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Ivy Pochoda QUOTES

Ivy Pochoda QUOTES

1 " She craves the brutality of the attack because when it comes it will be a release. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

2 " You think you have it all figured out—you’ve timed your commute, you’ve fit in your weekend run or you haven’t, you’ve got life down to a science, a mathematical equation of time, interest, and energy. But one day something stands up to you, surprises you in a place where you’ve determined never to be surprised. And that’s when you run. You move fast the wrong way through traffic. You think it’s working. But something deep inside, driving the rhythm of your steps, tells you that it isn’t. So you try again. You search for that tiny space hidden in you, untouched by everything that you’ve experienced or survived. "

― Ivy Pochoda , Wonder Valley

3 " You can hope and pretend. You can imagine that the world is violent and that is has nothing to do with you - that the women who die nearby are a symptom of an abstract evil, a distant one. Because to do otherwise would be overwhelming, it would undo you from the inside out, rip you apart just as badly as if you were one of the victims yourself. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

4 " Dorian didn’t understand the curse of skin tone. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

5 " Why do men and other women want to punish women? "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

6 " I have always been interested in the destruction of the female body. Or perhaps in how the world is out to destroy it. It is, I’d guess, more than anything else the target of more violence, physical, psychological, emotional, let’s say, than anything else in the world. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

7 " Dorian could tell her a thing or two about how the rage is senseless. How it accomplishes nothing. How all that screaming and anger only digs you in deeper, alienates you, makes people pity and fear you—as if grief is contagious. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

8 " There's an answer for everything. It's usually simple. It's people who complicate things. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

9 " The mud carries Anneke. There's a moment when she feels as if she is flying and floating. She closes her eyes, lets herself be carried. Is this what the woman in El Salvador felt bobbing in the waves? Was this how she bounced against rocks weightless on the water? When did she stop caring? Was it before she was tossed into the sea? Or was it when the darkness came across Rodger's eyes a floodtide of black that swallowed his irises? Down the mud goes. The hills of Malibu are receding above her. The mud is rushing invading some houses and skipping others. Is this house the world slips away in slow motion? Anneke is spinning buffeted from one side of the stream to the other. It's almost peaceful. These women. These women, beautiful and wild, out of control. These women he loved with a ferocity he couldn't tame, a passion he didn't understand. These women who tortured and tormented him. These women who would taunt screw and die. These women he loved, hated, and destroyed. These women. All these women who haunted Western. Anneke had tried to keep them safe, she tried. What more does the world want? The mud blankets her face as black as Rodger's stare. One by one things are lost to her: sight, smell, and now sound. She can no longer hear the mud roar. It has filled her ears. She continues down in quiet. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

10 " These women... Give them a bone and they'll gnaw all day. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women

11 " Here’s what I know. Chasing James won’t do a thing. It won’t help you at all. Because what you need to do is find your initial mistake, the thing that got you stuck in the first place. That first error you made that made you the way you are now. And maybe if you find it, you can undo the damage. "

― Ivy Pochoda , Wonder Valley

12 " You can’t change yourself by grafting your life onto someone else’s. I know,” she says. “I tried. "

― Ivy Pochoda , Wonder Valley

13 " We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves. "

― Ivy Pochoda , Visitation Street

14 " It's chilly but she sits outside. There's not enough cold in L.A. so you need to take what you can get to remind yourself that things can change and the world keeps spinning. "

― Ivy Pochoda , These Women