We Had to Remove This Post Quotes

“People act like it’s a perfectly normal question, but how normal is a question when you’re expecting the answer to be gruesome?”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“We cleaved apart cleanly like two halves of a cake, the knife separating us with careful precision so that none of the marzipan roses were damaged.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“Maybe falling in love isn’t filling up a loyalty card with feelings and actions so much as just adding two things together: desire plus fear. The desire had appeared fairly suddenly—ever since that first kiss, really. The fear, on the other hand, grew gradually: fear that she wouldn’t be coming to the sports bar that night, fear that we wouldn’t end up kissing, fear that she’d change her mind. Those were pretty much the stages of falling in love for me.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“maybe questions don’t stem from interest in the other person so much as curiosity about the lives we might have led”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“we’d have the kinds of long conversations that reveal that the amount of love you feel for each other isn’t exactly commensurate with the amount of information you have about each other:”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“She sounds like she wasn’t expecting us, like we’re two acquaintances from her salsa dancing class who she only invited out of politeness and, shit, now suddenly we’re the first guests to arrive at her party.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,...”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather than "How is that girl doing now? Were you able to help her, by any chance?”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“I've always felt protected by the dark, like it swallows up the monsters instead of hiding them.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“So what kinds of things did you see?”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“They were nice pictures—good lighting, but not posed; maybe her parents had a knack for photographic timing, or maybe Nona was a girl who knew when to look away in order to look like herself.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“The more you get to know each other, the more awkward the sex becomes,”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“Yes, I think I felt like her words would leave dark streaks on the tiled walls, send raw sewage flowing back up the shower drain; something I’d been afraid of for weeks, a looming disaster that had been lurking in acai berries and meditation apps all this time, but that I’d managed to keep at bay with feigned indifference: Baby, stop, I thought now that the two of us were sitting on the cold bathroom floor. Just stop, please.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“The platform doesn’t allow people to post things like “All Muslims are terrorists,” because Muslims are a PC, a “protected category,” just like women, gay people, and, believe it or not, Mr. Stitic, heterosexuals. “All terrorists are Muslims,” on the other hand, is allowed, because terrorists are not a PC and besides, Muslim isn’t an offensive term.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“Sure, the work we did was fucking awful but we could handle it, because we, Sigrid, the guys, and me, we were a team, and we’d get each other through it somehow.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

“Maybe falling in love isn't filling up a loyalty card with feelings and actions so much as just adding two things together: desire plus fear. The desire had appeared fairly suddenly - ever since that first kiss, really. The fear, on the other hand, grew gradually: fear that she wouldn't be coming to the sports bar that night, fear that we wouldn't end up kissing, fear that she'd change her mind. Those were pretty much the stages of falling in love for me.”
― Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post