“Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.” — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Nobody can remember when the sperm became large enough to see, but we agree on this: once that point was reached, every generation topped… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so bracing as planning a murder. I recommend it to the weak-willed and those with a leaky sense of self. It… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I patch together a living language out of reanimated parts, like Frankenstein, and feel no disgust at scrabbling in the charnel house. Each of… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole” — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Cut nerves left lying on the threshing floors drift and roll and wind up all aligned with the earth's magnetic field, like iron filings… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share Image
