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*actually 371

bro i feel manic

*actually page 335, but goodreads thinks the book ends at 336 pages for some reason? i’m definitely not done bruh

“What’s the best thing about life after bleeding?”

i’m bawling my eyes out, but in a really beautiful way. all these responses… all these women… what a ride.

“If I wasn’t aroused by the time things got physical then I could astral-projection myself into a more taboo situation”

girl byeeeee 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

she really needs to hate herself less.

i think this woman went to ithaca college. every one of her friends is queer.

i wanted to eat the world like a giant fruit!!!!!!!!

😟

“All this has happened while I was snapping the rubber band and cleaning and training. There was something very wrong with me.”

this book is a horror story about female aging and i am getting increasingly terrified 😭

(i’m 20 🧍🏾‍♀️)

“So much of what I had thought of as femininity was really just youth.”

that moment when you’re an unhinged 45-y/o woman and your cusp gen-z/millenial boy toy puts on frank ocean’s thinkin bout you while you spoon on the floor of your freshly renovated motel room.

lmao 😭

“Mostly you put concealer on and then later take it off and nothing life-changing happens inbetween.”

“I was *** tormented and I was mourning, but (and I held on to this like a buoy) I didn’t really care about him. I did not want to share my life with the boy who worked at the Hertz in Monrovia.”

lmao, again, pouring one out for KV.

“More and more I found myself siding with him against all the people in my life. Sure, he’s dumb. But is dumb bad? What even is dumb?”

Makes me think of KV. I wonder how much of a villain I am in his story. If I even make it in. I would keep the good times in a bottle if I could, but maybe that’s regressive. I don’t know.

You’ll never deserve my kindness. But I guess I can miss you all the same.

“Although maybe midlife crises were just poorly marketed, maybe each one was profound and unique and it was only a few silly men in red convertibles who gave them a bad name.”

a lot of “one day”s and future ideation about a partner she has right now. projecting current wants/desires into the future in perpetuity. the anti-thesis to my 2026 motto.

ALSO: “Sometimes my hatred of older women almost knocked me over, it came on so abruptly.”

lmao

Of course, I was always myself with Jordi.

Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say four sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

4 Stars for “The American Man: Age Ten”

Found a lot of its footing in its second half, kids are so strange and magical. They have their own inner worlds and opinions and everything. And they have so much imagination.

I miss my baby brother very much.

“I do it all the time… First I plan who I’d like to catch in it, and then we get started. Trespassers have to beware.”

Silly little boys 🥲

“All it takes is a dollar and a dream.”

God kids are so funny :)

“I think the most beautiful woman in the world is probably my mom.”