Creep Quotes

“Tyrants revel in the chasm separating the literate from the illiterate. Hoarding literacy gives them the power to define, defraud, and shatter.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Though employers often refuse to consider applicants with criminal records, such workers have been found to be more productive and have less turnover. They’re also promoted faster.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“When William noticed a small blue hole in Joan’s head, he screamed, “No!” He jumped into her lap and chanted, “Joan! Joan! Joan!” Maybe he wanted to be consoled by her. The living expect a lot from dead women.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles and protect them. This fog abets.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“To honor the love Álvaro gave, I write into being a cup. Next, I fill it with tejuino: la bebida de los dioses. Before I order you to hand this drink to my uncle’s thirsty spirit, allow me to add a scoop of crushed ice, a twist of lime, and three shots of the finest tequila. Now, pass the cup to my spinster tío… Thanks.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“California doesn’t deserve its reputation as a progressive state. If it were so damn progressive, it wouldn’t rely on jails and prisons to take care of its problems. In Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, the geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore asks why California embarked on the biggest prison-building project in the history of the world. In her view, “prisons are partial geographical solutions to political economic crises.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“The worst cookies might do was choke you, but family could do the same.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Her wails grew birdlike and took flight.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“My godmother was showing me how much work death really is. Death doesn’t end with a gunshot. The bullet is a starting point, and there are many administrative steps that the living must complete before the deceased can heave a sigh of relief. The dead depend on us. Without us, they don’t sleep well.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein postulates that “ ‘games’ form a family.” To that I would add that players form a family.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“reporter asked William Burroughs, “Do you regret the period in your life when you were addicted?” He answered, “The point is a writer can profit by experiences which would not be advantageous or profitable to others. Because he’s a writer, he can write about it.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions