Cameron D. R. Eyestone

“And if it’s not me, it’s someone else. There are a million ways in which the body is stolen from us—debt and interest and data and labour and literal tissue and blood that can be harvested, and affective, sexual, and emotional energy. Capitalists, which clutch and pry and feed, dreaming up ways in which they can make your body not your own, and when the last drop of blood is exhausted they’ll have the audacity to bill you for it.”
― Sofia Ajram, Coup de Grâce

“My life has been incredibly good, I have people in it and happiness, and some days I feel resolute, but let’s be honest: if at its best it’s not enough, then what can save me?”
― Sofia Ajram, Coup de Grâce

“Replete is the body which holds for us these sublime ecstasies, replete with sanctity and graces, all of it so briefly; it glitters wondrously on the ground, then extinguishes like a flame.”
― Sofia Ajram, Coup de Grâce

“Here, do me a favour. To sharpen your understanding, try this: well all the spit inside your mouth—now swallow.
Now do it again.
Now, again—don’t waste time, just swallow whatever saliva is in there. Four, five times is kind of annoying, but regulate that to a hundred—a thousand? For days on end—weeks, months? Now can you see exactly what I mean when I say the body doesn’t need much to simultaneously turn itself into your oppressor— into the site of your oppression?”
― Sofia Ajram, Coup de Grâce