"Once,” Fran says, settling against"

“Once,” Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, “I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can’t choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn’t that you?”

- Madeleine George,

Tag: bravery, coming-out, gay-and-lesbian, honesty, love, relationships, self-awareness,

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“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway…and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from “Descendants of the Eminent”)”

- Tim Cummings

Tag: addiction, afterlife, astrology, brothers, children-of-celebrities, class-struggle, dolls, epilepsy, gay-and-lesbian, ghosts, goth-lifestyle, hollywood, jocks, love, mothers-and-daughters, plays, poetry, progeria, screenplays, suicide, teenagers, war,

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“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years”

- Tim Cummings,

Tag: addiction, afterlife, astrology, brothers, children-of-celebrities, class-struggle, dolls, epilepsy, gay-and-lesbian, ghosts, goth-lifestyle, hollywood, jocks, love, mothers-and-daughters, plays, poetry, progeria, screenplays, suicide, teenagers, war,

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