Status Updates From My Only Boy

God this hurts

I won’t give a conclusive view on this book yet, but it is definitely getting me out of my four months long slump. A motivation may be that I actually went to the bookstore as a birthday gift for myself and this was one of the books I bought.

What I was hoping wouldn't happen happened...

"I thought about our arms around other people, other people’s arms around us, but somehow it only made it worse. It was always the thing I’d found most unbearable: the ways that loving someone had put them in danger rather than made them safe."

It's interesting how labels give us comfort. We don't need to know everything about ourselves, but we do feel better when we can stack paper in neat piles.

This is an extreme version of politics infiltrating every aspect of our lives.

This is an extreme version of politics being part of/invading every aspect of our lives.

This book is way too real and unreal at the same time

Very excellent very scary stuff