Michelle Sacks > Quotes

“They cut you open and scrape it all out, scoop it from you like the innards of a melon. The knots of flesh and malevolent cells. Scoop, scratch, snip. It's all gone. Everything that sat there, waiting inside you. Biding its time from girlhood to womanhood, knowing all the secrets, promising all the gifts. One day, your body whispers in your ear. One day you will perform miracles with your flesh. Ovaries. Womb. Gone. Eradicated. You weep for what is lost, but the tears wash nothing away, they just empty you out even further.”
― Michelle Sacks, You Were Made for This

“The women. The women are in heat. It's pretty amusing, I won't lie. The pair of them vying for my attention like two bristling lionesses. At some point, I think I even laughed out loud.”
― Michelle Sacks, You Were Made for This

“Because this is Frank. This is what she does. She seeps in, like a very dangerous gas leak; she finds a way to lodge herself where she is not wanted. Roots herself so deep she cannot be excised.”
― Michelle Sacks, You Were Made for This