Kate Folk > Quotes

“Total freedom is overrated, especially when you get to a certain age. If you aren't tied down to anything. you're a loser, you're fucked. You drift out to sea.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Such uncertainty was the nature of existence. We brought things into our lives, and time passed. Things exited our lives. That was about all that ever happened.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“You think if only you could find a partner whose desire manifests in a relatively noninvasive way. But of course it's a foolish hope. The more someone loves you, the more he'll want to meddle with the most vital parts of you, and vice versa.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“The need for employment, for money and status, felt like an abstraction, a pointless flailing of his ego.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“What man could propel himself to a speed of 150 knots before lifting us to an altitude of 37,000 feet? What man could carry me across continents and seas, all while keeping me warm and oxygenated inside his aluminum torso? No man I’d ever chanced to meet!”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“To be honest, I wasn't cut out to run a company. I'd rather collect a paycheck and let someone else deal with the headaches.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Instead, the Last Woman on Earth had been handed a talk show, not because she deserved it, but simply because she was a woman. The Last Man on Earth dies with resentment in his heart.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“In the past I had approached dating with a typical fervor of an addict.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“Reese struggled to individuate her descriptions of the three fucking-machines videos. She was running out of ways to describe a vagina as hungry. 'Her pussy is ravenous. Her pussy had a light lunch and now it's dinner time. Her pussy slavers for nourishment. Her pussy is about to faint from low blood sugar. Her pussy carries almonds in its purse to tide it over until the next meal.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“My ideal relationship would be with a heart man who possesses a powerful, methodical brain, preferably an expert in some stem discipline. My dream is that we will marry and he will allow me to take his brain from him, year after year, a tiny bit at a time, through shock treatments and partial lobotomies, until he can't function on his own and I have to care for the drooling husk of his body until it expires. It is only for this that I'd surrender pieces of my literal heart.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“Dancing and swimming - those are two things I'll never pass up. I figure when I'm old, I'll look back on my life and be glad that I enjoyed my body while I could.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Normally, I had no patience for people who griped about air travel. They failed to appreciate the privilege of being alive in the era of flight. How many humans, throughout history, would have paid a lifetime's salary for the chance to sail through the sky like a god?”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“My career writing ad copy to exploit women's physical insecurities has rendered me expert in the minutiae of female beauty. In this sense, I am like a judge of pedigree dogs or horses. When I say that this woman is flawless, I do not mean it lightly. She possesses no attribute that I would, in good faith, suggest augmenting or reducing, highlighting or minimizing, smoothing or shaping or lengthening or rejuvenating or otherwise subjecting to any of the verbs I employed daily to describe the infinite ways in which a woman might fail to achieve her corporeal potential. I would not know how to sell her a thing.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“We've stayed put through worse storms,' Elise's mom said.

'It's not a tornado, Mom. It's a curtain of absence that negates everything it touches.'

'Might as well be negated in our own house, then.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“My female friends have all coupled with men who are feeding off their organs and whose organs they are feeding off of, a symbiotic process that will continue until they break up or one of them dies. If and when they return to me, single again, they'll be diminished in body and spirit - feet swollen from renal failure, or eyes jaundiced, or breath coming short, a piece of their lung or liver or kidney on a shelf in some man's house.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“I'd met Claudette at Christmas and felt intimidated by the blank slate of her consciousness, and her proximity to the realm of nonexistence from which she had so recently emerged.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Only such a cosmic force could bring about my dream of marriage to a plane—what others vulgarly refer to as a “plane crash.” I believed this was my destiny: for a plane to recognize me as his soulmate mid-flight and, overcome with passion, relinquish his grip on the sky, hurtling us to earth in a carnage that would meld our souls for eternity. I”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“I was happy to be paid twenty dollars an hour to flatter a machine that would soon replace me.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“You imagine these objects will pop out in a parallel universe and prove useful to parallel versions of yourselves. You imagine your parallel self is like you, but better.”
― Kate Folk, Out There

“...the Last Woman on Earth lived in Ohio and taught preschool. She didn't ask to be the Last Woman on Earth, but she's doing the best she can.”
― Kate Folk

“As I belonged nowhere on the conventional spectrum of sexual orientation, I allowed people to assume I was heterosexual, and I suppose I was, as all planes are male in spirit, just as all boats are female, and helicopters possess the souls of mischievous children.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“I reflected on the jacket, dangling with an attitude of nonchalance, as though it had never doubted its own worthiness. Resentment set in. How I envied my jacket.”
― Kate Folk

“The more someone loves you, the more he’ll want to meddle with the most vital parts of you, and vice versa. The only way to not hurt someone is not to love him enough, to remain unmoved by the thought of his organs pulsing beneath a thin layer of skin.”
― Kate Folk

“Into the clutch I tucked my ID, my debit card, the tube of lipstick from my mini-makeover at Sephora, and of course my chunk of 737, which I never left home without.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“I'd met Claudette at Christmas and felt intimidated by the blank slate of her cincisouness, and her proximity to the realm of nonexsistance, from which she had so recently emerged.”
― Kate Folk

“Planes are kind of beautiful, aren't they?" he said. This comment piqued my interest, but from the neutral expression on Dave's face, I knew he wasn't like me. He possessed only the typical masculine admiration of large vessels and feats of engineering.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Neither am I,” Karina said. “But I do love to dance. Dancing and swimming—those are two things I’ll never pass up. I figure when I’m old, I’ll look back on my life and be glad that I enjoyed my body while I could.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy