28 quotes found
“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.”
“And who is to say that loving a person isnt just loving the idea of that person and not the actual person, all these incomprehensible clots of flesh with all their years gone by and vanished, all t...”
“Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all.”
“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.”
“She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.”
“These men, these bitches of their boneless limbs – didn’t they know being a woman meant being at war?”
“The feeling doesn’t always match the loss. Sometimes the bigger ones are easier to take, like ocean waves. Smaller, human losses, the ones that carry a sense of fault, a choice, a wrong turn – they...”
“And who is to say that loving a person isn’t just loving the idea of that person and not the actual person, all these incomprehensible clots of flesh with all their years gone by and vanished, all ...”
