“It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance.”
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
News: New sponsors for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Torrey Peters became the first trans woman to be nominated for the £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction, which was contested in an anonymous open letter by the Wild Woman Writing Club.
Normal People
“You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
Conversations With Friends
"You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position."