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“He’s not the same person he would have been if he had never known her. The way he thinks about a lot of things is her way of thinking about them, and his memories of a lot of other things are inseparable from memories of her.”

"And all that burgeoning physicality is held within yourself as a sort of secret, even as it is also the actual surface that you present to the world, so you're left absurdly exposed."

"Perhaps it's at that age, he thinks, that you and your body are not entirely identical, that you occupy the same space without being quite the same thing because some part of you seems to lag the transformation of your body"

“And just as when he was in there the whole world outside that room hardly seemed to exist, now that he has left it’s the opposite, and everything that happened in there, including the thoughts that he had, seems as vague and insubstantial as a half-forgotten dream.”

Finally, chapter 5 grabbed me again, I like seeing him experienced something more intense. The feelings are so subdued it kind of felt like reading a screenplay, which wasn’t unpleasant

“I don’t know if it’s love,” she says.
“Does it matter?” he asks.
“Does what matter?”
“Does it matter what word you use?”

Now thisss. Chapter 5 getting interesting again

“He finds it strange to think that it’s some chemical in his brain that makes him feel how he does about things.”