Quotes from Zoe Whittall

When I tell her I feel like the other woman, she laughs, that's just learned sexist bullshit. We are all in charge of our own bodies and what we decide to do with them. We are all our own. I believed it when she said it, like she'd opened up a new valve that had been stuck. I felt unconfined and open-minded and totally confused. Intellectually, non-monogamy made complete sense; emotionally, it felt like sandpaper across my eyelids.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother. "My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.

When someone is your husband or father, that's simply who they are. You don't stop to question much about them, unless you're given reason to, and they'd never been given reason to.

George is essentially a very good person'" Joan said, "But that is one of those meaningless sentences. What is a good person? Under the worst of circumstances, who can say what we would do? For all we know, we might be the worst people on earth.

Sometimes being an adult doesn't prevent you from making terrible choices

These kids have no innocence anymore

we shift around on a seesaw moral continuum for our whole lives. Nobody stays the same!

Well, parental control is somewhat illusory, right?

the feeling of being ugly in the body that is probably the most beautiful you will ever have

Compassion- it has its limits

Imagine the person you love and trust becoming a different person overnight. What would you do?

If this were a chapter in your memoir, wouldn't future you want you to go?

There are worse things than telling a lie.

It felt like the times were good, like we were remembering a time before Rachel died, even though things were never this good then, because they were just normal, and ordinary is never the kind if good you remember.

It's so aggravating the way people assume that just because I like having sex with some people, it means I like having sex with all people.

I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.