You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Alexandra Kleeman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Loving someone was no guarantee of how they would treat you. All it did was raise the stakes.”
“I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.”
“People were such fragile things: they only existed from a certain angle, at a certain scale and spacing.”
“Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?”
“I found the brightness of the outdoors, rectangled through large glass panels.”
“It all smelled like beauty products, that anonymous female scent that we rub onto ourselves to blend into a wet, aggregate femininity, to smell like a person but not like any person in particular.”
“He must have a lover of his own, some man or woman or animal whose absence hurt like a presence, some person that he poured himself into like a mold to remind himself of what he was.”
“Why can't you just let people have their own inner lives, as long as they're doing pretty much what they're supposed to with their outer lives?”
“These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.”
“Sometimes a face could be so simple: even a couple of dark spots on a lighter surface or a dark oval in the distance might be a face. An electrical socket could be a face, a mailbox or a couple of punctuation marks could congeal suddenly into something with an expression. Our faces, on the other hand, were made of hundreds of different parts, each part separate and tenuous and capable of being ugly, each part waiting for a product designed to isolate and act upon it.”
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