The Seep
Chana Porter
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Their little party was completed by Katharine and Laura, the friendly, easygoing lesbians from Tennessee. They came with copious amounts of alcohol (one can always depend on the lapsed Christians to bring the bar): pale ale for the butches, and drinkable red wine.”
“Be present. Eventually, the conversation will flow to other things—typically, to The Past and How Great It Was, Even Though We Didn’t Know It at the Time, and The Future, that shimmering, mercurial beast, constantly breaking our hearts.”
“All I have is my uncertainty. And really, that’s all I’ve ever had. Everything else was a lie.”
“…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown.”
“through the boredom and the freedom of unexpected immortality.”
“about why humans are so focused on the past and the future, all at once. it’s about learning! that’s the great gift of linear time! you can look back on your experiences in the past and use them to make choices for the future. time is embodied learning! that’s why memory exists! why failures are never truly failures, and mistakes are always glorious! no matter what, no matter what, no matter what, no matter what!”
“Why do you feel like you need to have a job in order to be part of this world?”
“When the aliens first made contact, Trina and her not-yet-wife, Deeba,”
“She couldn’t bear the platitudes of the people at the hospital—time is the only healer, it gets better, blah blah blah. Time did not make it better. Time made it worse, just like it made everything worse. Most horrifically of all, people expected her to be over it by now, as if her grief had a neat expiration date like the carton of milk she had left on the counter a week ago.”
“People need to give each other space to make choices. We can't live solely for other people. Even if it hurts them. Even when it breaks your heart.”
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Book Keywords:
depression, grief
