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“What if I told you I wanted to be my most monstrous self all the time? What if I wanted to be a god?

Would you pray to me?”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“For a vicious moment, Andrew thought about slipping his fingers into Thomas's cut. Taking hold of his rib and breaking it. Pulling the soft crumbling bone from his chest and sewing it into his own. They'd be forever together, rib against rib, fused in gore and bone and adoration.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“If you cut open my chest'—Andrew's voice was wrecked—'you'll find a garden of rot where my heart should be.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“He needed Thomas, needed their lungs sewn inside each other so he could remember how to breathe. He needed to take words from Thomas's mouth and put them in his own so he had something to say.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“Research has shown that transgender and gender-nonconforming youth are four times more likely to struggle with an eating disorder. My brain became consumed by counting calories, time passing, how to make myself full without making myself full. When”
― Elliot Page, Pageboy: A Memoir

“I’ve nothing new or profound to say, nothing that hasn’t been said before, but I know books have helped me, saved me even, so perhaps this can help someone feel less alone, seen, no matter who they are or what journey they are on. Thank you for wanting to read about mine.”
― Elliot Page, Pageboy

“I think I'll decompose in my own order, an order I'll decide. It will be my bones and teeth first, all my hardest parts, and then my organs, largest to smallest, and then my tongue and hair and eyeballs, and then my skin. I'm going to rot from the inside out. Not the outside in. When they dig me up, all that will be left is what I think, what I dream.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Everything costs money, money, money, they tell us, except people. People are the only thing cheap. Every day, we cost so little to them. Should we pay for veins in our body to bring us our blood? Should we pay our bones to prop us up?”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Men want a dog…. They want someone who will need them, you know, who will never refuse them…. Dogs will take anything you give them….”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Forgiveness will show people you're boneless, and when you're boneless, people will think it's too easy to eat you.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts