Jennifer Pashley > Quotes

“I come up out of the weeds of the backyard, rising like a sprite. Like a spirit. Like the image of a dead girl, coming up in vapors from the grave...
What's your name? she asks me. My own voice, cracked and dry. She brings me flat clean water in a glass.
I tell her.”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp

“Women don't run from each other.
They find me with the radar of the heart, with the divining rod in their bones, they come to me. Carved hard and white in the middle of the woods, waiting for them. Calling out to their needs.”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp

“One of the twins has his mouth sewn shut.”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp

“Henderson used to talk about paradox. In his philosophy years. About how sometimes you couldn't be clean until you were dirtied. Couldn't be free until you were enslaved. Couldn't be whole until you'd been broken to pieces.

I kept that in mind.”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp

“Rabbits can stop their hearts out of fear, if in danger, or cornered. It saves them from the grisly death that was coming; like flicking a switch, they just turn themselves off and die on the”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp: A Novel

“All you've ever had are names from men.”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp

“The secrets under my skin have changed the shape of my face, which shifted from town to town, from girl to girl.”
― Jennifer Pashley, The Scamp