Mostly Dead Things
Kristen Arnett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We spent so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized they were busy searching for the same things in us.”
“Need, my father had written. To need meant to be vulnerable. It was one of the scariest things I could imagine. Needing anything meant you were open to invasion. It meant you had no control of yourself.”
“You don't know what love is, I thought, wanting to smack him. Love was the steady burn of acid indigestion. Love was a punch in the gut that ruptured your spleen. Love was a broken telephone that refused to dial out.”
“You don’t know what love is, I thought, wanting to smack him. Love was the steady burn of acid indigestion. Love was a punch in the gut that ruptured your spleen. Love was a broken telephone that refused to dial out. Milo told Brynn he loved her and I could see from the look on his face he thought the words were a magical incantation. Say the word love and it’s there for you; say the word love and the other person feels it too. What I should have told him that day: love makes you an open wound, susceptible to infection. But he was young then and so was I, and I wanted their happiness more than my own. So I swallowed my pain and let myself pretend love could flourish if I didn’t stand in its way.”
“What I should have told him that day: love makes you an open wound, susceptible to infection. But he was young then and so was I, and I wanted their happiness more than my own. So I swallowed my pain and let myself pretend love could flourish if I didn't stand in its way.”
“She wheeled around, chin set angrily. "My entire adult life that man told me what to do. What I could like, what was acceptable to talk about. It was like living inside a clenched fist.”
“Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. —Thomas Harris”
“It hadn't felt necessary to learn more about my mother outside of her existence on the periphery of my life. She cleaned our clothes and bought us groceries. Made our meals, mopped and dusted, trimmed the tree. My father was the one I'd admired. He was the one I'd wanted to be like.”
“We spent so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized that they were busy searching for the same things in us.”
“We spend so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized they were busy searching for the same things in us.”
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Book Keywords:
housework, identity, life-lessons, internalized-misogyny, introspection, vulnerability, division-of-labor, connection, intimacy, self-love, care-work
