“And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it’s always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth—every day I have ever had—was secretly sunny, after all.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“I’m learning a whole new thing: that sometimes, love isn’t observable or noisy or tangible. That sometimes, love is anonymous. Sometimes, love is silent. Sometimes, love just stands there when you’re calling it a cunt, biting its tongue and waiting.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“Our new budget now, with no wriggle room for anything extra—not a pot of jam, or a new pair of shoes. We cannot do anything other than stay very still. We are on 11 percent less of was-never-enough-in-the-first-place.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
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