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“The past is past to everyone but ghosts.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“This was a budding man, after all: powerful, dangerous.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“I raised my eyebrows. “Playdates, you say?” Back then I often spoke in sexual innuendo. It was an act of aggression, intended to throw people off-balance so that I could win the interaction, if you counted terminating it as winning it, which I did.”
― Idlewild
― Idlewild
Belle ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Belle ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,493 books
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Favorite Genres
Contemporary, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Young-adult, Literary, and Feminism
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