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Elisabeth Hewer QUOTES

Elisabeth Hewer QUOTES

1 " i dream nights and
girls like tigers,
claws and teeth on both. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

2 " I’ve just got this restless ache at the centre of me. I’m worried it’s infected. I’m worried it’s spreading to my heart. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

3 " You can’t build a life
on another human being. We’re foundations
of sand. We’re Atlas buckling under the sky. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

4 " I could do it. I could rip your life out like a fury, like a beast.
I could stand over you with my red hands
and lap the heart out of your hollow chest.
I'm a wolf, I'm a woman, I'm a building hurricane.
I'm whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws.
I say "love me," and you say, "you're killing me."
I say, "i'd die for you," and you say," You'd kill for me—that's not the same thing. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

5 " (see the gods are long dead,
but the girls are still standing) "

― Elisabeth Hewer

6 " god should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men "

― Elisabeth Hewer

7 " Look to your kingdoms—
I am coming for them all. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

8 " (That girl on the news never invited that man to touch her. All I can think about is how I wish she had had something savage coursing through her skin. God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.) "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

9 " She was desperate,
she was deathless. I’d have followed her
anywhere she asked of me. I’d have
thrown myself to the wild for her. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

10 " I want to be eaten alive. I want

to feel wanted. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

11 " If I tell my bones they’re a cage
maybe they’ll keep this
snarling heart contained. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

12 " I mean I don’t want to die but I sure would appreciate the quiet. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

13 " you always feared god-born achilles
the most of all your fellows.
his divinity wove him taller,
better, quicker, stronger.

well here's a secret for you:
my father was a swan,
and the monthly blood on my thighs
is two-parts ichor.

you think achilles was of impressive descent?
touch me one more time.
maybe it's time we found out
what the daughter of the mightiest god
can do.

look to your kingdoms.
i am coming for them all. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

14 " You’re a defiant act of creation. You’re a whole solar system pretending to be a person. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

15 " You taste like metal & blood,
kiss like a man’s last gunshot.
I could find religion in your face.
Build a church in the palms of your hands. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

16 " Here are the things that do fill me: a night sky,
endless and rammed with stars. The soaring
of a soundtrack over a triumphal point
in a film trailer, something inside me stirring
like an animal. Dark roads and cosy cars,
and imagining having somebody I loved
enough to distract me in the front seat.
Helplessness, sometimes. Anger, always. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

17 " There’s so much world and sea and salt and
what I want to know is how much does it frighten you?
How much does it make you shake? "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

18 " I’m a wolf, I’m a woman, I’m a building hurricane. I’m whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws. I "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

19 " When they come for you you will know it is because you have made them afraid. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds

20 " My keys press purple shapes into my hands and I whisper, It will not be me, not tonight. Am I stating or am I praying? Sometimes they sound so awfully the same. "

― Elisabeth Hewer , Wishing for Birds