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“I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“Relationships in life don't really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you've been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)--all of them evoke memories, conscious or not.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how impersonal and grasping our love was, pinging around the universe, hoping for a host to give form to our wishes.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
Sara K's Best Muh Ukin Book Club EVER
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ay. its me sara k yeah im not normal. so neither this book club or the books we read will be normal i decided one book at a time is how we are going ...more
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