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I’ve always considered writing a solitary act. But now, my interest in David is coinciding with my desire to try something new, to feel more secure in my place in the world.

Wanting men has never come naturally to me. Finding them attractive, yes. Passively. But I think I feel, like, active desire right now. I’ve never felt that for a man before. I’m so thrown of by it. - p32

“It’s okay to be into him. It’s also okay to want someone and to be thrown off by it. - p33

Someday I’d like to be given credit for all the times I have not said something that I could have said.

Because one of life’s frustrations is that sometimes, it’s best to say nothing.

‘But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness.’

‘whenever my mother kept him waiting he would frown down at it and give it a tap.
But when I was a little girl, I imagined he was trying to time move faster-to bring mother before us instantly,’

‘But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness.’

‘whenever my mother kept him waiting he would frown down at it and give it a tap.
But when I was a little girl, I imagined he was trying to time move faster-to bring mother before us instantly,’