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“Sometimes I pretend my fear is a little rabbit in my chest. It's the sort of rabbit my brother's school tests their techniques on, with grey fur and dark eyes, and it hides underneath my sternum beside the heart.”

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Book:The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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“Children. Hello, hello, hello. You care for us, and we care for you in turn. You treat us so kindly, children. You offer us so much. We are so lucky to have you. We thank you. We love you.”

Love Care Kindness Grace Acceptance Gratitude Comfort Lucky Cherish Hive

Book:You Weren't Meant to Be Human

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“Oh child. Our cherished one, hello, hello, hello. You've made it. You are safe. You are home.”

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Book:You Weren't Meant to Be Human

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“I thought it'd be gratifying for a Davies to call me a monster, even in a roundabout way. But it's not. Monsters don't get to be innocent. Monsters don't get to beg for mercy. They don't deserve it.”

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Book:Compound Fracture

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“It's all so far back that the only response becomes "Because that's how it is." I ain't mad at Paul; I'm mad at the world that put us here.”

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“Grief is a sin. Loss is God’s design, and to mourn the dead is to insult His vision. To despair at His will is sacrilege. How dare you betray His plan by grieving what was always His to take? Unfaithful, disgusting heretic, you should be hung from the wall so the nonbelievers will know what’s coming for them. Romans 6:23—for the wages of sin is death.”

Religion Grief

Book:Hell Followed With Us

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Religion Grief

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“I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to keep me safe. There is no joy in that. Only fear.”

Society Masculinity Transgender Trans Men

Book:The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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“But while you’re here, officer, why don’t you hold this railroad spike for me? Hold it in your hand and tell me how heavy it is. Tell me which one of us you’d use it on. See what happens if you try.”

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Book:Compound Fracture

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“I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to keep me safe. There is no joy in that. Only fear.”

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Book:The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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“He doesn't have to be my first. He doesn't count. Not if I don't want it to. And I don't want it to.”

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“I don't want to take her apart in the way most men would want to disassemble a woman. Not for any sort of power or hunger. I want to be close, and I don't know how to be close unless I'm elbow-deep in innards.”

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“What else was I to do except what I was told? I never learned how to do anything else.”

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“As soon as you were born with a womb, you were fucked.”

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“Why would you want to be one of them?" she says. ”How could you live with yourself?" I've asked myself that so many times. How could I ever want to be a part of the section of humanity responsible for so much of my suffering? In what ways haven't men hurt me? But then again—in what ways haven't women? In what ways hasn't everyone? I say, "I don't believe in original sin." Mary looks at me askance, frowning. “What they've done isn't my burden to bear. It's theirs.”

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Book:The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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“I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen.”

Lgbtq Transgender Trans Transgender Issues Trans Man

Book:Hell Followed With Us

Source: Hell Followed With Us

“Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats.”

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Book:Hell Followed With Us

Source: Hell Followed With Us

“There is a difference between horrible things that have gone on forever, because you can almost convince yourself of the inevitably of an age-old cruelty, or almost it’s necessity. But not a new one. With a new one, the change is too great, the wound too new, and you cannot convince yourself that it is simply the way of the world.”

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Book:The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

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“I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they continue.”

Hurt Damage Hurting People

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“Death conquers all.”

Reality Death Conquering

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“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I'm just confusing love with comfort, and I'm okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”

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