Status Updates From Girl Meets Boy (Myths) by A...

“was that incredible colour coming out of me? the shining heads of — what? buttercups? because the scent of them, farmy and delicate, came into my head and out of my eyes, my ears, out of my mouth, out of my nose, I was scent that could see, I was eyes that could taste (…) We were all that (…) A bird, a song (…).” pfffffff I cried… intimacy, oh, intimacy…

“Because of us, things came together. Everything was possible. I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river scene from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had Not Really known I could be so much more than myself. I had not known another body could do this to mine.”

“I went upstairs and put on the right kind of clothes.”

“But I stared at my grandparents in their photo, with their arms round eachother and their heads together, and I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything, but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.”

this is rlly weird I may DNF this

finally finished and wow wow wow i love you ali smith, what a wonderful writer you are.
had me pure (no pun intended) tearing up at the end.

i read more than i thought over my busy weekend away but forgot to track lol.
i’m rly enjoying the themes of gender in this book it was something that i just wasn’t expecting & it’s really well written - from the grandad, the sister, the partner and the greek mythology.