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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

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“Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle.”

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“Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism. Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.”

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“Sometimes you don’t let yourself know what you know.”

Wisdom Knowledge Childhood Awareness Ignorance Trauma Protection Innocence Contradiction

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“Sometimes a thing happens that's so bad that it feels like things should be made to look on the outside, the way they feel on the inside.”

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“...who'd walk to school on Monday and who'd have to pass the smoking heap of what used to be their neighborhoods because when adults are haunted, it's the kids who get the worst frights...The word "aftermath" came to mind. I guess it means the time after something terrible happens when you do the math to figure out what has been added and what's been subtracted.”

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“Of course when the history books tell of the groups murdered by the Nazis, they never list the prostitutes, because I'm sure the mention of their deaths is considered a stain on the other victims. The attitude is that the lives of prostitutes are worthless. I think it is self-hate. Our world hates anyone who would accept us and our bodies, and our secret desires without reservation. But that is what the ladies taught me... to welcome disdained things.”

Murder Shame Holocaust Misogyny Prostitution Xenophobia Nazis Sex Work Sex Workers

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“I've come to believe that love is actually the weirdest monster out there. And if you think love doesn't rip people to bloody shreds - you're dead wrong!”

Love Monsters Bloody Monster Shreds

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