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“Anything for our Moony”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“Are we going for an anchor or a compass? A memory to ground you, or a spark to guide you forward?”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“You break rules all the time.’ ‘I break laws. That’s different.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“As if my finger, / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors, / was enough / to erase myself.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“If you must know, the best way to understand a man is with your teeth.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You let me eat up all papa’s anger so it wouldn’t poison you. you didn’t mind that he ruined me as long as you were unspoiled and safe. If you ever loved me, it was because I was a soft thing you threw down into the bottom of a pit to break your fall.”
― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

“I am not afraid of your father’s anger. I am afraid of his gentleness.”
“What?”
Sevas looked down. “Even Derkach was capable of kindness. You heard him say that he loves me. Any predator can choose to smile without teeth.”
― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

“God is an absent parent who demands loyalty despite never being around...”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Being transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us