Cutting Edge Quotes

“There were twenty-four rooms of glass cases of stuffed animals in the natural history museum, including a seventeenth-century hippopotamus that had once belonged to the Medici. Born in the seventeenth century, died in the seventeenth century, stuffed in the seventeenth century. The hippo had company. Pangolins, a skunk. A walrus filled to bursting with a long scar down his chest, looking like a heart patient who wouldn’t reform his habits despite everything. Two slack-jawed sharks, one a lunatic bon vivant, the other (only a slight turndown in his expression) aghast at his colleague.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Cutting Edge: Noir Stories By Women

“What a barbaric way to rise into the air, hauling your own carcass up inches at a time.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Cutting Edge: Noir Stories By Women

“The woman was monstrous and glamorous, illustrated how close monstrosity and glamour really were.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers