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“Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they’re a minority, and they don’t deserve the same rights as straights, that they’re going to grow up in a world that despises them, that the intolerance of humanity will never change, that they’re worthless. It’s not true.”
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“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
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“He seems to feel his own worth, and the greatness of his fall.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy.”
― The Hallowed Ones
― The Hallowed Ones
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