Status Updates From I Am You

Honestly was tempted to DNF this but I was already half way through and wanted to commit to it… I really had higher hopes for this one

"'I have my selves, and there are a couple of those selves I'd be happy to give up.'"

"'I've had my share of worldly delicacy and drink...let your company be the sweetness that fills me,..not the pastry."

"Do any of us suspect danger in the coming hour when the prior hours held every goodness an hour might hold?"

"The key to selfishness. I didn't have to bother with it because someone else was."

"I knew all too well the relief in being free of what you've always been. Relief to shed all the expectation that drags heavy at the hem of oneself."

"He spoke of his acquisitions with great restraint, as if they were under his protection rather than ownership."

"We dressed in similar shades, mine always in a hue a few steps down from hers. If Maria wore midnight blue, I wore cornflower."

"Luyc is more concerned with mushrooms than me."

"What could be better...than to entertain guests with a game of guessing which was by the lady's hand and which by the maid's?" Games, of course, are another diversion of the rich."

"The rich are prone to crazes. They can't help it. The itch to spend. To acquire. Often couched in curiosity."

“I can’t explain it. Only that our nonsense was also a pleasure.”

“Why are all the easy days, the stretch of a simple life, not the real story?…why do all these good days slurry until they puddle in the mind…how can we explain the unnamable daily delights of life between intimates?”

“However well I believed I knew her-her hungers and reservations-there was another world within her that would remain forever subterranean, vaporous, and impenetrable. I wanted to stand there basking in that unknown. In the marvel of her complete privacy. And at the same time, I wanted to disturb her, to intrude.”

“I was flooded, a tide of fury and longing so strong I surrendered to where the current pulled.”