Status Updates From Hex

I should start making notes when I put books on my to read list. Why am I reading this?
Uni, research, plants, PhD student fascination with her advisor, how do parts about poison relate to what comes next? A bit confused, although not irritated

Women shrink from forcing an uninvited intimacy in him […] partly because they mistake his beauty for its frequent synonym, pride, but pride in Tom is only a mellow bashfulness, he is doing most of the shrinking himself

Do you ever feel like the state of Ohio, an inherently even form of equal measures that has been twisted into something new, asymmetrical and weirdly pointy? I don’t think of you as weirdly pointy, i am just asking how you think of yourself

You made me feel irrelevant and totally free

Admiration is love without expectation