Bliss Montage
Ling Ma
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It doesn’t take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone’s gaze. It’s not totally accurate to say that I felt seen. It was more that: Beheld by her, I learned how to become myself. Her interest actualized me.”
“Because people change. Feelings can be temporary and fickle. That’s why it’s important to anchor intent to something serious, extravagant.”
“A woman sat alone at her dining table, reading and drinking a cocktail. It’d be such a relief to be older already, unburdened by the pressure to leverage your ever-fleeting beauty for whatever.”
“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a vocation, a relationship, a life. She intended to avoid that slow calcification for as long as possible—if only by refraining from making any crucial choices. In other words, she was moving back home.”
“Another self was needed to move into the future.”
“I really, really want to catch him. I want to masticate him with my teeth. I want to barf on him and coat him in my stinging acids. I want to unleash a million babies inside him and burden him with their upbringing.”
“Her family would only wound her, nothing more, so that she went through this life maimed, but still she went through life.”
“Whatever I felt, whatever this feeling was inside of me, there is no place for it. There is no place for it to go, and I would have to carry it around inside of me for a long time, so long that it would fossilize and become a part of me.”
“What if I dissected my feelings, pulled them apart and brutalized them so that he would know they were true? Is this enough? I'd ask. How about this? They would explode and drip over everything like bodily fluids and finally he'd be forced to look away.”
Except where otherwise noted, all rights reserved to the author(s) of this book (mentioned above). The content of this page serves solely as promotional material for the aforementioned book. If you enjoyed these quotes, you can support the author(s) by acquiring the full book from Amazon.
Book Keywords:
self-understanding, income, moving-back-home, self, discretionary-income, women, beauty, getting-by, vulnerability, analysis, choices, regular-schedule, becoming-yourself, actualization, regularity, aging, internalizing, jobs, middle-aged-women, becoming, life, dissection, being-seen, getting-older, old-women, vocation, doing-ok, schedule, relationships, feelings, work, graduation, calcification, feeling-seen
