Marisha G

“Not all of them are grandparents, or will be. They're just seniors, people who have been alive for many years, and perhaps that's their only achievement.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“When she calms down a little, he stands up and grabs her by the hair. Jasmine, now only able to move her hands, is trying to reach her son. She wants to speak, to scream, but there are no sounds. He picks up the club he brought from the kitchen and hits her on the forehead, right where she’s been branded. Jasmine falls to the floor, stunned, unconscious.

Cecilia jumps when she hears the thud and looks at him without understanding. “Why?” she yells. “She could have given us more children.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“He doesn't call it special meat. He uses technical words to refer to what is a human but will never be a person, to what is always a product.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“an urn full of dirty sand from an abandoned zoo with no name.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh