G’s Reviews > Turtles All the Way Down > Status Update

i wondered if i fucked it up. but if i hadn’t done it, i’s have wondered something else. life is a series of choices between wonders

you can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really. just like touching someone else’s body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body

i felt the need to board up the windows of my self

“Everyone seemed to assume I knew what the hell a tuatara was”

my exact thoughts while reading this section 😭

“My stomach was kind of churning, but I couldn’t tell why. I never understood my body. Was it scared or excited?”

“The things that make other people nervous never scared me. I’m not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn’t know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn’t this”