Sandy > Sandy's Quotes

“The body is a blunt instrument, easily fooled by strong emotion, shaking legs, a racing heart.”
― Hilary Zaid, Forget I Told You This

“To despise someone is intimate by default.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“He spent all his time trying to remember, as if memories could sustain him.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“I study her the way an overeager student studies a poem, committing it to memory because comprehension is out of reach.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

“I have seen his face in its many variations. I have seen it when he’s angry, when he’s satisfied, when he tries to project control. I have been on his good side and his bad side. It is a face I have spent a lot of time trying to read, trying to appeal to, trying to capitulate to, trying to pretend for. I have always positioned myself in relation to him, thinking I could toe the line, thinking it would be fine if I just cooperated, thinking if only I compressed myself a bit more.”
― Ling Ma, Severance

“I am writing this so it will stay true.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems

“Maybe the dead know, their eyes widening at last,
Seeing the high beams of a million galaxies flick on
At twilight.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems

“Everything she touched seemed to bounce away from her with stronger force.”
― An Yu, Braised Pork

“It was nothing as sweet as nostalgia or a longing for bygone days, just a constant absence from the present, an anger toward the future.”
― Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

“And if, at any moment, a part of him started to feel better, he would torture himself all the harder because he didn't want to feel better, because that would mean letting go.”
― Marie Phillips, Gods Behaving Badly