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“She doesn't know. Of course she doesn't know. How could she know? She is the quintessential starving artist. Look at her homemade haircut. She's never had two pickles to rub together. Isn't into pickles at all by the looks of her. Well, I'll tell you. We do it, my little destitute dyke--we do it, my little cash-strapped strap-on--by charging their parents boatloads of money. Not the parents of American Fabius Morales of course. But the parents of his cohort, certainly.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“Love is not an accomplishment, yet to lack it still somehow feels like failure.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
“I knew she did not love me, not really. I knew that to her I was just a puzzle piece that had to be forced to fit. And yet as she held me too close, squeezed me hard enough to bruise my ribs, as she cried into my hair, as her tears pooled in my ears I felt: this is what it is like to be loved.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“And he's attracted to her, he can admit that. After these months away from home, life seems much larger, and his personal dramas less significant. He's not the same anxious, repressed person he was in school, when his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Connell's initial assessment of the reading was not disproven. It was culture as class performance, literature fetishized for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterward feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably, this was how the industry made money.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
Mooshi’s 2025 Year in Books
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