Fruit of the Dead Quotes

“Without a common tongue, language is not much more than an exchange of information. Like everything, it becomes a kind of commerce”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“Fear is better than boredom, danger trumps familiarity, the unknown is always more interesting than the known.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“occasional visits by violence are part of the cost of growing up female.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“As far as she can tell she has no interests, no desires except to spend time outdoors, far away from home, to lose herself in the intricacies of a landscape, to bliss out under the ever-changing sun.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“She chose to forget that boys rape, men rape, it happens all the time. They're monsters, under socialized, poisoned by testosterone and millennia of power. They'll kill us all if we let them. I'd told her dozens of times.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead: A Novel

“They called her fussy, fussy, which struck me as a terribly effeminate word—a word for a prima donna, for a fastidious grandmother, perhaps, not for anyone so terrified and alien as a baby. Her cries were furious and agonized as if she’d witnessed the end of a world.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“Most people, they go their whole lives craving only contentment, undelayed gratification: the comforts of fictions, falsehoods, and consumption, the dull blank of satiation.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“Is this what it is like, she wonders, to be an adult; is this what it will be like from now on; will she always be so sad, so alone; will she always yearn this way for comfort, or for company, or—? What does she yearn for?”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead

“and she feels tugged toward him, a corporeal acquiescence, as natural and strangely physical as if he had her on a leash.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the Dead