P 81 Quotes

“How does one defeat a monter?
Imbue it with humanity, with vice an virtue both. With greed and charity. With patience and warth, with envy and kindness. With blood, with sacrifice.
With everything it took to make a human, and then with everything it took to end one, too.”
― Olivie Blake, La Petite Mort

“Light bulbs up the ass, no big deal!" you say. "On a good night I can fit a Butterball and two sweet potatoes up my bum!"
Aye--But here's the rub:
How did these bulbs come to shine so brightly? They weren't plugged into an electrical socket...

An hour before her performance, Ida lay spread-eagle on the ground, and she had a helping hand (and how) slowly, carefully, millimeter by millimeter--INSERT A BATTERY PACK INTO HER UPPER INTESTINE.”
― James St. James, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

“Le Verbe est le pouvoir. Ne l'oubliez jamais. Le Verbe est le pouvoir, peut-être même l'ultime, c'est bien pour ça que l'Ogre a tué le dictionnaire.”
― Chloé Delaume

“Is it a love letter?’ Esther asked again.
‘No,’ I stammered. ‘ I … I … don’t think so.’
‘Don’t you know what it says?’ She was surprised. ‘So it’s a secret code? Isn’t that a bit dangerous?’
I wiped my palms on my skirt: I knew what she was implying, and took a step towards her.
‘Are you calling my sister a spy?’
Esther Jenkins slowly smiled. ‘I don’t think I mentioned a sister, did I?’
I realised then what I’d done: I’d put my size five foot right in it.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse

“Those who are reserved by nature, and who rarely make friends quickly, or lightly, have a natural reluctance to say good-by, if only because new relationships will not quickly, or lightly, replace the ones that are left behind.”
― Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA