

“We talk about love like it's an involuntary act. We fall into love, like a hole, a puddle, an elevator shaft. We never step mindfully into love. Love we seem to think, requires a loss of control; love necessitates that vertiginous giving over to gravity; love wants you to have no choice.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“I read, I wrote, I learned, and I fucked—it was a classic liberal arts education.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
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