All These Sunken Souls Quotes

“But what if I'm not the bird? What if I am the cage itself?”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“There is nothing more ladylike than blood play.”
― Joelle Wellington, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“What is my life worth if it isn’t mine?”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“Brandy is sixteen now—so maybe Dad thought she was too young to know. I’m not sure I want to puncture her innocence myself. Brandy grew up dancing ballet and pointing out the beauty of butterflies and sunny days. When we’re at home, she’s featherlight, spinning sometimes for no reason, hitting a pirouette when golden hour hits the windows just right.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“that house with its little chicken coop had a lot of pain in it, and everybody been staying away from Them People, Lily’s people, for a long time.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“Way back when they called her by a name instead of just what she was to other people. Before she lost her name to being someone’s Mama, to being you-know-who-from-that-house.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“This house isn’t good for you.” “What do you mean?” Vienna whispers. “It rubs you raw. You’ll start peeling, and I do not think you’ll like the new skin.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“They were enraged in their early teens. Vienna does not know where her own body ends and Florence’s begins—the seams of their fusion are messy that way. They starved for the world and ate each other when hungry, until they were pulled apart and Nana asked, “Who will you have when I am dead?” And so, they were meant to learn to eat other things, to do things other than self-cannibalize. Vienna learned. But Florence had developed a taste, and she is invariable. She will never stop cutting her teeth on family flesh and her own bones. She stands in the foyer of Vienna’s house not because she is invited but because she is hungry.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“I love your eyes, for they are ones my lover should have.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“The first time he saw them, Adam joked that Frey’s eyes were the ones that would belong to his lover: a rich dark brown he could gaze into for eternity. In return Frey remarked that Adam’s eyes were the blue of an ocean tide, a great wave that could move their life into a new direction. From that moment the two had been inseparable, bound by an invisible string of fate.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

“I am a lonely animal who cannot be caged.”
― Circe Moskowitz, All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology