A review by talasterism
The Seep by Chana Porter

challenging funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

"How have we never met before? they asked again and again, but what they were really saying was, How have I only just begun to love you?"

not much of a review per se, but this book was delightful, delightful. funny and smart and easy and breezy. I really loved Trina but mostly here are my favourite quotes:

it was funny -  "Trina didnt know what kind of revolution she wanted; she had trouble deciding what to eat for breakfast" and beautful - "I'm still married to her memory" "No love to keep her tethered to a form or place" "Deeba was full of life, and Trina was courting death" "The image of light reflected over water. A profound, life-aletering kiss" but also deep - "Eistance is memory"  "and forever was a long time, especially now that death was an opt-in procedure." 
 
"Trina and Deeba enacted the same circular argument until it felt like they were actors in a play going through the same performance night after night, their words hollow, their crying choreographed." THEIR CRYING CHREOGRAPHED IS SO GOOD ACTUALLY.
 
also special egg: inert  - gay - ennie - wordle - love

"They could cycle through together endlessly, learning how to love each other in different permutations of being, in something bigger and grander and stranger than pure romance. Love as a verb, an action, an adventure in knowing. But Trina just couldn’t hack it. She was old-fashioned that way. Simultaneously, this broke both of their hearts."

"She wanted to learn how to speak again, perhaps in another language, in a land far away from the wounds of her past. " "These were the things The Seep gave us, and what it took away. "
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