Gracie

“Listlessness does not become you, my mother used to say, but I always had the feeling that nothing on earth would ever become me: listlessness, earnestness, short hair, fringes, dark nail varnish, stripes, bodycon, A-line, tomboyishness, girlishness,
androgyny, bohemian carelessness, New York uptightness, smartness, sports kit, sports, sweating, civility, dresses, make-up, wistfulness, confidence, prudishness, sexuality, sexlessness, body hair, body weight, being overweight, that T-shirt of my sister's that I longed for - the one that I stole and wore and spoilt. Your father's daughter, my mother would say, turning away.”
― Emma van Straaten, Creep

“I wanted everything. He wasn't saying it in words, but he was saying it in something like them: he wanted that too.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I would have cut my own arm so that he could heal the wound.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“Sometimes the good bits of people aren't the rule, they're the exception.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words