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“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.”
― Eileen
― Eileen

“There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, your course, is "silence." But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House

“I vow to always let you grow. I鈥檒l never tell you that I know who you really are just because we鈥檝e known each other since we were kids.”
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

“It is, understandably, considered gauche to describe bisexuality as transitory, almost as gauche as the word 鈥渂isexual鈥 itself. Perhaps it would be better to think of bisexuality as queerly universal鈥攕tem cells potent with potential. As long as compulsive heteronormativity exists, queer people will pass through bisexuality at some point, however briefly. Some tear through it on a speedboat, heading for a more monosexual harbor, others circle, content, drinking aperitifs in the sun.”
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
― It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

“When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world. Tom says that even words as basic as numbers are imbued with layers of meaning. The numbers we use to count plants in the sweetgrass meadow also recall the Creation Story. 脡苍:蝉办补鈥攐ne. This word invokes the fall of Skywoman from the world above. All alone, 茅苍:蝉办补, she fell toward the earth. But she was not alone, for in her womb a second life was growing. 罢茅办别苍颈鈥攖here were two. Skywoman gave birth to a daughter, who bore twin sons and so then there were three鈥谩丑蝉别苍. Every time the Haudenosaunee count to three in their own language, they reaffirm their bond to Creation.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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