“Unexpectedly, this did not kill her; and what did not kill her made her curious.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“In many ways, women are death's natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women "give birth astride of a grave." Mother Nature is indeed a real mother, creating and destroying in a constant loop.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“I just want to do the whole thing right. I want to take it seriously."
"But do you—I mean—do you really believe it?"
Virginia snorts. "That's not the right framework," she says. "Believing is all about feeling," she says at last. "Affirming is about deciding. There's a difference.”
― The World Cannot Give
"But do you—I mean—do you really believe it?"
Virginia snorts. "That's not the right framework," she says. "Believing is all about feeling," she says at last. "Affirming is about deciding. There's a difference.”
― The World Cannot Give
“Hideous, she thinks suddenly, joyfully. Hideous.
She slices into the crease. She watches, transfixed, as the blood appears. She presses her hand, still trembling, to the wall; she imagines the stone sucking it in, with the moss and the mildew; she imagines it traveling, through the rock and the earth, straight into Sebastian Webster's bones.”
― The World Cannot Give
She slices into the crease. She watches, transfixed, as the blood appears. She presses her hand, still trembling, to the wall; she imagines the stone sucking it in, with the moss and the mildew; she imagines it traveling, through the rock and the earth, straight into Sebastian Webster's bones.”
― The World Cannot Give
“I KISSED YOU AND LATER I WOULD KISS HIM TOO BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE, AND ALL THREE OF US LIVED TO REGRET IT—BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
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