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"I am so gay," she whispered to herself happily. It was just your ordinary classical nude, probably a Muse or something, but it was curvy and well-made and it put a smile on her face.


“I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.”
― The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
― The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It

“When you died, you died in small doses. You had trouble speaking. You forgot who was beside you. You were suddenly furious and in a panic of outrage. You wished you could be saintly. You wished you weren't so weak. You suddenly felt better and fooled yourself into believing that a miracle was about to happen. Well, wasn't that all a dirty rotten thing to pull on somebody.”
― The House of Broken Angels
― The House of Broken Angels

“I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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