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“And lastly, to all the real-life Luis Ortegas of the world: I hope you fall dick first on a cactus. I hope you choke on Cheetos dust. I hope every time it’s really hot at night and you flip your pillow to feel the cool side, I hope it’s hot on that side too. I hope your spoon falls all the way in your soup. I hope you hear about this book, and I hope it haunts you.”
― The Luis Ortega Survival Club
― The Luis Ortega Survival Club
“You're usually so understanding," he says, his face settled with a milky look of concern.
It's a masterfully chosen phrase, a way of pinning the problem back onto me, like he's just the timid guy trying to make sense of his girlfriend's "outburst," which he quantifies as any emotion that makes him remotely uncomfortable, which is any emotion that isn't happiness or horniness. I would be impressed if I wasn't so livid.”
― Half His Age
It's a masterfully chosen phrase, a way of pinning the problem back onto me, like he's just the timid guy trying to make sense of his girlfriend's "outburst," which he quantifies as any emotion that makes him remotely uncomfortable, which is any emotion that isn't happiness or horniness. I would be impressed if I wasn't so livid.”
― Half His Age
“I've tried not to ask for much, and to expect even less. I've tried to make them feel funny when they say all the same jokes, feel smart when they all have the same point of view, feel right when a quick Google search confirms that they're not. I've tried to laugh on cue, smile on cue, compliment on cue. I've watered down my personality to a cardboard cutout version of myself, and I thought that was fine so long as my body showed up in 4D with bells and whistles, ready to grab and grope and lick and suck.”
― Half His Age
― Half His Age
“I’m used to the person I’m dating, or sleeping with, or whatever it is, telling me all the things I ought to know instead of getting to know me. It’s how men, or boys, or both, communicate. They quote and they riff and they rant and they explain and they explain and they explain.”
― Half His Age
― Half His Age
“PRAYER FOR A RECOVERING CODEPENDENT
What is missing from your constitution right now, my darling, is not empathy, but courage.
It takes fortitude not to leap into somebody else’s suffering with them and call that love.
It takes faith to know that you are not the appointed arbiter of anyone else’s journey.
And it takes humility to admit that you cannot control anyone—
that you might not even understand what you’re looking at.
What you call a “crisis” might be someone else’s awakening, ten thousand lifetimes in the making.
(The awakening, my love, might even be your own.)
And what you call “care” might be dangerous disruption of an ecosystem of unimaginable delicacy.
How hard that person’s soul might have fought its way through the cosmos for millions of ages
to finally arrive here—on the final precipice of egoic collapse.
How close they might be, at last, to freedom.
All they have to do now is shatter.
Maybe stand back.
Maybe let it happen.”
― All the Way to the River
What is missing from your constitution right now, my darling, is not empathy, but courage.
It takes fortitude not to leap into somebody else’s suffering with them and call that love.
It takes faith to know that you are not the appointed arbiter of anyone else’s journey.
And it takes humility to admit that you cannot control anyone—
that you might not even understand what you’re looking at.
What you call a “crisis” might be someone else’s awakening, ten thousand lifetimes in the making.
(The awakening, my love, might even be your own.)
And what you call “care” might be dangerous disruption of an ecosystem of unimaginable delicacy.
How hard that person’s soul might have fought its way through the cosmos for millions of ages
to finally arrive here—on the final precipice of egoic collapse.
How close they might be, at last, to freedom.
All they have to do now is shatter.
Maybe stand back.
Maybe let it happen.”
― All the Way to the River
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