Deep Cuts

by Holly Brickley

Zoe said happiness was better before Reagan and Thatcher.

Zoe would live kneecap

It’s not ideal for a young girl to discover Letterman before the patriarchy,

LOL

It’s that track five or eight that you skip for the first month because it’s too grand and sad, and then later it becomes your favorite.

LOL

“Why does the girl get that line, though?” I said. “Why can’t it be you who said that? We both talked about kids that day. You brought it up, actually.”

WOMPWOMP

“I always find it curious when a man and a woman can be best friends. I was in that situation once, in college, and I was just desperately, pathetically in love with the girl.”

Girl wake up theyre saying it to you now

Presently Percy is reading Didion in bed with her shirt off (hot).

Ok its fantasy of mine for a man to admire me doin my hobbies while topless

whereas Percy does not miss anyone except Joe who is a loser so whatever.

HA

The lobby had tufted couches and lots of those lightbulbs with the filaments showing.

Is she autistic genuinely asking?

“Fuck him,” he said. “I’m your boyfriend.”

THEY ALWAYS COME BACK

“Wow. You really are just a dude, aren’t you? Following your dick around like a blind man’s walking stick. If you put that thing anywhere near me again, I will throw up on it.”

I don’t think it should count as infidelity when it’s with the person you were always meant to be with.”

Holy fuck

there were better men out there, interesting musical men who could talk forever.

Girl im tellin you theyre not

ileanpercy: ooooh he’s making you blame yourself! like a republican! right? ringfingrr: omg do you ever forget anything

Because where do you put the love you make, if you’re all alone? You don’t give it to yourself, in my experience. You take it out with the trash every day until it slowly stops regenerating inside you, and friends, let me tell you, that is no damn way to live.

K, I wrote back. Probably won’t stick around tho—I’m here on a work trip. Noooo at least come back for a hug, came the reply.

This is the most triggering

“Amazing. That is the best ‘fuck you’ in the history of ‘fuck yous.’ Like, okay, you don’t want to kiss me? I’m gonna make you sing about this mistake for the rest of your life, dude. You’re going to be singing about this at the fucking Troubadour in a fucking decade, dude.”

Honestly, how many different ways is it even possible for the same two people to break each other’s hearts?”

“Come over,” he said. “I want to suffer you.”

I clamped on his giant headphones. He was still inside me; I was sitting on top.

Actual fantasy

“You think the songs will come between us again.” “They will,” I said. And then I grinned, took his face in my hands. “But they’ll be so good.”