Status Updates From Written on the Body

‘Honey, if there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.’

“Within the clinical language, through the dispassionate view of the sucking, sweating, greedy, defecating self, I found a love-poem to Louise. I would go on knowing her, more intimately than the skin, hair, and the voice that I craved. I would have her plasma, her spleen, her synovial fluid. I would recognize her even when her body had long since fallen away.”

“I didn’t only want Louise’s flesh, I wanted her bones, her blood, her tissues, the sinews that bound her together. I would have held her next to me though time had stripped away the tones and textures of her skin. I could have held her for a thousand years until the skeleton itself rubbed away to dust. What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?”

I dont understand. Why are we trusting a man, especially a scorned one, to act in every ones best interest?????

I was scared that it was just going to talk poetically about body parts for the rest of the book

How very dare Jeanette pull this shit on me in my delicate state

Let the woman make her own decisions.
Also i wonder if this obsession is only due to her self-denial. She said her longest relationship was with a woman who wasn’t around much. Are the distance and questions the reason she remains faithful.

Faking virginity with half a lemon or an egg white?¿? I need to do research.