intergalactic introvert

“I don’t want to have sex with Lydia. But I think maybe other kinds of touches would be nice. Maybe there’s some subset of being in love with someone that doesn’t involve having sex with them but just involves hugging. Maybe we can figure out how hugging works by practicing on each other.”
― Amy Reed, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

“I think giving someone art is just about the most intimate gift a person can give, except for maybe sex toys or something.”
― Amy Reed, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

“If you start thinking about stuff and how it all might be connected, then you start thinking about things like fate and destiny and the bigger picture and what’s the meaning of all this and what’s your part in it and where do people go when they die, and none of these are things I ever intend to think about.”
― Amy Reed, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

“Dancing is a relief, but it can’t be everything. I am starting to realize this. I can close my eyes and will myself to stop thinking for three, maybe five minutes at a time. I can dance my way out of my head and into my body, where things briefly make sense, but which I always have to leave eventually. Relief never lasts forever. The world is always there, waiting for me with its relentless weirdness. I must always eventually come back. I must stand still. And it is in that stillness that the other parts of me return, the parts of me that intersect with and bump against the rest of the world. The parts that remember and feel.”
― Amy Reed, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World