Kyna (Wright) Desrosiers’s Reviews > I Am You > Status Update

“I painted all the apologies we owed one another, as any two who have lived side by side owe. I painted the life we’d secured and it’s unknotting. I painted all that I didn’t know and couldn’t say and the future I finally understood we wouldn’t have.” (p.259)

“When the mind is askew, there comes a chance for clarity while holding an instrument of precision.” (p.259)

“But if you’ve never cared enduringly for another, than I can’t suppose you know the ways love can also be stingy and mean.” (p. 202)

Crying at 2AM over this exchange:

“I can’t paint anymore.”
“But we can”

oh my, that is LOVE 😭

“I knew all too well the relief in being free of what you’ve always been. Relief to shed all expectations that drags heavy at the hem of oneself.” (p.146)

“There is a powerful freedom in having secrets, controlling what is known to whom…and it became clear that this was another power. The freedom to be seen. For my worth to be known” (p.136)

yass Gerta finally getting her mf props but I feel like Maria is not gonna like that for too long

I am completely enamored by Gerta/Pieter & Maria

“We don’t have to understand it all, just protect it.”
“From what’s outside?”
“Yes, them. But mostly from ourselves.”

“No bother. You’ll learn your own loveliness”

“Beauty is a transformation, often a messy one at that.” (p. 37)