Shit Cassandra Saw Quotes

“A virgin the same as a seduced woman the same as a violated woman the same as a willing woman, all women opening their mouths to watch snakes slither out and away.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“I regret that it took me this long to learn to use my body for its own sake.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“A virgin the same as a seduced woman the same as a violated woman the same as a willing woman, all women opening their mouths to watch snakes slither out and away,”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“I thank her for the lesson, well-learned, that if the world will give money to a dead boy and not a live girl, then I will stay a daughter inside a son, a sister inside a brother, the man my sheath, the woman my blade.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories

“Our father, when he was angry, wielded pauses. His silence more frightening than his yell, the suspense worse than anything.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“Here the air is thin. I breathe deep and still want more. I want to feel how much I can take.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“He has a scar on his arm from where a small tumor was removed and sometimes I feel an urge to touch it, as if scars are where we’re most vulnerable and not the thickened skin where we feel the least.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“She keeps looking over to them to see if they understand, as she does, that life is unfair. How could they not? And not even that, because unfair suggests a standard of fairness, something to hope for. Life is unrelated to such standards. Life is a physical activity achieved by the body — until it isn’t anymore.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“SHIT CASSANDRA SAW THAT SHE DIDN’T TELL THE TROJANS BECAUSE AT THAT POINT FUCK THEM ANYWAY”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories

“If every woman she has ever been were given a name, would there be a Midwestern Girl at all?”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“And here is the best thing of all, the thing that makes Cassandra smile as the men storm her temple, exactly as she has always known they would: someday, Trojan will not be synonymous with bravery or failure, betrayal or endurance, or the most beautiful woman or the most foolish of men.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“Cassandra has not noticed a lack of men telling women that to do.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“Cassandra is tired of running at wooden horses with nothing but the flames of the smallest match. She is tired of speaking to listening ears. The listening ears of the men who think her mad drive her to madness.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“He regards us from the shore in that way we are learning to expect from a certain kind of man.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw

“She wears thick eyeliner, a short skirt, a T-shirt that says “Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories

“no matter where you go, there you are.”
― Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories