Cameron D. R. Eyestone

“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

“He had no idea how long the body had been out there, but scavengers should have come by now. Vultures. Wolves. It was like they could smell the evil on this man, the poison in his veins. Nazis were so foul that not even flies would lay eggs in their corpses.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Secret Santa

“Trauma does not always carry big battle wounds. Sometimes it appears in the broad daylight of cold wars fought in silence.”
― Sofia Ajram, Coup de Grâce

“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