“We are asked to understand our lives under such impossibly convoluted conditions.”
I can’t believe that a single book has convinced me to temporarily delete Instagram, rethink my views on modern feminism, boycott Amazon, and solidify the suspicion I had that I don’t want to marry. These essays are unbelievable. Read this book.

“Ordinary acts take on strange shadows when viewed up close.”

This one messed me up, on par with a little life. Ridiculously good writing but really hurt my heart

The writing doesn’t evoke many feelings and I can’t say it was actually thrilling. At one point after a particularly surprising moment, the narrator says “mic drop” and it just completely took me out of the moment.