Fen Quotes

“I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no.”
― Daisy Johnson, Fen

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― Daisy Johnson, Fen: Stories

“Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs. She had thought often about what went on there. On the other side, when the letters appeared once more, couples smoke and drank tea or dressed one another or themselves. If there was a book to be written about Margot it should be blank; it would be those sex spaces between lines, sucked clean of words.”
― Daisy Johnson, Fen

“Virginity was a half-starved dog you were looking after, wanted to give away as quickly as possible so you could forget it ever existed.”
― Daisy Johnson, Fen: Stories

“it was a form of worshipping. And, yes, there was something church-like in the risen struts of Margot’s body, the flesh in between. Something, even, in the slow act of it, secretive enough perhaps it was a thing you would only ever talk about in a confessional.”
― Daisy Johnson, Fen