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The Sun Blessed Prince

by Lindsey Byrd (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, fantasy, queer-fiction, currently-reading

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connie’s Quotes

“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments

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“if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”
― Judah Alharizi, The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain

tags: jewish, queer, religious

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“Favors of the cut sleeve are generous,
Love of the half-eaten peach never dies.”
― Liu Zun

tags: chinese-poetry, lgbtq, multitudinous-blossoms, poetry, queer, queer-poetry

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“Sometimes, after long intervals, I have thought to feel the slight stir of an approach, a touch as light as the contact of eyelashes and warm as the hollow of a hand. And the shade of Patroclus appears at Achilles' side..”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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