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“Eighty percent of relationship,” she said, “is tolerating difference.” “What’s the other twenty percent?” asked Frank. The woman shrugged. “Fucking.”
‘Love looks through spectacles that make copper look like gold, poverty like riches, and tears like pearls.”
To delight in another, to be delighted in turn by them, that was what she had always wanted.
When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light.
And then I let him piss in my mouth while his power bottom boyfriend watched! Another round of mimosas!
brb throwing up
“I brought you a couple of scarves so we can wrap your hair up afterward,” said Cleo. “And I picked up a bottle of witch hazel. I read it will get the glue out gently.”
dude how could someone hate her
Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up.
God, she loved the last days of summer in the city.
Miriam continued to do most of the talking while they ate. She had been asked to contribute to a psychological study on childhood trauma and masturbation and was regaling them with the story of her own first orgasm, which she achieved at the precocious age of four and a half.
what
“The best thing you ever did,” he said, “was Cleo.”
frank might not always be the best husband but he wins for this
Why did she feel the need to make everyone, even this waiter, like her? What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.
Okay, so I am not beautiful or blond or British. But I can make jokes, be nice to your mother, and give a decent blow job. That’s what I got.
“I should have known she wasn’t right for me,” Levi says. “When she designed our band flyer using Comic Sans.”
“If we ever have a kid, she is going to be so spoiled,” said Cleo. “You … you want children?”
how do you not know this about each other
“I think the real bar of adulthood is the willingness to touch your own eyeballs on a daily basis.”
“It’s depression!” Quentin shrugged. “Best diet I know.”
“She is warm like the sun.”
Jacky shook her head and smiled. “He wasn’t around enough to miss. That was what I found the hardest. I wasn’t close to my dad, and then he died. End of story. At least while he was alive, there was this hope that one day that could change. And then that hope was gone, you know? That’s what I grieved, I guess.”
“Oh, you can start very simple,” he says. “Two of my favorite prayers are ‘Help me’ and ‘Thank you.’ ” “Those are prayers?” “Those are excellent prayers.”
“Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus, which means ‘earth’? That’s how love is supposed to feel.” “Like hummus?” “Like earth. It grounds you. All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that’s not real. It should hold you like the earth.”
Frank always thought that Cleo’s main gift was her way of being. She was uniquely attractive, not just in her looks but in her essence. She had a way of bringing the light into a room with her, like a window being flung open.
But the people who did get that love, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they’re not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it’s not because they’re not interesting. They just don’t feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don’t have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.”
“The shoes didn’t fit anymore. And when I stood still, Eleanor was there standing with me. And I think you deserve to be with someone like that, who can provide that safety and that stillness for you in a way I never could.
