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“Fear is better than boredom, danger trumps familiarity, the unknown is always more interesting than the known.”
― Fruit of the Dead
― Fruit of the Dead
“Weed always has this flattening effect on her attention. Like Google Earth it spins the world and zooms in on its topography unbiased. Everything is equally entrancing-slash-distracting. The world is a bottomless trash bag.”
― Fruit of the dead
― Fruit of the dead
“I knew she did not love me, not really. I knew that to her I was just a puzzle piece that had to be forced to fit. And yet as she held me too close, squeezed me hard enough to bruise my ribs, as she cried into my hair, as her tears pooled in my ears I felt: this is what it is like to be loved.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“She chose to forget that boys rape, men rape, it happens all the time. They're monsters, under socialized, poisoned by testosterone and millennia of power. They'll kill us all if we let them. I'd told her dozens of times.”
― Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
― Fruit of the Dead: A Novel
“Without a common tongue, language is not much more than an exchange of information. Like everything, it becomes a kind of commerce”
― Fruit of the Dead
― Fruit of the Dead
“She doesn't know. Of course she doesn't know. How could she know? She is the quintessential starving artist. Look at her homemade haircut. She's never had two pickles to rub together. Isn't into pickles at all by the looks of her. Well, I'll tell you. We do it, my little destitute dyke--we do it, my little cash-strapped strap-on--by charging their parents boatloads of money. Not the parents of American Fabius Morales of course. But the parents of his cohort, certainly.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“Just as our skin begins to toughen, pock, our hair to coarsen, eyes to close, our spirits harden. We learn to be critical, mean and cold. To lick wounds and nurse grudges. We embark on the construction of defenses. My own childhood feels as dim as a horror film half watched, but I know by twelve or thirteen I had become impenetrable. Small but hard. Ramparts of stone.”
― Fruit of the dead
― Fruit of the dead
“The thing about remembering is that to recall one memory is to suppress its neighbors. In order to remember you must forget.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
