Sofia Seidel’s Reviews > Heart the Lover > Status Update

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"Pain turns women into birds, I think. I don't want to turn into a bird in a hospital hallway."

"I have the impulse to launch a real argument, a tirade about men and their ignorance of women's lived experiences and how we cope with so much they cannot understand, but they always make us feel in some sort of debt."

"Love is not the weakness. People get in its way. People are weak and perilous, not love."

all it took *was a postcard

all it took was less a postcard

"I wasn't an elephant. My heart had never been slow. I tore it up."

"All the people coming down the escalator now and standing at Carousel 3 waiting for their bags to appear on the conveyor belt are precious to me because they've been on a flight with Yash."

"he has only one recurring dream, that he is giving his fathers eulogy...'Its a very good speech. People love it. My mother and my stepmother are right up front and they are weeping and holding hands. I nail it, every time.' 'and your father is never there to hear it.' 'Nope. He's always dead.'"

"these decisions we make in youth are everything. You have no idea. Those feelings, they don't revenir. Pas comme ça... do not put this love second"