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Milk Fed QUOTES

Milk Fed QUOTES

1 " The heart gets wounded—so what? I thought. I’d seen all the plays. I should have been prepared. Love goes. But what I hadn’t known was how good the love would feel when it was there, like a hymn moving through me all the time. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

2 " At times I'd felt courageous on the journey, but it was borrowed courage. Now we were here, and neither of us had a plan. Was she going to abandon me, leave me stranded in my body? I'd be in exile with a stomach that demanded more of everything. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

3 " Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

4 " Oh, my daughter,” I said. “You will forget that I am here. This is the way of human beings, to forget. But you found your way back to me once and so can find your way back again, because I am always here. The world will hurt you again and again. You will hurt yourself again and again. And when it does, and when you do, you will remember me again and again. You will drop to your knees. You will hold yourself. You will be your own daughter again. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

5 " My mother had never known me either, though it wasn't because I hadn't given her a chance. I'd given her a lot of chances. What was saddest was that she didn't seem to want to know me, not as I was on the inside. I wasn't even sure if she could grasp that I had an inside, that I was real. Sometimes it seemed impossible that she had ever given birth to me at all. Other times, it made perfect sense that I had lived inside her for so long. It explained why she could only see me as an extension of herself. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

6 " What I wanted most was for this certified hot person to see a hotness in me, thereby verifying, once and for all, that I was hot. It wasn’t that civilians didn’t find me attractive. But for a licensed hot person to verify me? That was the real shit. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

7 " Did anyone genuinely like anything? So much art was bad. I preferred the work of dead people. At least the dead weren't on Twitter "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

8 " I felt that our kissing could sustain the ritual of women loving women for eons to come. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

9 " They say the perfect is the enemy of the good, that if you strive for perfection you will overlook the good. But I did not agree. I didn't like the good. The good was just mediocre. I wanted to go beyond mediocre. I wanted to be exceptional. I did not want to be medium-size. I wanted to be perfect. And by perfect, I meant less. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

10 " You were going to the hardware store for milk again,” said Dr. Mahjoub. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

11 " I smelled something roasting, some kind of meat, and immediately thought, Turn around Run. The intimacy of it, the smell of another family’s life, was terrifying. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

12 " This was the thing about boundaries: they made sense in therapy, but when you tried to implement them in the real world, people had no idea what you were talking about. Or, deep down they knew exactly what you were talking about and immediately set to work reinforcing their case of denial. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

13 " It seemed that as long as I wasn’t actually having sex with a person, I could get off to them. But once they embraced me it was over. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

14 " in their equation of thinness with goodness, my mother and Ana were so like-minded. My mother persuaded me to stay thin by insulting me. Ana did it by insulting everyone but me. This absence of rejection felt like an embrace. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

15 " People in LA were always recommending things that were more about themselves than the recipient. They recommended obsessively⁠—films, Netflix series⁠—as though their association with a piece of media imbued them with sex appeal, intelligence, an irresistible whimsy. When I felt a recommendation coming on, I'd lie and say I'd already seen the thing: just so I didn't have to hear the plot explained. Did anyone genuinely like anything? So much art was bad. I preferred the work of dead people. At least the dead weren't on Twitter. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

16 " But it was better to stay in bed and dream of her than to be together in a realm where we had to pretend that physically we were strangers to each other. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

17 " There was something nice about being forced to be done with everything by sunset, to be excused from life. It was like a teacher’s note from the ultimate authority. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

18 " The basement was already prepared for me. A sofa bed had been pulled out and made up with a soft pink-and-green blanket, old but comfortable. Everything was like that in this house: soft, old, and comfortable. It reminded me that for some people life was about the tactile, about relaxation, about feeling good. This could be the Schwebels’ rhetorical motto: Why wouldn’t you take three pillows? Why wouldn’t you use an extra blanket? Why wouldn’t you just be comfortable? "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

19 " I didn’t like myself enough to suck my own tits. "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed

20 " Cait sensed my reticence and became clingy. The less I texted her, the more heart emojis and u ok?? messages she sent. It was like being asphyxiated by a part of my own self—the need for approval and validation I so despised. More of me? That was the last thing I wanted! "

― Melissa Broder , Milk Fed