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“Maggie, your hypothetical mother.
Maggie, who would have loved you as best she could, if she could.
Maggie, who can’t. Maggie, who’s sorry.”


“She didn’t just want the choice to have an abortion.
She wanted the choice to have a baby as well.”

“I never wanted to stop you from acting on your desires.’

‘But that’s what it means to love someone. It means to lose things. It means to have deep needs that go unfulfilled, because the person you love is most important. That’s love.”

I’m so tired of constantly screaming My Shayla while reading this book

“He thinks again: this is a significant event. He is so busy reminding himself of the event’s significance that the significance becomes abstract.”

“He doesn’t want his identity to be valid. He doesn’t want his feelings to matter. He doesn’t want to change his name, or his life, and to say, ‘I feel so seen,’ because Ed doesn’t want to be seen at all.”

“For Louis, there is never enough time. Every day is packed with activities and none of these activities accomplish anything. He ends each day as he begins, tired, resigned – somewhat happy – trying to embrace the conditions of his life.”

“He loves life and knows that it’s on its way out. He wants to embrace it while it’s still around. He wants, in fact, a lot of it, and ideally all at once.”

STOPP

“Phil’s body is an illiterate body. It’s a body that doesn’t speak the language. His mind is never not describing the world, an over-articulate mind, a mind that is hyperactive in its desire to narrate, but his body is dumbstruck, bumbling, upset with itself like a child who hasn’t yet learned to speak”

“All you have to do is focus on the details of each second, which are nearly always easier to take than the bigger picture. ”


“That’s when she knew that she loved him: when she started thinking of his death. She knew she’d found something good when she knew she couldn’t stand to lose it.”

I love everybody in this book

“He found himself to be repulsive, deeply so, and he used sex as a way of feeling desirable. He would lie there and try to see himself through the eyes of men who wanted him so that he might want himself as well.”


“He had wanted the guarantee of love, someone to protect and feel protected by. These are now desperately humiliating things to have wanted.”

“Lately, each time Ed has said goodbye to a friend, he’s taken to wondering How many hours together do we have left?”


“Phil is always demanding that mundane activities take on a significance above their station”

“She thinks of the purple lumps as if they were fatty feelings that wanted out. She believes that every time the words gathered in her throat and got ready to explode, they left behind a physical residue and that’s what made her sick.”

my shayla dios

“If the object of your desire were within perpetual reach, it would be worthless. You must only ever graze it. A whiff of perfume on a busy street: gone before you knew it was there, and then, you look around in dismay, in ecstasy,”