Soft Science Quotes

“My hunger, too, has both hard and soft parts.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“All spring I brushed confessions out of my hair. Tore the little letters apart and locked myself in the refrigerator, until the world promised to stop birthing such soft things.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“If tenderness is any sort of currency

maybe I don't want what it can buy.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“but some of us are born / in orbit / so learn /to commune with miles of darkness / patterns of dead gods / & quiet / o quiet like you / wouldn't believe”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“i'm the beast
rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“I buried myself all over the garden but the pieces only sprouted into new riddles”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Somewhere, she is a cell remembering itself
suddenly, late at night.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Once, a scientist in Britain asked: Can machines think? He built a machine, taught it to read ghosts, and a new kind of ghost was born.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“(does not dream; is only dreamed of)”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“All things birth their own opposites.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“I am only trying to remember how it felt not to leak.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Spring is the season of crying and seeing nothing. Of choking up on someone else's trash.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women trying to touch each other.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Here, in a seed, is a cyborg: A bleeding girl, dragging a knife through the sand. An imaginary girl who dreams of becoming trash.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“I drink and drink their looking, til I'm soaked.
I drink and drown in want. I drink, and choke.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“bright, ancient wound I follow home”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“There are only so many parallel universes
that concern us. In one, he isn't dead.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“My lord, my darling, my darkening sky.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“thank you, thank you for having
me, please have me please, have me, again.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“knotted up; frayed; faked own death; kept showing
up in new clothes, new names; then leaving”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“My mother says love, in our family, means sacrifice. I thought,
if I lay my legs on the altar, I thought something would come back to me.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“The only teeth I have are human teeth, I remind him, gently
before opening his throat.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“having been hurt before”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“it's too late to stop smiling.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women trying to touch each other. Breathing strange. Moving toward and away from each other as the red ghost in the sky opened, called us gone, showed us the door to another world. Otherwise, the dark, and our mouths, tearing at what bones we found, grinning and hungry for something - something we couldn't, with all our words, name.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“for the ocean so loved / the quartz / feldspar / the tiny homes of tiny creatures / that she ground them / into sand / to keep them close / to kiss them with / well / i suppose you would call it / a mouth”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Kingdom carved. At the end of the line, we made our own place.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“Otherwise, the dark and our mouths, tearing at what bones we found, grinning and hungry for something—something we couldn't, with all our words, name.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

“When I smack my gum it's to signal
that I do perceive space and time, it's just
I'm kind of over it.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science