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

‘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!!

‘...She had, after all, filled out the diversity questionnaire when she first arrived, checking yes to the question “Are you of the LGBTQ + community?” A week later, she had received an email inviting her to the monthly Onwards Pride meetings, two of which—both attended by fewer gays than straight allies who wanted an excuse to skip work for an hour and eat rainbow-dyed baked goods...’

Corporate be like

“...I had believed stardom awarded immortality, so how could I, Ernie Hayworth, have suffered death? I had been jarringly made aware I could die at any time, and so I went to India, where I learned my fear could lead to awakening. Yes. I had been guided to the light, learning I must prepare for death or never truly live.”

What in the eat pray love

“Vicky had begun watching clips of people dying every night. Her favorite macabre bedtime stories became people falling off building roofs, wasting to nothing in hospital beds, wandering astray on expeditions gone wrong....”

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