“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not.”
Paragraph after paragraph of this book floored me when I first read this, and there are times when I don’t dare read it again. It lifts you with perfect prose then hammers you with something so traumatic and blunt that you need to take a breath. At times, it’s *too* good. Like, annoyingly good.
Its design, its thought process, its execution, its implementation, its weaving, its cornering, its boundary setting, its battling, and its emotions are just so well executed.
lgbtq+ WRITING 
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