intergalactic introvert

“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 I act like nothing is wrong, then nothing is wrong. I manifest my own reality. I am made out of love and light.”
― Amy Reed, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

“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

“My body is all that exists. It is the only thing I can depend on. Music or no music, there is a rhythm that cancels out all the other noise, all the nonsense that keeps screaming for attention, all the pain of the world outside.
I point and leap and spin, and sweat whips off me, showering the duct-taped boards under my bare, calloused feet. I see myself in the fractured shards of mirror I glue-gunned to the wall. This is how I know myself--in this tattered leotard; in these ripped tights; in this broken, salvaged room. This is the only place I’m real.
This is the place I come when I need to remember who I am. This is where I come when I need to forget everything else.”
― Amy Reed, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World