"Her Body and Other Parties" Quotes
"Her Body and Other Parties" is a collection of surreal and feminist short stories that explore themes of desire, violence, and the female experience.
short stories | 248 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
In her dream, she was always in bed, and the walls were always bleeding.
The husband stitch is what happens when a woman gets a husband and the husband wants a little more than he bargained for.
We are, all of us, always altering our own stories, and in that way, our stories are all always the same.
The door was locked from the inside, and the room was empty.
There are no such things as curses, only mirrors that are easier to break than other mirrors.
She was a little disgusted with herself for not having been more disgusted with him.
She was a story, not an epilogue.
The dead girl was her fault. She knew this. Her body, her fault.
I have always been fascinated by doubles, secret selves, hidden rooms.
She felt that she was a story, but that she wasn’t an author.
