O Fallen Angel Quotes

“To be a have, and not a have-not.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“she loves pink pink roses she likes to tend to her garden she likes to pick the flowers herself and fill her home with such love and joy and fragrance”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“But deep inside Maggie is still a good girl. She is a good girl who is trying to be bad. She is a good girl who is trying to upchuck the evil she feels inside of her. Her poisoned soul. That”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie used to be a good girl and at some point Maggie stopped being a good girl she doesn’t know when that was. When she stopped being a good girl. But”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Not all self-involved and self-ish and anything else involving a self which is not very womanly.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“There is a corpse in the center of this story There is a corpse and it is ignored No one looks at the corpse Everyone not-looks at the corpse There”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Every human being is an abyss. One grows dizzy looking down. —Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“The land they prefer to live in (besides Disney World) is Oblivion. It is a nice land of Valium cocktails and cable TV!”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“It’s the American way the nuclear family the nuclear bomb the white picket fence.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Especially Missy she is three and needs to learn to sit like a lady! Which is on your ass watching the television! It’s best to practice the assumed position of apathy and defeat!”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“She likes the bad boys the ones that are bad for her. Maggie is SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. She has the love instinct and the death instinct and they are in an eternal cage match inside her head. This”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“A rain of fire. A rain of airplanes. A flash: paper airplanes.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Mommy thinks of roses but she erases the thorns.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Mommy and Daddy had never heard of such a thing, of such a bad girl obviously rejecting all things good and holy, which is science and tradition. They were always uneasy with her psychology major because psychology after all is a pseudo-science not like engineering! One actually MAKES THINGS in engineering what does a psychologist do Mommy wonders? Except make trouble. Except blame everything on the Mommy, blame everything on the Mommy and Daddy, that’s what a psychologist does, and who needs a psychologist when you have Jesus? And parents who love you?”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie doesn’t say anything which the wolf-boy takes as a good sign and he leaps on her and tears her to pieces. Maggie”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie is broken because Maggie cannot articulate why she feels sad or why she feels angry and that’s why therapy does not go too well. her dark sticky feelings That”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie is broken. Maggie is having a breakdown. Maggie is having a psychic break and it ain’t to Bermuda. Maggie”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“The sun that speaks to him. The sun and his daily communication with warmth, light.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“this is not the 1950s anymore you cannot simply put me away. Maggie”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie is Ophelia. Maggie is drowning in the whirlpool of her own emotions. This”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“But then other times Maggie is a very bad girl yes a very bad girl because she doesn’t care whether they love her anymore. This is when Maggie is filled with HATE. This is when Maggie rebels. Maggie has always had an edge on her that Maggie. It”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie has fallen down the rabbit hole. Maggie is choking Maggie is drowning in all the poison she has ever swallowed so”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Maggie is on a downward spiral yes Maggie is on an emotional rollercoaster yes. Maggie”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Here is the writer risking everything—language, sense, self, her very life—to restory us. I think it is a kind of love. Lidia”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“There is no place between real and imagined. We just posit a place and project it away from ourselves because we are afraid. That”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“That we must unwrite what has been overwritten in order to resuscitate the girl and the woman buried beneath “girl” and “daughter” and “mother” and “woman.” That”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“What does the story of a girl and her body literally becoming and unbecoming before our eyes, mean to tell us? Tender grotesque, fragmented whirl, blurry image escaping the frames? That”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Girl gone monstrous or mad from the projection of daughter upon her body, hysterical Freudian girl resisting the stupidity of the script placed upon her, acting out lashing out girl clawing her way to an identity. This”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“If by monstrous we mean faces and identities caught at the moment of their undoing.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family

“Bomblettes across the territory or art, interrupting our mindless consumer existences, reminding us that we are alive and in relation to language. II.”
― Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel: A Darkly Hilarious Literary Satire of Mother-Daughter Trauma and the American Family