Because I’m still new to feeling that I’m allowed to need anything, and trusting that people who offer it really want to offer it, someone asking what I need often feels like they’re asking me to order from a menu I’ve never seen before.
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“You feel like telling him that you’re not single in the way he thinks you’re single. After all, you have yourself.”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“Explaining why you love something is one of the most important jobs on earth.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“And, like all the best quests, in the end, I did it all for a girl: me.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“The 1990s are a bad time to be poor and not-famous.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“Because my biggest secret of all—the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn’t even put in my diary—is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much—because it will keep me safe, and keep me lucky, and it’s too exhausting not to be.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
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