Reading Notes: Pew

Catherine Lacey

"I shut my eyes and imagined a life in which only our thoughts and intentions could be seen, where our bodies were not flesh but something else, something that was more than all this skin, this weight."

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"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

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"When someone says they heard something you did not hear, and they know you did not hear it, you cannot tell them they did not hear what they believe they heard. They have heard their desire to hear something, and desire always speaks the loudest. It is the loudest and most confounding emotion - wanting."