“ Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy. Alaya Dawn Johnson
“ Then you remember that Jack--that's his name, the mac & cheese--plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.A pinky? Damn, you might as well s… Alaya Dawn Johnson
“ So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world. Alaya Dawn Johnson
“ After everything that's happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn't life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But i… Alaya Dawn Johnson
“ In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars. Alaya Dawn Johnson
