What It's Like in Words Quotes

“I didn't think about my pleasure because it wasn't my pleasure I was addicted to.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I had never felt sexy before, but I believed him because, at this point, I was what he told me.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I thought about how it felt when he smiled at me, or rather, how it felt to be the person he had chosen to smile at.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I told her I was doing really well.
“I feel so free!”
She said that was because he was a narcissist.
I told her that I can see it now, I really can.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I wanted everything. He wasn't saying it in words, but he was saying it in something like them: he wanted that too.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I would have cut my own arm so that he could heal the wound.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I wanted to hibernate in his voice.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“Sometimes the good bits of people aren't the rule, they're the exception.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“When a person takes care of one problem area, the other problem areas take care of themselves.
I asked where she heard that. She said that she was told it by a dermatologist about skin care but insisted that it applied to life.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“Everything was almost familiar. Memories hung like undeveloped photographs, and I closed my eyes to see them properly.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“We opened the door to the beach house, and the smell was familiar, but then it changed and became unfamiliar the way that a word did when you focused on it. It looked like a sketch artist's impression of the house that we used to stay in.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I considered how he might feel when he saw me. So much of my happiness depended on his expression. Would he frown or smile? If the former, I would dance on eggshells of the evening and try to please him like there was a gun to my head. The latter, I would be happy but know that it wouldn't last, would clutch the happiness like it was a bird in my hands until it suffocated. And he would tell me that it was my fault, that I killed the bird, but he would have been the one who put it there, placed his hand over mind, and squeezed.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I was trading my body for the hope of his heart and he was saying yes to a cup of tea that he didn't really want because someone else was making it.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“...(he told me that he loved the Kenyan peanut butter, which made me happy, because it felt like he was saying something that he loved about me)...”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I didn't recognize myself, but I still felt seen.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I didn't know anything about the other girls he had been with, but I wanted to be different. If they found him a nightmare, then I would understand him.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“Well, that's different, he said warmly, and the desire to please him bloomed like an addiction.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“January moved dark and quick, and erased December.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“But when I opened my phone, there was a message from him. The air was sucked from the sky. There he was, the letters of his name. Like seeing a teacher outside of school.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words

“I didn’t need to text him back. I didn’t want to text him back.”
― Eliza Moss, What It's Like in Words