“I love beautiful things, beautiful people, the magnetism of someone you can't take your eyes off of.”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
“It's hard to remember who you are, without people who know you that way.”
― Fault Lines
― Fault Lines
“You’re a badass, hot-as-hell, fucking brilliant doctor, not some insecure high school girl. Man up!” “Do you know how rife with toxic masculinity the phrase man up is?” I challenged, mirroring her pose. “It implies that to be courageous is to be a man.” “Do you know how annoying it is when you change the subject?” Her tone was smug. “I’m just saying, we don’t need to insert men into every aspect of our language.” “Okay, ovary up. Fallopian forward. Vulva with a vengeance.”
― How To Fail at Flirting
― How To Fail at Flirting
“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love, how emotional issues become too cumbersome to deal with, how their love for you is too much sometimes, just too much. Kim sometimes thinks that women practise being mothers on men until they become actual mothers, leaving behind a kind of vacancy.”
― The Night She Disappeared
― The Night She Disappeared
“Does letting go mean losing everything you have, or does it mean gaining everything you never had?”
― The Paper Palace
― The Paper Palace
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