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Virgin QUOTES

Virgin QUOTES

1 " my mother-in-law: duplicitous,
ever-present in the dark. "

― , Virgin

2 " I am tired
of undressing to no comment,
years and years of youth
wasted to the particles in the air. "

― , Virgin

3 " I dream the scent
of my mother's lipstick
has come back to haunt me—
like an oil pastel
marking
my dreary, dramatic heart. "

― , Virgin

4 " lustful to the point of sullen. "

― , Virgin

5 " Out here, where the sand is so white,
so Westernized, how could I not
sink into it
& burn with questions
like what am I doing here
I am in the wrong book
I am in the wrong era
I am not Dorothea
I am Analicia "

― , Virgin

6 " Her grief is constant & irreparable "

― , Virgin

7 " Why does the twenty-first century feel like this?
Like men are talking into
their favorite phonograph
& the phonograph is me
receiving their baritone: You're so exotic
Watch out, men, says my violin
I am a Royal Bengal man-eating tiger "

― , Virgin

8 " I take back
what I said—come here
with your unplaceable frustration,
let me add it to my calendar
of knife-like headaches,
let me kiss you if I want
for months at a time. "

― , Virgin

9 " This wedding is some hell "

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10 " The virgins are certain there's a circle of hell
dedicated to that fear you'll never find anyone else. "

― , Virgin

11 " I'm looking at the sea on the wall, and
even though it's a copy of a copy of the Aegean,
I wish you would grab me and take me to Greece. "

― , Virgin

12 " All my acquaintances are coupled up
like hamsters with advanced degrees. "

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13 " I am done with you, couples. We are
breaking up. "

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14 " A man walks into my kitchen in athletic shorts.
That's the joke—a man in my kitchen. "

― , Virgin

15 " What's this? This mourning is mine forever. "

― , Virgin

16 " I want to know what's coming in the afterlife
before I sign off on arguments
in the kitchen & the sight of him
fleeing to the car
once he sees how far & wide,
how dark & deep
this frigid female mind can go. "

― , Virgin

17 " Now I have three heads: one
for speech, one for sex,

and one for second-guessing. "

― , Virgin

18 " Now you are a page I read
while holding my breath. I’ll turn you
into something else, a footnote
of a person. "

― , Virgin

19 " architecture is the absence of love,
but that’s where we all want to live. "

― , Virgin

20 " I’m morbid and loving. You made me. "

― , Virgin