Food of the Gods Quotes

“The world is made up of rituals. From the way you brush your teeth to how you show obeisance during religious ceremonies, it’s an endless list of interlocking behaviours seared into your unconscious self, charms against the madness of reality.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“And for one infinitesimally brief moment, the universe peels open, and I can see everything—how physics and velocity and time intersects with the idea of a heaven above, how meta co-exist with the fundamental truth of their non-existence, how the sun can be a star can be a ball of dung rolled across the galaxy by a gargantuan beetle. Suddenly, it is all so clear.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“Ha. Get used to it, ang moh. The juicy hot dog of life is best enjoyed between two puns.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“Human is very similar to pork, after all.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“They hunger, therefore they are.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“You humans have an aphorism about atheists and foxholes, do you not? A belief that death can make believers of the faithless?”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“prickles, rust-edged, dangerous. “You’d be amazed how many people pray for temporary salvation. Nothing lasting. Nothing that might require a lifetime of devotion. Something small. Something to get them by for the next day, the next week.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“nothing exists that cannot be broken,”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“My comprehension of Taoist sorcery is only very minimally superior to my grasp of animistic magic, which is to say I really, really should be chaperoned by an adult at all times and kept away from the complicated ideas.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“Black goes with everything, especially blood stains.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

“(Don’t let the media fool you, ang moh. An absent education often only exacerbates a fierce intelligence, and lipstick’s the woad of the modern Amazon.)”
― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods