Virgin Quotes

“I am tired
of undressing to no comment,
years and years of youth
wasted to the particles in the air.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“I dream the scent
of my mother's lipstick
has come back to haunt me—
like an oil pastel
marking
my dreary, dramatic heart.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“Why does the twenty-first century feel like this?
Like men are talking into
their favorite phonograph
& the phonograph is me
receiving their baritone: You're so exotic
Watch out, men, says my violin
I am a Royal Bengal man-eating tiger”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“Out here, where the sand is so white,
so Westernized, how could I not
sink into it
& burn with questions
like what am I doing here
I am in the wrong book
I am in the wrong era
I am not Dorothea
I am Analicia”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“I want to know what's coming in the afterlife
before I sign off on arguments
in the kitchen & the sight of him
fleeing to the car
once he sees how far & wide,
how dark & deep
this frigid female mind can go.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“Now I have three heads: one
for speech, one for sex,

and one for second-guessing.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“lustful to the point of sullen.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“I take back
what I said—come here
with your unplaceable frustration,
let me add it to my calendar
of knife-like headaches,
let me kiss you if I want
for months at a time.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“I'm looking at the sea on the wall, and
even though it's a copy of a copy of the Aegean,
I wish you would grab me and take me to Greece.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“I’m morbid and loving. You made me.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“architecture is the absence of love,
but that’s where we all want to live.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“Now you are a page I read
while holding my breath. I’ll turn you
into something else, a footnote
of a person.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“What's this? This mourning is mine forever.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“Her grief is constant & irreparable”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“A man walks into my kitchen in athletic shorts.
That's the joke—a man in my kitchen.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“I am done with you, couples. We are
breaking up.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“All my acquaintances are coupled up
like hamsters with advanced degrees.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“The virgins are certain there's a circle of hell
dedicated to that fear you'll never find anyone else.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“my mother-in-law: duplicitous,
ever-present in the dark.”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin

“This wedding is some hell”
― Analicia Sotelo, Virgin