“Every religion is a one-way relationship.”
―
Cassandra Khaw,
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“But the interior didn't smell like it'd had people here, not for a long, long time, and smelled instead like such old buildings do: green and damp and dark and hungry, hollow as a stomach that'd forgotten what it was like to eat.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“Man mistakes his own experiences as the canvas on which all truths are drawn.” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“After all, isn't that the foremost commandment in the scripture of horror? They who are queer, deviant, tattooed, tongue-pierced or other must always die first” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“A decade of friendship teaches you a lot of things: the tics that separate I’m sorry and I’m sorry you caught me, that hangdog expression that is really code for when the other person’s expecting you to fix their mess.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“Have you ever cannonballed into a cold lake? The shock of an old memory is kind of like that; every neuron singing a bright hosanna: here we are. You forgot about us, but we didn’t forget about you.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“And you shall know her by the trail of dead” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“There is nothing wrong with being a monster.” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“It is always interesting to see how often women are described as ravenous when it is the men who, without exception, take without thought of compensation.” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“This is the problem with horror movies: Everyone knows what's coming next but actions have momentum, every decision an equal and justified reaction. Just because you know you should, doesn't mean that you can, stop.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“One of the most effective tricks in a gumshoe's playbook is the act of silence. Wait. Let the other guy pull the trigger first. It costs you nothing, and it gets you everything.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone
“The world is made up of rituals. From the way you brush your teeth to how you show obeisance during religious ceremonies, it’s an endless list of interlocking behaviours seared into your unconscious self, charms against the madness of reality.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods
“It wasn’t charitable but apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“I didn’t know someone else’s pain could have a texture, a bite, a gelatinousness you could hold in your teeth, but I could almost gnaw on Phillip’s dying.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“He could have been a somebody but all he ever wanted to be was somebody to someone, a husband, a family man, a dream he’d coddled since he was ten.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“We sagged into ourselves, small talk dispensed like so much recreational Valium.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“You can’t murder that which is eternal, that which will lie until death itself passes. But you can slow it, cripple it, hobble it.You can hurt your nightmares; it’s a two-way street.” ― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet
“I could see why Lin defaulted to wit where he could. Easier to run your mouth, run from the Sisyphean work that was being emotionally open.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“But the interior didn't smell like it'd had people here, not for a long, long time, and smelled instead like such old buildings do: green and damp and dark and hungry, hollow as a stomach that'd forgotten what it was like to eat.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“Man mistakes his own experiences as the canvas on which all truths are drawn.” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“After all, isn't that the foremost commandment in the scripture of horror? They who are queer, deviant, tattooed, tongue-pierced or other must always die first” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“A decade of friendship teaches you a lot of things: the tics that separate I’m sorry and I’m sorry you caught me, that hangdog expression that is really code for when the other person’s expecting you to fix their mess.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“Have you ever cannonballed into a cold lake? The shock of an old memory is kind of like that; every neuron singing a bright hosanna: here we are. You forgot about us, but we didn’t forget about you.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“And you shall know her by the trail of dead” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“There is nothing wrong with being a monster.” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“It is always interesting to see how often women are described as ravenous when it is the men who, without exception, take without thought of compensation.” ― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
“This is the problem with horror movies: Everyone knows what's coming next but actions have momentum, every decision an equal and justified reaction. Just because you know you should, doesn't mean that you can, stop.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“One of the most effective tricks in a gumshoe's playbook is the act of silence. Wait. Let the other guy pull the trigger first. It costs you nothing, and it gets you everything.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Hammers on Bone
“The world is made up of rituals. From the way you brush your teeth to how you show obeisance during religious ceremonies, it’s an endless list of interlocking behaviours seared into your unconscious self, charms against the madness of reality.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods
“It wasn’t charitable but apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“I didn’t know someone else’s pain could have a texture, a bite, a gelatinousness you could hold in your teeth, but I could almost gnaw on Phillip’s dying.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“He could have been a somebody but all he ever wanted to be was somebody to someone, a husband, a family man, a dream he’d coddled since he was ten.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“We sagged into ourselves, small talk dispensed like so much recreational Valium.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“You can’t murder that which is eternal, that which will lie until death itself passes. But you can slow it, cripple it, hobble it.You can hurt your nightmares; it’s a two-way street.” ― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet
“I could see why Lin defaulted to wit where he could. Easier to run your mouth, run from the Sisyphean work that was being emotionally open.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient.” ― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
