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“‘rory, you don’t get to choose only the me that’s most comfortable for you and call it love.’”

the descriptions in this book……,.beautiful

“i couldn’t have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.”

“the kiss lasted three seconds, maybe four, but it set everything else in motion. my life was a painting i’d been staring at upside-down up until that moment, that moment when leila wandered in and flipped it right-side up for me. just like that. everything clicked into place, the picture came into clarity.”

‘“i cry all the time,” … “i hate it. it embarrasses me. i am not fragile, but sometimes my body just cries and i can’t help it. it’s a betrayal. like someone tickling you, you laugh even when you don’t want to, even when it it hurts. that’s how i cry.”’

“she’d understood even then that he was deeply, magnetically pathetic.”

“On Wednesday, I grew older. I added another year.” love reading this when tomorrow, which is a Wednesday, is also my birthday, and thus, a day I will also grow older by adding another year.

“Even though I’d been mad, I now felt the surprising urge to defend him, or to at least complicate things.”

“‘He really likes me’, I thought, but I didn’t feel what I expected, the initial giddy thrill. Instead, there was fright, and I knew then that I stood on the edge of an unfamiliar precipice.”

what hunger.

can’t a girl just eat some raw meat in peace?

“…I saw my fat fuck of a self. I saw my patients at the hospital seeing me, hating me and loving me, a hundred times mistaking me, not one ever once understanding who I really am. I saw little white girls seeing me and thinking I was dumb. I saw my father the week before he died swaddling me in a baby blanket and I saw my mother seeing me graduate from nursing school and I burned with love.”