Lâle Davidson > Quotes

“He looked up at the stars, dimly poking through the clouds. The Incas named the shapes of the dark space between the stars rather than the constellations of stars themselves, as the Greeks did. That was how he felt about [her] death. He loved the shape of her in his mind, which even included the shape of her absence.”
― Lâle Davidson, Blue Woman Burning: A Novel

“Butterflies taste with their feet, sea turtles breathe through their asses, and no one really understands gravity or love, least of all her.”
― Lâle Davidson, Blue Woman Burning: A Novel