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“The nights were advantageous, too. After they kissed their families goodnight, it was expected that they would share a bed, their bodies close, their movements obscured under the covers.”

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Book:Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis

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“What if I have come to see same-gender love as a really solid choice—just a brilliant idea? Something I would highly recommend? And what if I demand freedom not because I was “born this way” and “can’t help it” but because I can do whatever I choose to do with my love and my body from year to year, moment to moment—because I’m a grown woman who does not need any excuse to live however I want to live and love whomever I want to love? What if I don’t need your permission slip because I’m already free?”

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Book:Untamed

Source: Untamed

“We never... recover from our first false solution to feeling frustrated – the inventing of an ideal object of desire with whom we will never feel the frustration we fear. The ideal person in our minds becomes a refuge from realer exchanges with realer people.”

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Book:Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things... and to laugh.”

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Book:If Cats Disappeared from the World

Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World

“That evening was the evening of the full moon. The garden was an enchanted place where all the flowers seemed white. The lilies, the daphnes, the orange-blossom, the white stocks, the white pinks, the white roses - you could see these as plainly as in the daytime; but the coloured flowers existed only as fragrance.”

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Book:The Enchanted April

Source: The Enchanted April

“Don't have a mother", Peter said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.”

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