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BUT👏I👏WOULD👏RATHER👏HAVE👏YOU👏WITH👏ME

“there was something so invulnerable about Cat—her fierceness, her determination, all that irrepressible fire. It felt strange, just now, to think that she, Georgiana, was the steady one.”

“They were not friends. Georgiana had several close female friends, and she did not spend her nights imagining them with their clothes off.”

“Could it be so? Was the woman really so pure of heart that she did not nurture her grievances against the entire Cleeve family?”

“If you are so concerned about your own uniqueness, perhaps you might spend your mornings in the production of original plots—not in hiding behind a shrub.”

"I'd rather see Miss Claire be happy than seek my own comfort. I don't long for the life of a noble. As long as I have enough to eat every day, I'm content."

She lifts her phone and points to the time. 12:12 p.m. “make a wish.” “Isn’t that just for eleven eleven?”

“Way to tell the whole world that a corner of my mind is forever colonized by the thought of my credit card debt”

“I’d had no idea I harbored such biases. Being homosexual simply meant that one felt affection for those of the same gender; nothing else really distinguished such people from anyone else.”

“So thats it? You do this and you just … apologize… and there’s no punishment?” — “I’m here, I’m offering. I’ll do whatever you want to make things square with us. But I’m definitely not going to punish myself for us both. That wouldn’t achieve anything.”

“A heart didn’t just break, a heart yanked out the rest of you.”

“Whenever I get bored I go fishing on the shores of Desire.” “Why Desire?” “Don’t know, really—but that’s where all the books from above end up. Lots of romance novels. Really dirty stuff, I can’t get enough of it.”

“Now, Chicago doesn’t mind predators; lesbians, that’s another story” THE FACE I MADE READING THAT

“It wasn’t about the algorithms at all, it was about self-deception. You had to assemble enough proof to convince yourself the world could be another way, and as long as you could trick yourself, then you could trick the world.”

“It has to be me”

Key Notes + Important Ideas:
- Difficulty with having a straight interpreter as a queer Deaf person
- AIDS epidemics impact on Deaf-Gay community
- Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD)
- Personal stories on connection and contrasting with sexuality, race, and deafness

“I suppose we decided to be girls because being boys seems to require giving up half your brain cells.”

“The sun may be a million miles away, but still it lights the moon”

“Anyway, don’t be so vain. I trust my soles more than I trust you. And they tell me to follow you”

“Texture of cohabitation”

“What an extraordinary thing it was, to live.”

“I will love you forever,” she whispered. “Then perhaps I am immortal after all.”

“I grew up in a very devout home, Aurora, and I have never believed in anything as much as I believe in you.”

“Don’t put it off for too long. Poison can grow from blame.”

“You have lit up this home from the moment you entered our world. What an incredible gift to be able to illuminate all of Reverie.”

“Not dead then, just a bitch. Still a bitch. No surprise there.”

“Are you really going to light yourself on fire to keep someone warm who wouldn’t even bother to piss on you to put you out?”

“But you left,” Esther said, seeming to sense Abby’s humiliation. The woman smiled at her, kind and encouraging. “You left, and thats more than most can ever say.”

“What did she want? Everything. She wanted everything. She wanted to be unafraid to ask questions about the world around her. She wanted the answers to come from something other than the Bible. Anything other than the Bible. She wanted to learn.”

“Oh Gwen… what kind of dad would I be if I tried to stop you from being who you were born to be?”