Books
"I want to make my work invisible because then I can feel more powerful than those who overlook it. Cannier. Slippery. A rich witch. A ghost."
— Charlotte Shane, Prostitute Laundry
"There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition."
–The Wallcreeper
Language, as she deployed it, was neither a line cast nor a bullet fired. It was a catholic mechanism: the sharp twist of a pilot biscuit into the waifish body of a christ. A word, placed on her tongue, became flesh. One night it was almost morning, I could almost see her, every sentence a necklace she was pulling out of her mouth, tangled in smoke.
From Things to Make and Break, by May-Lan Tan
"Of course they are making a fuss, her being drowned and all. It’s a long time since we’ve had a drowning by flood; it’s an important event in this village."
-Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
"Sometimes I think I'm the only one in our neighborhood with any worthwhile dreams. I have two, and there's no reason to be ashamed of either one. I want to kill Vadim. And I want to write a book about my mother."
from Broken Glass Park, by Alina Bronsky
