Alli Berger’s Reviews > Impossible Creatures > Status Update

“‘You don’t look a day older.’ ‘You do.’”🫶🏼

“‘What does it look like?’…her fingers were spotted with blood where the needle had slipped….’I think it looks like you’re trying to donate blood very, very slowly’”

“…a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. It’s a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we’ve chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship… you need it only once-so that you may know what your human heart is capable of.”