New Animal Quotes

“I think it's human nature to want to look at wounds. It must be.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“But your body. Your beautiful, beautiful body. It clings to you through it all.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“Over the years I have learned that grief is contagious. You can catch it if you get too close.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“Sometimes I wonder if… I have the ability to be so out of sync with myself that both my body and mind seek to annihilate each other. Sometimes I wonder if all of us metaphorically throw our bodies from cliffs every day of the week.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“The deceased are beyond beautiful, but only because they are so emptied of worry. Everything tense or unlikable is gone. Like a shopping center in the middle of the night, they have lost all the chaos and clatter.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“Interesting to note my spiraling in real time. Strange to bear witness.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“I look at my mother. I can feel her tugging at the invisible line between us. Yanking it from afar. The umbilical cord. I plug my belly button with my finger. I miss her and I need her, and she's me, or a part of me at least, and I haven't fully absorbed her yet. I haven't gleaned all the woman-ness from her. Which is what a daughter does. Whose daughter am I now? Where has she gone?”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“Let me tell you, pet, life is either boring or shocking, there's not much in between.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“gone. I wish you knew how loyal your casing is. How your body happily trots everywhere with you like an indebted lover. And it’s you who lays your body out under sweethearts and foes. You. You did that. Because sometimes you need to feel another person’s weight in order to feel your own.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“I can’t relax around repeated invitations to be introspective.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal