Status Updates From Ordinary Love

okay cool now kiss!

“The way you looked at each other oozed over everything… You haunted each other.”

“This second heartbreak set in like an infection… There was no help for it. It wouldn’t get better. Emily didn’t want it to… Let it be chronic, she thought, as long as it’s mine.”

“Sometimes happiness feels like an animal relief, like you’ve been let off your leash, told that you are good when you worried you’d been bad, allowed to run.”

“Maybe every moment is for once only and nothing repeats itself… I remember our first kiss. There can never be another first kiss… You are always new to me. I can never get enough.”

“It didn’t matter how old her children grew. She would always carry them inside her, the joy of them a brutal tragedy: their devotion, their rejection, their need, their indifference. Their inevitable departure. What else in life do you live without reason or limit, only to surrender it?… Loving your children is like learning how to die. You don’t learn how to let go. You learn only that you must.”

“Sometimes it seemed like he might obliterate everything she cared about in order to make her his. But that’s horrible! Yes: its horror captivated her. The horror was proof of his need. He needed her so much. Only she could alleviate his suffering. He would do anything for her forgiveness. She was a god.”

“The past was done, over; it isn’t a novel you can revise until you get it right.”

i would REALLY like a five star sapphic book because wow that last one was like an advertisement for conversion therapy

lesbians should not have to feel turmoil stop make it happy again