Tender Is The Flesh Quotes

“There's a vibration, a subtle and fragile heat, that makes a living being particularily delicious. You're extracting life by the mouthful. It's the pleasure of knowing that because of your intent, your actions, this being has ceased to exist. It's the feeling of a complex and precious organism expitring little by little, and also becoming part of you. For always, I fine this miracle fascinating. This possibility of an indissoluble union.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“...and which god should she pray to if her god lets things like this happen.”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,’ his father said, ‘but he flew, do you see what I mean son? He was able to fly. It doesn't matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Today I'm the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle.”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“He wishes he could anaesthize himself and life without feeling. Act automatically, observe, breathe and nothing more. See everything, understand and not talk. But the memories are there, they remain with him.”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“Let them eat me, I'll give them horrible indigestion.”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“There's something about her he'd like to break.”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“Without the sadness, he has nothing left.”
― Augustina Bazterrica