Underbelly Quotes

“Let me say it plain: I loved someone,
and I failed at it. Let me say it another way:
I like to call myself wound,
but I will answer to knife.”
― Nicole Homer

“You will notice that I have not written about the horrors of prison life, or the conditions, hardships, treatment and so forth, because men reading this book who have been to jail will be bored to tears and people who haven't been to jail can bloody well come in here and find out for themselves.”
― Mark Brandon Read, From The Inside

“Before, I let a blade slide itself sharp against me. Look at where I once bloomed red and pulsing. A keloid history. I have not forgotten the knife or that I loved it or what it was like before: my unscarred body visits me in dreams and photographs. Maybelove, I barely recognize it without the armor of its scars.”
― Nicole Homer

“The truth is: I want to hold your hands
because they are like mine. Holding a knife by the blade and sharpening it.”
― Nicole Homer