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Tell Me It's Real
Tell Me It's Real | Tj Klune
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Do you believe in love at first sight? Paul Auster doesn't. Paul doesn't believe in much at all. He's thirty, slightly overweight, and his best features are his acerbic wit and the color commentary he provides as life passes him by. His closest friends are a two-legged dog named Wheels and a quasibipolar drag queen named Helena Handbasket. He works a dead-end job in a soul-sucking cubicle, and if his grandmother's homophobic parrot insults him one more time, Paul is going to wring its stupid neck. Enter Vince Taylor. Vince is everything Paul isn't: sexy, confident, and dumber than the proverbial box of rocks. And for some reason, Vince pursues Paul relentlessly. Vince must be messing with him, because there is no way Vince could want someone like Paul. But when Paul hits Vince with his car-in a completely unintentional if-he-died-it'd-only-be-manslaughter kind of way-he's forced to see Vince in a whole new light. The only thing stopping Paul from believing in Vince is himself-and that is one obstacle Paul can't quite seem to overcome. But when tragedy strikes Vince's family, Paul must put aside any notions he has about himself and stand next to the man who thinks he's perfect the way he is.
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TheIntrovertedDodoBird
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Where do I start? Do I hype up the absolute hilarity of this novel first, or the goo-goo romanticism that I couldn't help but adore? Gone are the cookie-cutter clichés usually attached to M/M lit relationships, beautiful & proudly queer from beginning to end. Paul's unique, blundering narration is wholly enjoyable, his awkward character totally relatable. He's practically a walking trope of sassy one-liners that never got old. Utterly hysterical!

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"Indifference might not have the connotations of hate, but it could hurt just as badly."

~ Tell Me It's Real by TJ Klune.

This quote resonated with me so profoundly that I found myself re-reading it over and over again. It's a painful truth that should be nothing more than a lesson learnt. However, that doesn't seem to be the case as so many people bask in their privilege and are indifferent to anything that doesn't personally effect them.

SamAnne Oh, I had to take a screenshot of this. 2y
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