What I know and what I feel are two very different things. - Roxane Gay

Because I am not a touchy-feely person, I always feel this light shock, this surprise, really, when my skin comes into contact with another person’s skin. Sometimes that shock is pleasant, like Oh, here is my body in the world. Sometimes, it is not. I never know which it will be.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities.

She was smart enough to want more but tired enough to accept the way things were.