Zana’s Reviews > I Love You Don't Die > Status Update

“Because in corporate America, what is a community if not a bull’s-eye for profit? A community is worth deeming a community only if it has money to spend.”

Hard hitting quote

“Jen had once asked her if she wished she were more Asian, as if the level of Asian could be scientifically measured by a thermometer held to her forehead.”

Damn

“During late nights and early mornings in the university studio, lampposts twinkling outside the large windows, he’d hallucinate taking off his clothes and lying in the divot of the body molded by his own hands to thrust, ejaculate over the clay, and work his fluids into moisturization....”

Boy what the hell

‘Anthony had been tasked with a campaign celebrating Black History Year, Black History Life, rather than a Black History Month, and his idea had been to create a limited-edition line of urns printed with the last words of famous Black leaders, activists, and artists, such as James Brown’s “I’m going away tonight.”’

Again, what the hell lol

“...the bisexual urn with purple-, blue-, and pink-painted handprints ornamenting the surface; the yellow nonbinary urn crisscrossed with white and black leather harness O-ring straps; the transgender urn with polymer 3D-printed clouds and a blue, pink, and white rainbow pasted onto its body.”

What the hell

‘“Friend breakups are just as hard as romantic breakups.”

“Friend breakups are worse.”

“There’s no manual for it.”’

So true unfortunately

“...Vicky, in a high-pitched, fake-casual sort of voice, had hinted how Jen could go pick another partner if Vicky failed to measure up to her standards, which confused Jen, because she was a freshman in college—she had no standards for herself or for anyone in her life.”

Damn girl

“She could never date Vicky seriously, even if she wasn’t straight. And Jen detests how, with this thought, she can then hear Vicky’s voice arguing against her, that straightness didn’t even exist, that straightness was a scam, a compulsion, a method of living, one that anybody could break out of if they just tried.”

What in the quarter life crisis

“The good times were so good that they made her wonder if she should have just dated Vicky instead of Eric.”

Okay girl

“...She could not believe she had ever been seized by the passionate throes of company culture enough to take part in office affinity groups. Why were coworkers always searching for community in the workplace? It was the textbook definition of being paid to be friends—and true friends would never come from capital.”

Corporate girlies unite!!