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‘Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,’ she used to say. ‘Why would I want to be the world if couldn’t touch the world with all of my senses intact?’

…but those white dads can completely disappear without ever leaving the living room. They can just BLEND into their chairs. They become their chairs.”

“I was going to yell at her for being shallow. But then I realized that she was being my friend. Being a really good friend, in fact. I’d been thinking about her breasts and she’d been thinking about my whole life. I was the shallow one.”

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”

Very interesting read so far, but also depressing.