The Devourers Quotes

“Intimacy lies in the body and the soul, in scent, in touch and taste and sound. A man whose name you don’t know can tell you a tale to move you to tears, just by filling and emptying his lungs, by moving his tongue and lips, his fingers. Even after, you might never know him.”
― Indra Das, The Devourers

“One question, foreigner. How do you speak my language so well?'
'A dead man taught me, after I ate him. Just as the Christ taught his disciples the love of their God after they ate him.'
'You're a strange people, you white folk...”
― Indra Das, The Devourers

“To tell stories of the past to children who walk into the future is a task both noble and taxing.”
― Indra Das, The Devourers

“Leave, if you think the only way to achieve intimacy is dry custom, the exchange of facts and labels, names and professions. Intimacy lies in the body and the soul, in scent, in touch and taste and sound. A man whose name you don’t know can tell you a tale to move you to tears, just by filling and emptying his lungs, by moving his tongue and lips, his fingers. Even after, you might never know him.”
― Indra Das, The Devourers