Poppy L. Roberts > Quotes

“I survive being a fat lesbian in a red state with a cheating fiancée, only for the thing that breaks me to be potentially making a sea monster sad.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“I’m fat, queer, and catastrophically alone, and frankly my cornbread isn’t quite done in the middle.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“I find you more beautiful and fascinating than sad.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“She’s a creature made to punish, and yet somehow she makes less of a mess than the women who were meant to love me.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“I don’t just want to be fed, I want to feast. I want to devour each moment of her life. I want to know everything that was torn from her and everything that glued the pieces back. I want it all, endlessly.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“I’m less afraid of being consumed by a monster than I am of going home.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“If I’m going to be alone, I may as well be somewhere spectacularly alone.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“It’s easy, after a while, to close my eyes and pretend I’m somewhere truly isolated. On a desert planet, far away from the reality of the grief that I can feel clawing at the underside of my skin.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth

“I scrape my hands over my face, stand, and amble into the cleansing steam of a shower. It’s less about getting clean and more about boiling myself until my thoughts stop.”
― Poppy L. Roberts, The Tide Has Teeth