March 2013
5 posts
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“I’ve got a heart and they can’t have it, but they give me a...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
“Diversity Week is diverse if you are white, male, and straight. They lie to me...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“My poor parents. The shit I put them through. It’s not fair, I suppose,...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“There are only so many ways to rearrange twenty-six letters. You can put that...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Paul Revere
took off his tricorner hat
and a boy
kissed his forehead
...”
– Zoe Trope, (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
July 2012
1 post
7 tags
“And sometimes, if I listen closely enough, I can’t hear anything at all.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
June 2012
2 posts
6 tags
“I’m sorry for all the really great lies I’ve told.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
8 tags
“this is just a drill
we are just playing pretend
in case of fire
in case of...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
May 2012
17 posts
6 tags
“They yell and hug and celebrate the fact that they’ve grown up and...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I cried very, very hard today. Gasping, chocking sobs that I couldn’t talk...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I am trying not to drown. I am trying to bloom. Please don’t kill the...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“…the evening is absolutely wonderful. The room is humid and quite moist,...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Techno Boy wouldn’t believe me, but I told him anyway.
‘I love...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I am scared of what will happen to me if I can’t start caring or doing...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I’m quite a few miles away, staring intently at the clock, wondering where...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“It’s so easy to be perfect. Just don’t do anything at all.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“A lot of my dreams happen in airplanes.”
“Why?”
“I...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman, What Came After: A Post-Graduate Thesis)
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“Dreams stick to you like a skin. When you hang out with someone in a dream, you...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman, What Came After: A Post-Graduate Thesis)
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“…I’ll change it to make you, make them happy. Tell people what they...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Some days it’s really nice to forget who I am.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
8 tags
“Oh, God. This girl, at the library, was seven years old. I’m TWICE her...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“My eyes keep welling up with tears but I can’t quite cry. A swollen lump...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I am thinking that I don’t need to prove myself to the people who...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“They’ve won. The politicians, the stupid girls, the angry boys,...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I still feel like I’m jumping on an elevator - weightless and pulled down...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
April 2012
7 posts
6 tags
“Only recently has my addiction to people become so apparent. I crave e-mails and...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
7 tags
“I’m supposed to be taking notes on war and hate but I’d much rather...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Words are strewn around everywhere like confetti, small pieces of colored paper....”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Most girls make hearts and arrows and initials of the boys they love in the...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“We turn off our porch lights and pretend we aren’t home. You can never...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“They lie to me all over my heart and I yell in their faces. Spit lands on their...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Make me good again, Linux. Make me beautiful. I’m wilting without you.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
March 2012
14 posts
5 tags
“I ate dinner very slowly and drank a diet coke and tried to believe that by...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Linux Shoe,
Have fun with that girl at the winter formal. I hope she makes you...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I fucked up the brownies.
They wouldn’t come out in neat even squares so...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I wanna watch you get more pretty. I wasn’t so good at watching before,...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Nothing is quite as lonely as the silent rejection of my telephone.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
7 tags
“Today I wished I could fly an airplane. No, not so I could fly to her, but so I...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
6 tags
“I miss being raw like July. I think heat forced the synapses in my brain to melt...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“…and then we ate ice cream at the mall. Forgive the irony.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I stretch my arms to my right, to my north, to a city I’ve never seen. We...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I watched the meteor shower at 2 A.M. I lay on a cold sidewalk in front of...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“So this is a break. Are we broken? Can anyone fix us? Got any tape? A...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Sometimes it’s like I’m screaming on the front lawn and she sends...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“From thin air, everything I am doing is wrong. I am taking him for granted. I am...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I wondered what it would be like to be so in love with someone who had a...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
February 2012
28 posts
5 tags
“And my existence feels even more meaningless than usual.”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I will never understand how washed up I feel on land, how washed up I feel here...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“I vow not to write about love, not to be another cliché, not to say words that...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman)
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“Just tell me to shut up. Tell me to stop complaining. Tell me that all of this...”
– Zoe Trope (Please Don’t Kill the Freshman) 