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【讀】Swimming in the Dark | 動亂不安下的同志感情

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"Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want."

"Some people, some events make you lose your head. They’re like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after."

"This is how I lived back then – through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting."

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

"This wasn’t distraction or entertainment: here was a book that seemed to have been written for me, which lifted me up into its realm and united me with something that seemed to have been there all along and that I seemed to be a part of. It felt as if the words and the thoughts of the narrator – despite their agony, despite their pain – healed some of my agony and my pain, simply by existing."

"No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires too."

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