Ryan Lowe > Ryan's Quotes

“I'm overwhelmed by the thought of all the women who would pour out of me if I were cracked open: swarming like insects, bubbling up out of my mouth. The women who have collected inside me over the years, filling up my insides until there's no room left for me.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions

“The first time I meet Patrick Braddock, I'm wearing his wife's lipstick.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions

“If Patrick leaves, I don’t know what will happen to his wife. When it’s clear that he’s not coming back, she could stay inside me, metastasizing through my bones until nobody can tell us apart. Or she might leave. A parasite deserting a starving host. A stowaway swimming from a sinking ship.... I'm not sure which fate I prefer... To let Sylvia devour me or to be entirely alone again, abandoned inside my skin.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions

“I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“Do you know,” Tom said, “when a forest grows back after a fire, sometimes it’s not even the same forest? Different trees grow faster because the soil’s been changed by the fire. So really, you might be looking at a whole new forest now.”
― Sara Flannery Murphy, Girl One