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“She remembered her first-ever boyfriend of over thirty years ago, who told her he preferred smaller breasts than hers, while his hands were on her breasts, as if she’d find this interesting, as if women’s body parts were dishes on a menu and men were the goddamned diners.
This is what she said to that first boyfriend: “Sorry.”
This was her first boyfriend’s benevolent reply: “That’s okay.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
This is what she said to that first boyfriend: “Sorry.”
This was her first boyfriend’s benevolent reply: “That’s okay.”
― Nine Perfect Strangers
“Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.”
― A Princess of Mars
― A Princess of Mars
“They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.”
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“because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
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