"We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed……" — Paul Monette
"We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing."
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9 Quotes by Paul Monette
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Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
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Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.
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The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
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Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that…
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But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to…
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