“It was April the season of blood oranges, emotion running like the stream behind my house upstate, turbulent and thawing. I thought about how fragile people get when they withdraw from anything, how they become bloody yolks protected only by the thinnest shell”
― I Love Dick
― I Love Dick
“Remembering what it felt like to be 20 overwhelmed by feeling and sensation, lost for words.”
― I Love Dick
― I Love Dick
“if you want to enjoy the rewards of being loved, you also have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
“However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.”
― Yes Please
― Yes Please
“You're aware there are things you once valued and were proud of in yourself, but they exist at a remove now, because they're overwhelmed by the question of whether they would be good and acceptable to him. Morality, ambition, desire, pleasure all take a backseat to, What would he think of this, and how shall I describe it to him? All you care about is maximizing his impression of you.”
― I Love Dick
― I Love Dick
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