Fruit of the dead Quotes

“Just as our skin begins to toughen, pock, our hair to coarsen, eyes to close, our spirits harden. We learn to be critical, mean and cold. To lick wounds and nurse grudges. We embark on the construction of defenses. My own childhood feels as dim as a horror film half watched, but I know by twelve or thirteen I had become impenetrable. Small but hard. Ramparts of stone.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the dead

“Weed always has this flattening effect on her attention. Like Google Earth it spins the world and zooms in on its topography unbiased. Everything is equally entrancing-slash-distracting. The world is a bottomless trash bag.”
― Rachel Lyon, Fruit of the dead