Organ Meats Quotes

“If I do nothing else with this life, carrying my mother’s blood is enough.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Her laughter is a season you want to stand in forever, golden leaves relinking with the trees, springtime fizzing out of a bottle.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“I think I'll decompose in my own order, an order I'll decide. It will be my bones and teeth first, all my hardest parts, and then my organs, largest to smallest, and then my tongue and hair and eyeballs, and then my skin. I'm going to rot from the inside out. Not the outside in. When they dig me up, all that will be left is what I think, what I dream.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“You can’t trust the outside of anything”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Forgiveness will show people you're boneless, and when you're boneless, people will think it's too easy to eat you.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“The direction of all life is toward loss.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Men want a dog…. They want someone who will need them, you know, who will never refuse them…. Dogs will take anything you give them….”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Everything costs money, money, money, they tell us, except people. People are the only thing cheap. Every day, we cost so little to them. Should we pay for veins in our body to bring us our blood? Should we pay our bones to prop us up?”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“I will not leave. I will wait. If you don’t wake up, I’ll tunnel through your sleep and meet you in the dark of your eye sockets. I will curl up beneath your eyelids.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Rainie theorizes that the Milky Way is most likely the same goddess, that she sneezed one day and wiped snot across her face with the back of her hand, smearing us a sky. This is why it is important for gods not to have tissues, Rainie says, because their bodies need to fully leak in order for us to have a world to live in.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“She could enjoy life in a dank cave of corpses, so long as she had a pack of playing cards. She could make time stretch like a cat, languid and leisurely and unconcerned with humanity. She could produce amusements from the air, snag a fly out of the sky and make it perform a drama on her palm.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“When Vivian and I were little, we ate handfuls of sand in the side yard, scooping it into our mouths like sugar, and because of this, our stomachs are sanded smooth. You could skip us across the sea like stones.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“Just use your teeth to feel its grit, she wanted to say. If you want to understand the reality of something, bite into it.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“And isn't that why women are drawn to pearls? Because it evokes a fantasy of owning an entire world.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“The neighborhood bitches (bitches, both figurative and literal) narrate what is troubling them, and bunk beds are ripe for intimacy and trickery.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“[..]now their histories had splintered. Nothing could braid them together again.”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats

“It’s possible to dream so deep, you never surface again”
― K-Ming Chang, Organ Meats