We the Parasites Quotes

“Learning to be a parasite is the crucible of unmet longing for that something-else that can complete you, enfolded somewhere, still perhaps hidden.”
― A. V. Marraccini, We the Parasites

“Rage can’t obliterate memory, it just goes over it, another coat of red until it becomes deeper to the eye.”
― A. V. Marraccini, We the Parasites

“To write or read on the precipice feels right in this moment in particular, as if it is coming into a new fullness, a wholeness which was not possibly entirely in the complacency of our living before, the city whose obverse was not at Necropolis yet. This is the moment when the skin of the fig gives into the needle of the wasp’s thorax, when the wasp breaks into the dark.”
― A. V. Marraccini, We the Parasites

“Taste can be cultivated, a sort of eros of wanting certain things, but behind taste is the throbbing want that is perhaps closest to the parasitic, Darwinian imperative.”
― A. V. Marraccini, We the Parasites