Status Updates From How to Be Both

"A small bee-like creature landed on the cuff of her jacket and she flicked it away . . .

But . . . she realized the impact her finger must have had on something so small . . .

It must have felt like being punched by a god.

That’s when she sensed, like something blurred and moving glimpsed through a partition whose glass is clouded, both that love was coming for her and the nothing she could do about it."

"She was always so curious, about where I was, what I was doing, who I was doing it with, who else I was meeting up with or working with, especially that and what I was working on, what I was writing about, what I thought about this or that, it was constant, and I thought, well, that’s a bit like love, that obsessiveness, when people are in love they need to know the strangest things . . ."

its better than the accidental