❛ can you blame them for wanting to be? ❜ the ideas of love and romance as forms of escapism are not lost on lizzy. in fact, she could see the way people ached for that connection to another person; a deep understanding, a feeling of belonging in the boring dystopia they lived in. in some ways, she felt bad for others, these people so desperate for any sort of warmth in a city where the only love worth having was involved with money and power. in other ways, she didn’t, she couldn’t when looking at how her father and mother manifested; her mother had understood that he would never be able to give her what she needed. he married money and power at a young age and followed that first. she wonders what kind of person he would’ve been had he picked julia first, but that thought is useless. corpos don’t change; love is a fantasy, something to enjoy the idea of, but not throw yourself into wholeheartedly.
❛ it’s part of the human condition. people want it badly, part of the hierarchy of needs. you don’t feel the need to be loved, to connect in some wholly deeper way, v? ❜