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“If there was anything meaningful about aging, it was tunneling backward in time together, holding memories as a couple so they made a kind of safe basket in a rough and arbitrary world”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“in a patriarchy your body is technically not your own until you pass the reproductive age.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“The women I dated were often my age, that was fine. But the men always had to be older than me because if they were my same age then it became too obvious how much more powerful I was and this was a turnoff for both of us. Men needed a head start for it to be even.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“They were growing up. As we were becoming ourselves, they were, too, and the main thing, really, was not to steal their thunder.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Back when Harris and I slept together I would often whisper, Let’s dream the same dream, right after we turned out the lights. He took it as a sweet sign-off, but I yearned for this joint dream so hard my teeth hurt. He didn’t understand that you could create a world—a fantasy, a nightmare—and bring other people into it, not just artistically but in life. I was pretty good at getting people to meet me in my mind, but ultimately no one wanted to stay there.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
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