I Will Hold My Death Close Quotes

“I think my mother’s god is running beside me in the dark, like a deer, and we flee the hunger of the earth together, and it is men, living or dead, who would devour us.”
― Stant Litore, I Will Hold My Death Close

“This is what my mother tried to tell me in all her songs: that from the day we start to breathe, what matters to us can be taken from us, is taken from us, will be taken from us, until we are bound shivering beneath a knife or until we lie choking in the dust, wrinkled and old, and the men who have been inside us or who have come out of us have left us alone, at last, in the dark. This is why she was always afraid.”
― Stant Litore, I Will Hold My Death Close

“I am walking uphill, toward the sky where my father’s god lives. And if, when I get up there, where there is nothing but empty air between me and the stars, if I hear his god calling, I will call back, and I will demand that he answer me. That he tell me why he wants me to die.”
― Stant Litore, I Will Hold My Death Close