Bone House Quotes

“Another word for lesbian is: devourer of the dark.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“Some desires are only legible in the dark.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“It's the way she says Cathy that makes me listen, the way a woman pleads to any deity that has damned all her prayers, redirected them to death. A woman deboned of hope.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“She belongs to me, yes, like a body belongs to its blood. I will spill from her and she will be better without me, lighter, so light she will return to the sky where she was born, an airplane, a skyfish, a rain of spades, digging to uproot me.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“Outside, the stars are loosening like the backs of earrings. I open my mouth to catch them, swallow.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House

“Cathy believed that the more she and Edie thirsted, the deeper their roots would snare inside each other. They would find inside each other's bodies all the water they wanted.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bone House