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And I am going to use my voice for you, and for me. Hate is loud. We are louder.”
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“Let them listen to what joy sounds like. Maybe they’ll learn a thing or two.”
“Ah,” Arthur said. “Clear as mud.” “Yes, yes,” Linus said, distracted. “It’s the government. What do you expect?
for a time she supported legislation that would have made it illegal for children who come from queer families to talk about them, saying that it would only confuse children who came from proper families. There were even rumblings about coming down hard on parents of transgender children seeking medical care.”
When the fantasy book’s horror is just the real world’s florida
“So everyone in the government is mostly terrible,”
“Because we understand how the minds of men work. Give them a little smile, touch their arm, hang on their every word, and they believe they’re God’s gift to women.”
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“That’s the funny thing about those in power. They underestimate everyone beneath them,
in the eyes of those who love you, those who know you, you’ve done what you always have: your best.
“I would care for you even if you were an oyster,” Arthur promised him.
Its giving ‘would you still love me if i was a worm’
I’m an adult who does adult things, like taxes and laundry and being sad for no reason.” Unfazed, the conductor said, “How wonderful! I, too, am filled with an encroaching dread over my own mortality.
You can get away with anything once, sometimes twice if you try hard enough.”
Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?
“It’s hard.” “What is?” “Being alive.”
He said it’s okay to not be okay, so long as it doesn’t become all we know.”
Lucy nodded. “And I’ll open up a dimensional doorway in the fabric of reality and send her to a place where even demons fear to tread. What is this evil place, you might be asking? Great question!” He spread his hands wide in a practiced display of showmanship. “It’s called … Florida.”
“She didn’t want to listen to me talk about sticky buns and Hell. I’m so sad for her.”
Why could a child do what adults could not?
I’m just a little guy!”
He’s just a little guy!!
I finally understood what life was supposed to be like. Color, joy. Togetherness. Knowing people are there to have your back even when you’re at your darkest.”
Arthur took Linus’s into his own, squeezing tightly. In the distance, the crash of waves, the songs of birds. “How you move me,”
You are sunlight chasing away the clouds on a rainy day. You are the brightest flower in a garden where color fights to exist.
And I love you with every fiber of my being. You are in my every breath, in every beat of my heart,
Hope is the thing with feathers, yes, and hope is the thing with fire.
I do want to be remembered as something, and it’s very specific: not the Antichrist, but the Anti–J.K. Rowling.
