did wonder if she liked liking what she liked."

"Her shoulders were broader than his. You'll stretch it! he thought helplessly when she'd borrowed his shirt that morning, but no, better, he'd sacrifice his shirts for her. He'd wear the stretched-out shirt thinking /Diane's body was here and I am now inside the space she left, I fit myself inside her shape./"

"Heterosexuality = marriage = death, Paul knew."

well yes girl! straight men are horrible at fucking!

"Anyway, by the way, yes, I am a giant queer who threatens your pathetic sense of knowing anything about the world, tiny asshole."

"You're too beautiful to die, I don't want you to die."

"I don't want you to die, too. Let's never die."

"Everyone dies sometime, we'll be in the earth, one with everything. But not until we're very old."

"Okay, when we're very old."