That Broke into Shining Crystals Quotes

“The loop is broken. A viridescent ribbon sighs to the floor. My triggers, signalling molecules, unwind. Jade is moss-soft palms and consensual. Jade is superhuman raw and beautiful machine verdant. Jade is the multiverse written into variegated stone and banded -- there I am and there I am and there I am happy!”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals

“Jade is present tense and opening my finely-muscled structures -- these pulses purify. Jade's destination is the future of who will touch my body with love. A green and mineral thumb -- detoxtifying -- jade is love.”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals

“His chest is a split-open watermelon tourmaline geode -- wet-look and twinkling. And there, a raw rose quartz quavering away for a heart.”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals

“O matrix of igneous rock! O solid aquarium spilling out little glints of violet! O pre-trauma morning-brain before you remember what happened! Last year you were in the city and each window dazzled like a healing layout and you cried on every man -- Roman and marble handed -- who passed.”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals

“Don't tell me assault was transformative. Don't tell me when the worst happens and now you just move on. Don't tell me anything but tourmaline and repair -- rock: quantum and shimmering, crimson then clouded rosettes.”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals

“Like the eyes of some beautiful faggot this citrine seems to glisten with tears and pulls every shattered boy out of the earth. And such a painful harvest, volcanic, opening the throat chakra and mouths canary-bright with the runic jumble of revelation.”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals

“O I should have been the
snail. Living phallus that can
hide when threatened. But
I'm the oyster. Quivery ashen
gill. Cold jelly mess of a
boy shucked wide open. In-
vertibrate. Raw.”
― Richard Scott, That Broke into Shining Crystals