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“I organize it all into piles, into solvable problems, into scenarios from which I can devise escape plans. I am back in the thick of it, gazing out across the chessboard and trying to mitigate whatever happens next.
But for a minute, upstairs, with Charlie’s arms tight across my back, everything was okay.
I was okay.
Drifting in a comforting, bodiless dark, where nothing needed to be fixed and I could just—I think of Sally’s arms lifting at her sides—settle.”
― Book Lovers
But for a minute, upstairs, with Charlie’s arms tight across my back, everything was okay.
I was okay.
Drifting in a comforting, bodiless dark, where nothing needed to be fixed and I could just—I think of Sally’s arms lifting at her sides—settle.”
― Book Lovers
“Those are the two shots that take Benji’s life. Both to the heart. What else could they have hit in there? He was all heart.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“The stories of Beartown and Hed could have ended here, but stories about towns never really end. The only stories that end are the ones about people.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
“We categorize sexual orientations for the same reason we categorize anything, to better understand what it is and how it relates to other things.”
― Is This a Cry for Help?
― Is This a Cry for Help?
“He traveled so far, so long in the hope of finding all the answers, but no one ever manages that. You just find more bodies, more dance floors, more mornings of hangovers so heavy that it hurts to blink. There are no new lives, just different versions of the old one.”
― The Winners
― The Winners
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