Swallowtail Quotes

“Peach pits are poisonous. This is not a mistake. Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide. It will never be your for swallowing.”
― Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail

“I learnt how to make this urgent flame look like a lantern.”
― Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail

“It’s called a mondegreen, a misheard lyric, like how the Ramones will sing, I wanna be sedated, & my mom will nod along as she sings, I want a piece of bacon. It’s the way our brains fill in gaps, make sense of things we didn’t
or couldn’t hear, the way my mom said,
he’s gone, & I asked her where?”
― Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail

“A magician talks about the record for holding one’s breath as his assistant lowers herself into a tank of water.

He calls it twenty-two minutes, but I swear to you it’s longer.
I swear to you, it’s years.”
― Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail