Boys Quote by Claire Dederer

Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as…

— Claire Dederer

The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself.

— Claire Dederer

“I had discovered something; there was a pleasure in becoming something new. You could will yourself into a fresh shape. Now all I had…

— Claire Dederer

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to…

— Claire Dederer

I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way…

— Claire Dederer

“No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug…

— Claire Dederer

Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling…

— Claire Dederer

“Food was wearisome. We’d been dealing with food, planning it buying it growing it storing it cooking it serving it, for years, for decades…

— Claire Dederer

Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

— Claire Dederer

When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were…

— Claire Dederer

I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual…

— Claire Dederer

“Reality is an easy commodity in the Front Range. There's weather, and there are animals that are thinking about eating you, and there's all…

— Claire Dederer