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Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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Katie Ford, from If You Have to Go: Poems; “The Addresses”

[Text ID: “Can I drag you through me, just to feel? / can’t I be allowed to need you, too?”]

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Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “See”

[Text ID: “How rare to see someone and feel. / How rare to see someone and know / you are not alone, / for your eyes are theirs, / your pain, too. / How rare to truly see someone.”]

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To the Desert, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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You are not responsible for making people understand your choices. Let them be confused.

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just need a femme to myself so i can come home and cuddle her. or so i can play with her clit and suck it between my lips while i pump my fingers in and out of her tight cunt. so i can manhandle her when i get back from the gym. or so i can eat her out whenever i want. so i have a pretty girl who’ll eat me out and undo my belt. a femme who will send me teasing pics while i’m in school or at the gym, anyone want to volunteer?

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— Sarah Williams

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to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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— Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.