Thirsty Quotes

“People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born.

And I am turning into a vampire.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“I came into this world from a warm place within someone else; but that I will leave it completely alone.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“We are brethren in being hated.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“I try to scream, but the air is as thick as Jell-O in my lungs. I feel it purging outward, slow and thick as phlegm. I am mute. I am trapped in an arc, both my feet off the ground.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“Everyone is still relatively pleasant.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.”
― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty