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Quotes from Geek Love — Katherine Dunn

d. 2016 United States

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I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.

Geek Love (1989)

I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.

Geek Love (1989)

She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.

Geek Love (1989)

She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.

Geek Love (1989)

The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.

Geek Love (1989)

'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.

Geek Love (1989)

And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.

Geek Love (1989)

Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.

Geek Love (1989)

It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.

Geek Love (1989)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Katherine Dunn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.