Franny Choi > Quotes

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of
catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can
dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“My hunger, too, has both hard and soft parts.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“All spring I brushed confessions out of my hair. Tore the little letters apart and locked myself in the refrigerator, until the world promised to stop birthing such soft things.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“but some of us are born / in orbit / so learn /to commune with miles of darkness / patterns of dead gods / & quiet / o quiet like you / wouldn't believe”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“If tenderness is any sort of currency

maybe I don't want what it can buy.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong?
I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“i'm the beast
rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Once, a scientist in Britain asked: Can machines think? He built a machine, taught it to read ghosts, and a new kind of ghost was born.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Somewhere, she is a cell remembering itself
suddenly, late at night.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“(does not dream; is only dreamed of)”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“All things birth their own opposites.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“I buried myself all over the garden but the pieces only sprouted into new riddles”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Spring is the season of crying and seeing nothing. Of choking up on someone else's trash.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women trying to touch each other.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“I am only trying to remember how it felt not to leak.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“I drink and drink their looking, til I'm soaked.
I drink and drown in want. I drink, and choke.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“On the phone, I ask my mother about a memory. Am I mourning that right, I want to know. “Just pretend it didn’t happen. I just say, it didn’t happen,” she says. It happened. Am I saying that right?

What happened?

Did it happened?”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Q: What is the past tense of “lived”?

A: Once, I looked back and purchased vowel after vowel. I devoured the minutes which had already been dripping from my teeth. I smashed the fruit against the bowl and called it “salvage.” I retraced my steps, then retraced the retracing. What could I have done? I’ll say it every night before the day slips into rot: What could I have done?”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Here, in a seed, is a cyborg: A bleeding girl, dragging a knife through the sand. An imaginary girl who dreams of becoming trash.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“bright, ancient wound I follow home”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“My lord, my darling, my darkening sky.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“you who wants comfort, who are you? have you been a comfort too? say it with me: it won’t be okay and we can follow the burning shore. there’s nothing more to say. no next time but the broken before.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“knotted up; frayed; faked own death; kept showing
up in new clothes, new names; then leaving”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“thank you, thank you for having
me, please have me please, have me, again.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“There are only so many parallel universes
that concern us. In one, he isn't dead.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Dystopia congratulations you were right to be paranoid”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“What's the German word for preemptively missing somethhing so much you can't look at it. Literal translation: green green green and I hide my face.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“having been hurt before”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“how to speak to any one in a history like this.
how to tell you.
everything will be all right.
without inheriting.
the family business.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On