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Abandoning the imposition of a calendar helped me understand that time isn’t real; it has no logic in the absence of hope or anticipation.
Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don’t learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well you memorize or love the vocabulary, grammar, and cadences of a new language.
“What’s truly revolutionary in this world is to relinquish the belief that you have a right to an opinion about who another person chooses to fuck and why.
But marriage unsettled me. The physical intimacy of it. Its permanence. The ownership of belonging to a man.
“For the ones we love, nothing is ever trouble, and everything is never enough.”
“Here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.”
if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived.”
about knowing that our struggle is rooted in morality, and that the struggle itself is not against them as a people, but against what infects them—the idea that they are a better form of human, that God prefers them, that they are inherently a superior race, and we are disposable.”
how it is that death can be life’s only assurance and yet also its greatest, most devastating surprise.
the state will always find a way to imprison those who are truly free, who do not accept social, economic, or political chains.”
