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“I don't know if I believe this but that's what it felt like: As if we were to people mining one body, and in doing so, merged, until no corner was left saying I.”

Love Self Romance Sex Identity

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I had thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, Its rules did not apply. The rules, they were already inside us.”

Sex Queer Internalized Homophobia

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Under the covers, we made friction of each other and fiction of everything else.”

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply. But I was wrong. The rules, they were already inside us.”

Sex Sexuality Lgbtqia

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I looked between my legs and saw his chin moving to work the act into what it was, what it always has been: a kind of mercy. To be clean again. To be good again... To be reclaimed by that want, to be baptized by its pure need. That's what I was.”

Love Sex Mercy Sexuality

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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