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“Never mistake maintenance for care, attention for love, or even love for empathy.”
― Famesick
― Famesick
“He was part of it, but I was most of it. It
was the shift in me that was making this experience—one of pleasure, not
guilty pleasure or rageful pleasure or pleasure that pulsed with a deeper,
unspoken need—possible.
I finally understood, in some exquisite way, the cost of all these years
spent dividing myself in two: little whore or Jack’s baby girl. Needy slut or
loving wife. Grateful fat girl or feminist boss. I couldn’t do it anymore. It
hurt too much, to cleave myself from myself. I just wanted to be in my
body. And there I was.”
― Famesick
was the shift in me that was making this experience—one of pleasure, not
guilty pleasure or rageful pleasure or pleasure that pulsed with a deeper,
unspoken need—possible.
I finally understood, in some exquisite way, the cost of all these years
spent dividing myself in two: little whore or Jack’s baby girl. Needy slut or
loving wife. Grateful fat girl or feminist boss. I couldn’t do it anymore. It
hurt too much, to cleave myself from myself. I just wanted to be in my
body. And there I was.”
― Famesick
“I understood now that trying to understand why two people fall out of love is a bit like studying a place that existed before photographs, pre–printing press, a time that is kept alive only by the stone foundations of burnt cottages and buried barrels of mead found by determined archaeologists or lucky farmers. We may have the evidence—the daily messages exchanged between former partners (“baby cakes, do you like these curtains or do they make you think of Vegas?”), the iPhone images of early courtship (hands entwined on the plane to a new city), and the devolution (absent-eyed in New Year’s hats that read 2017 in hopeful glitter). But we can never be the people who occupied that place.”
― Famesick
― Famesick
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