I'm Not Done with You Yet Quotes

“because I need to see her first and foremost. So badly that my mouth is actually watering. As though I haven’t eaten in years and my body knows it’s about to be nourished.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I'm Not Done with You Yet

“I’m also so grateful to my husband, Mike, who unlike Ted has never referred to my writing as a “hobby.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I’m Not Done with You Yet

“The kind of face that painters would cut off their ears over.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I’m Not Done with You Yet

“I often thought of how, throughout history, the bodies of people of color have been destroyed and fed in little pieces to rich white people to swallow, and they won’t stop, not even when there’s nothing left of us to give.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I'm Not Done with You Yet

“While men lust after the soft, bulging parts of the female anatomy—the breasts, the ass—we women notice the hardness. The places that signify control. Discipline. The clavicle, the shoulder blades, the cheekbones. Thalia’s collarbone is defined in a way that makes me swallow. I imagine myself running a finger along its hard length, from the bottom of her neck all the way to her shoulder, where it juts out into a single knifepoint. I want to press on it with my index finger and feel the solidity of it pushing up against me. I want her lovely bones to cut into my skin.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I'm Not Done with You Yet

“The thing about crazy bitches is there’s usually some man who’s pushed and prodded and gaslit her to that point.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I’m Not Done with You Yet

“There’s just something about perfection that makes me want to defile it.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I’m Not Done with You Yet

“I’m in a prison made out of polite words and a steady mortgage, and the bars had descended so gently that I hadn’t felt them coming.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, I’m Not Done with You Yet