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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“We're a group of people whose misunderstanding of each other is only topped by people's misunderstanding of us.”
― Thea Hillman, Intersex

“But my heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.”
― Tess Sharpe, Far From You

“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.”
― Annie Dillard