“There is a reason the hunt is central to so many narratives. For all that humanity professes to delighting in its own sophistication, it longs for simplicity, for when the world can be deboned into binaries: darkness and light, death and life, hunter and hunted.”
― The Salt Grows Heavy
― The Salt Grows Heavy
“I am yours, and so I will be your light and your laughter. I am yours, so open your eyes to look at me, and open your mouth so that I may kiss it. I am yours, I am yours, and nevermore will I leave.”
― When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
― When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
― Hungerstone
― Hungerstone
“A miracle so profound may be indistinguishable from horror.”
― The Starving Saints
― The Starving Saints
“We lunge together, two actors in a story so old that its rhythms are recorded in marrow, retold with every new birth, repeated with every fresh death.”
― The Salt Grows Heavy
― The Salt Grows Heavy
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