Quotes by Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

“Standing there small among the boxes of Kandy Kakes that rose like brownish cartoon cliffs around him, he resembled the videos I'd seen of sea lions floating angelically among the kelp, black bodie...”

“Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.”

“I did have a friend,' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.”

“There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,”

“He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.”

“Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?”

“I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.”

“These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without ot...”

“There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.”

“There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.”

“Outside the windows, everything is getting darker. First the yellow dies from the light, then the green and pink. The world is a blue version of itself, momentarily, before the blue snuffs out, too...”