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“happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time”
“I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch ov...”
“We all want everything to be okay. We dont even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
“One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and eff...”
“The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... Its the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.”
“Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”
“The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
“I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.”
“Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.”
“Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.”
“I wake up.Immediately I have to figure out who I am. Its not just the bodyopening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether Im f...”
“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 pe...”
“If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.”