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“This Summer has been just a little too warm, the sun has been a little too bright. My thoughts have been a little bit too uncontrollable. And my emotions a little too humid. They only grow more humid. It all just gets stickier. Soon I think I will be unable to go even one day without lying on the grass with her.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“I'm becoming an angry person with no tolerance for anyone. I'm aware of this shift and yet have no desire to change it. If anything, I want it. It's armor. It's easier to be angry than to feel to pain underneath it.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“I would soon come to understand that adulthood was exactly this: the constant upending of everything you believed when you were young.”
― My Last Innocent Year
― My Last Innocent Year
“Most people say developing is linear, but for survivors it is cyclic. People grow up, victims grow around; we strengthen around the place that hurt, become older and fuller, but the vulnerable core is never gone.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.”
― The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words
― The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words
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