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“[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics鈥攖he idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that encompasses the inevitable material realities that shape every atom of our lives: where we live, how we work, our relationship to justice鈥攊s a fantasy of epic proportions. This kind of nonpolitical storytelling鈥攁nd the stunted readership it demands鈥攁sks us to uphold the lie that certain bodies, certain characters, certain stories, remain depoliticized, neutral, and universal.”
― How to Read Now
― How to Read Now

“I don鈥檛 know how to hold this truth,
so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down
in case, later, no one believes me.”
― The Carrying
so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down
in case, later, no one believes me.”
― The Carrying

“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“You don鈥檛 have to have a reason to be tired. You don鈥檛 have to earn rest or comfort. You鈥檙e allowed to just be.”
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“He would come to share her joys until he could no longer separate them from his own, and then one day, maybe turning to her at a party or rushing to ask in a text message, he would say: What's that thing I like? And she would know the answer. She would know everything.
Eventually, all the answers to all that he was would be cradled in the palms of her hands.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
Eventually, all the answers to all that he was would be cradled in the palms of her hands.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
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