30 Quotes by Kate Scelsa

Probably not great to call a nine-year-old a prostitute," Mira said."Fine. Filthy whore, then.

In a really good thrift store you feel like you’re in a room with all of these stories, and it’s up to you to go and find the stories that you want to bring home with you. And then when you wear the clothes, they help you tell a new story, but they’re bringing that old part with them and with you and you’re benefiting from that in a way that you can’t even really understand.

Love remembers the places where it touched down. You can follow it back to them.

Je verbonden voelen met andere mensen houdt bepaalde risico’s in. Vooral als je je hele persoonlijkheid al had afgestemd op alleen-zijn. Niet dat het een opwindend bestaan was, maar in mijn eenzaamheid was ik van niemand afhankelijk.

Surviving herself was a bittersweet victory. It meant that some part of her had lost.

The past couple years had brought this newly womanly body along with them. Mira only wore skirts now as a rule, because pants made her feel stuck into someone else’s idea of a shape. Ad her shape often felt like a fluid thing, this way one day and something else the next. She wished that she could pin it down, the watery and unmanageable way that she was growing. She wondered if other people felt solid in their skin.

I can see the future. Oh look! I see us! There we are. We look great.

She had decided that because she couldn’t love her body, she would try to love what she put on it.

I had a sudden urge of anger. I couldn’t stand it anymore, being asked to accept that I had no control over who left me, over our lives. There had to be something that I could do.