Other People's Butterflies Quotes

“I can hear him breathing steadily, and after a moment I realise that we are breathing perfectly in sync. This is going to sound weird, but I feel like we are a pair of lungs, separate and connected at the same time. And this is something I like. Something I want. Maybe with just one other person, or maybe with a few people, or maybe with everyone in the world.”
― Cora Ruskin, Other People's Butterflies

“I want more.”
“Like, more of this? To spend more time with me? Watch more movies together and have more conversations that seem really childish but are actually kind of thought-provoking?”
“Well, yes, all of that.”
“I want that too.” My eyes are stinging, because I wish more than anything that we could leave the conversation there. “But I don’t think you really want more. I think you want different.”
― Cora Ruskin, Other People's Butterflies

“You can make the most probing questions sound casual while you've got a mouthful of food.”
― Cora Ruskin, Other People's Butterflies

“I want that strange feeling at the end of a movie, when you emerge from the darkness with a crowd of other people and it's like waking up from a collective dream. A weird kind of intimacy.”
― Cora Ruskin, Other People's Butterflies