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I am intrigued by the politics of service. She means the way a dining experience is a microcosm for the dynamics of familiar’s and strangers coming together, under conditions in which one side of the encounter is somewhat indentured to the other, at least for the course of several hours.

I am intrigued by the politics of service. She means the way a dining experience is a microcosm for the dynamics of familiar’s and strangers coming together, under conditions in which one side of the encounter is somewhat indentured to the other, at least for the course of several hours.

I’m a girl with the pills of an old woman. I should be dating boys with weed breath but instead I fully personified my victim costume. I’m hanging by a fawn hanger at party city. You never wrote back.

You grew heavier and your make up grew heavier, more layers. But all that time he was dying, maybe. Missing you. Consigning himself, like a poet, to decades of brokenness. The swingset is rusted. The middle-class fence marks the boundaries of his prison. The wife is the warden. The children, well. They are the reason; it is for them that he chooses to remain unhappy, without you.

It can be said that one of the reasons you’re doing this is because it means you’ll see him about six more times. This is an outlandish notion only if you don’t know how a person can destroy you buy the simple act of disappearing.

Most people will agree, when a lover shuts down, refuses to meet you, doesn’t want his Oral-B back, doesn’t need his trail shoes, doesn’t return an email, goes out to buy another pair of trail shoes, for example, because that’s better than dealing with your mouse trap pain, it’s as though someone is freezing your organs. It’s so cold you can’t breathe.

It’s women, in many of the stories I’ve heard, who have greater hold over other women than men have. We can make each other feel dowdy, whorish, unclean, unloved, not beautiful. In the end, it all comes down to fear. Men can frighten us, other women can frighten us (). We pretend we want things we don’t want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.

Description of how women wait for men and their thinking...

President forfeit glory for blowjobs. Everything a man takes a lifetime to build he may gamble for a moment. () I think that the desire is so strong in the instant that everything else family, home, career melts down into a little liquid cooler and thinner than semen. Into nothing.

Men did not merely want. Men needed.

Leave it alone, he’s a poor old man. It’s a miracle he can get it up at his age.

The man following Lisa’s mother to work everyday...gross!

One inheritance of living under the male gaze for centuries is that heterosexual women often look at other women the way a man would.

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

Omg. The part where the baby boy dies...😭

This book is gut wrenching, yet I can’t stop reading it.