Kindle Notes & Highlights
Addicts and alcoholics have a way of getting people to take care of them
And in those ten years, there have been periods during which I knew complete joy. But now ... I don’t really know what I feel anymore. Sometimes I feel a kind of humming that I take to be happiness.
“You always had nice clothes? You ever wear trash?” Lewis knows it’s a trap but he can’t resist. “I always had nice clothes.” Judy’s voice is soft now, modulated. “And you still never felt right, I bet.You always felt like a piece of shit no matter how nice those clothes were. Am I right?” Lewis nods warily. Judy gestures to the room. “Like all of us. No matter how nice that ... .stuff ... was. Never fixed us. None of us. We never felt like we belonged. Never felt comfortable. Most of us since we were kids. Like we were from another planet. No matter how much shit you got, nothin’s ever going
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Crystal first finds a way to fix all of the problems that we have and then, when it has made itself indispensable, reveals its true self. For Evan, the drug that took him out of the closet and placed
We all hold those perfect moments in our minds like talismans. My perfect moment had nothing to do with romance or bonding. It was, rather, seeing for the first time what gay men could create.
Nostalgia is such a strange emotion, deepening pleasure by reminding me of something no longer present.
