The Float Test Quotes

“When Brian and I had Cassie, I saw how his love was less specific than it felt when I met him. That it wasn’t me he loved so much as he was good at loving the people he had chosen to sit inside the roles where love was meant to be felt.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, The Float Test: A Layered Novel about Betrayal, Love, and Climate Change, Discover the Kenners' Secrets

“said Dad. Dad was right. Fred was often kinder to people who were not our family. She was also much better at the sort of caring, loving, that one didn’t have to do up close. She donated money to abortion funds, grassroots campaigns in other states, climate actions (money, Dad would say, that she didn’t have to give away); she felt so sure of her opinions, got high, likely, on the pulsing, coursing rush of her own rightness. She teared up, in the morning, listening to NPR, diligently composted and then, week after week, forgot to bring it to the drop-off in Union Square. Mom would call after spending any time in Fred and David’s tiny apartment: The smell, though! But Fred got antsy, anxious, when she was asked to perform that same caring up close.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, The Float Test: A Layered Novel about Betrayal, Love, and Climate Change, Discover the Kenners' Secrets