Conquest Quotes

“How she realized at last that not even love
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.”
― Zoë Brigley (Thompson), Conquest

“So many women come to me saying, “I have lost too,
and this one, and this one”. So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don’t tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.”
― Zoë Brigley (Thompson), Conquest

“Beneath my dress is a ladder of desire,
that I climb tonight and each night after that.”
― Zoë Brigley (Thompson), Conquest