#currently reading!

[megafaunatic]

"a bundle of asparagus," edouard manet • the hare with amber eyes, edmund de waal • "a sprig of asparagus," edouard manet

[scandireader]

I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice (...) and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of these things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable.

Hannah Green, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)

[letterful]

She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE, from Radiance.

[dkafterdark]

"Queerness crosses sexual boundaries, gendered expectations, and political borders. It is always in motion because to stop moving would be to surrender to the bigots who want to box us in--who want to check our birth certificates at bathroom doors or determine whom we sleep with before they bake us a cake. That is the beauty of queerness: it is irrepressible, like a spring rushing up to fill cracks in the earth. Queerness shows up uninvited. It doesn't check your voting history or your religious affiliation before knocking on your door." -- Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen

[fforestgreen]

I hunger to commit the act of touch.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[doomedyuri]

i’m finally reading the pillars of eternity guidebook and.... there he is!! 

[doomedyuri]

📚 23.7.18 | currently reading ➸ the gene: an intimate history by siddhartha mukherjee.