Mar
14
“He realized what had been disturbing him about her. With other women whom he had been with in similar situations, he had experienced a relaxing sense of emptiness within them that made it easy for him to get inside them, and once there, smear himself all over their innermost territory until it was no longer theirs but his… this exasperating girl, on the other hand, contained a tangible somethingness that she not only refused to expunge, but that he banged into with every attempt to invade her… Her willful, masculine, stupid somethingness had obstructed their mutual pleasure and satisfaction. The only course of action left was hostility.”
Gaitskill (via natashavc) (via ninastotler)
