Valzhyna Mort Quotes

“your smell won't let me sleep,
this is how dead men
haunt their murderer's dreams.”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“and you observe at length
or should I say forever”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“like god's stray eyelashes
the stars are falling—more light! more!
god has no time to make a wish
all he can do is cry out faster! faster!”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“the life we live—you'll never see anything like it, even in
the movies”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“and everything belongs to me but hope”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“but when you look into those eyes
you are looking down the barrel of a gun—”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection

“the memory of you
is like a needle in hay
that cannot be found
but every time tumbling with another man
in that hayloft
i'm scared that it will sting me”
― Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears: A Lannan Literary Selection