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“I suppose I think having a child is simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing. And I want that — to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care.”

“I’m afraid of imposing myself.”

“I know that if I really had any talent I would have done something with my life by now — I don’t delude myself about that. If I tried I’m sure I would fail and that’s why I’ve never tried.”

“What if these things [eternal progress toward some unspecified goal] just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always — just to live and be with other people ?”

“Isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person ?”

“But what would it be like to form a relationship with no preordained shape of any kind ? Just to pour the water and let it fall. I suppose it would take no shape, and run off in all directions.”

“I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape. So a mother’s relationship with her daughter is poured into a vessel marked ‘mother and child’, and the relationship takes the contours of its container and is held inside there, for better or worse. Maybe some unhappy friends would have been perfectly contented as sisters.”

“Because I know myself. I know what I feel and… what I have the capability to feel, I think. I mean, how do you know you won’t fall for a guy one day ?”

“That was what I wanted. That was what I’d had, once, maybe. I used to dream of a spellbinding, endless, forever romance. A beautiful story of meeting a person who could change your whole world. But now, I realised, friendship could be that too.”

“… you will meet someone you like one day. Everyone does.
No they don’t.
Not everyone.”

“While everyone else got to know each other, I did what I always did and stayed silent but attentive, smiling and nodding when people spoke but not really knowing how to get involved in any of the conversations.”

“If you really loved someone, I just think you wouldn’t really… care so much about things like that. I think everyone’s been kind of conditioned to be obsessed with it, when in actual fact… you know, it’s just a thing people do for fun. It’s not like you’d die without it.”

“Asexuality means I’m not sexually attracted to any gender. So I don’t look at men, or women, or anyone, and think wow I want to do sexy stuff with them.”

“I knew liking girls could be hard when you’re also a girl. […] But it was beautiful too. So fucking beautiful. Liking girls when you’re a girl was power. It was light. Hope. Joy. Passion.”

“But I would never know unless I persisted. Unless I tried.”

“I think it’s pretty amazing that you haven’t felt peer-pressured into doing anything by now. You haven’t made yourself do anything you didn’t want to do. You haven’t kissed anyone just because you’re scared of missing out. I think that’s on if the most mature things I’ve ever heard, actually.”

“I don’t think I need to try everything to know I don’t like it.”

“There was nothing wrong with me. Thos was just who I was.”

“Wanting and not wanting at the same time”

“i could tell that he was conventionally attractive, like you can tell pop stars or actors are attractive”