Luisa

“So many cells in my body have died and regenerated since the days of the Dream House. My blood and taste buds and skin have long since re-created themselves. My fat still remembers, but just barely — within a few years, it will have turned itself over completely. My bones too. But my nervous system remembers. The lenses of my eyes. My cerebral cortex with its memory and language and consciousness. They will last forever, or at least as long as I do. They can still climb onto the witness stand.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Putting language to something for which you have no language is no easy feat.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“We can't stop living. Which means we have to live, which means we are alive, which means we are humans and we are human: some of us are unkind and some of us are confused and some of us sleep with the wrong people and some of us make bad decisions and some of us are murderers. And it sounds terrible but it is, in fact, freeing: the idea that queer does not equal good or pure or right.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Sure, sex is fun, but have you ever pooped on a reliable schedule>”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays