heretical

“Monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren’t stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right into through if the skin wasn’t trying to keep them out”

“All the people I could be are dangerous. / The blood clotting, oil in my veins.”

“My brother used to ask the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless but it is right; for all is like the ocean, all things flow and touch each other; a disturbance in one place is felt at the other end of the world.”

“I will change my body into someone else’s. Hurt it, until it is nothing but meat. Then I will force it to remember everything.”

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; (…)”

“I can’t stop thinking of the future / as the past, imitating a god.”

“How do we remove those splinters of memory and remain ourselves?”

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

“[I]n Jewish folklore demon are not considered evil; they will only return hurt for hurt - whether or not the hurt is intentional … The human assumption is that demons do not belong to the human world; hence the human moral system does not apply to them. The agreement between man and demon is based on fear of the demons’ vengeance if man breaks the agreement.”