Franny Choi Quotes (38 quotes)

“My hunger, too, has both hard and soft parts.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, hard-and-soft, hunger, poetry, soft-science

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“If tenderness is any sort of currency

maybe I don't want what it can buy.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: currency, franny-choi, poetry, soft-science, tenderness

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“No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, howling, moon, poetry, soft-science

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“i'm the beast
rattling the cage, asking for slaughter.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science, suicidal

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“Somewhere, she is a cell remembering itself
suddenly, late at night.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, remembering, soft-science

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“I buried myself all over the garden but the pieces only sprouted into new riddles”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“Here, in a seed, is a cyborg: A bleeding girl, dragging a knife through the sand. An imaginary girl who dreams of becoming trash.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women trying to touch each other.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, lesbian, poetry, queer, sex, soft-science

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“Spring is the season of crying and seeing nothing. Of choking up on someone else's trash.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: crying, franny-choi, poetry, soft-science, spring

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“I drink and drink their looking, til I'm soaked.
I drink and drown in want. I drink, and choke.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: desire, franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“There are only so many parallel universes
that concern us. In one, he isn't dead.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, parallel-universes, poetry, sad, soft-science

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“My lord, my darling, my darkening sky.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: darling, endearments, franny-choi, lord, poetry, soft-science

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“having been hurt before”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, hurt, poetry, soft-science

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“The only teeth I have are human teeth, I remind him, gently
before opening his throat.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science, vampire

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“Turns out, there are no synonyms for King.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, king, poetry, soft-science

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“really you really;
what did you expect
[ suckling a knife ];”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“worst question [ did you know;
did you know and;
did you
[ walk right in, choose
a terrible seat, smile when
the floor rushed up
to kiss you ];”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, masochist, poetry, soft-science

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“I'm a net teeming with pervy fingers, reaching for anything
that will bite me back, any promise of stoppageâ€�”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: desire, desperate, franny-choi, poetry, sex, soft-science

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“When I smack my gum it's to signal
that I do perceive space and time, it's just
I'm kind of over it.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, over-it, perception, poetry, soft-science, space-and-time

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“Otherwise, the dark and our mouths, tearing at what bones we found, grinning and hungry for somethingâ€”something we couldn't, with all our words, name.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: desire, franny-choi, poetry, sex, soft-science

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“Kingdom carved. At the end of the line, we made our own place.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, kingdom, poetry, soft-science

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“Her mouth is a stage sprouting cardboard trees.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“Or: I am only trying to slither back into my first skin.

Or: I am only trying to remember how it felt not to leak.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“Favorite film: the strip of black after it's over.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: ending, film, franny-choi, over, poetry, soft-science

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“shouldn't a god have blood to lose”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: blood, franny-choi, god, poetry, soft-science

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“cast my barcode to the satellites; send my blood to sea”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“if it kills for a living we call it; a soldier; if it kills but can't speak; we call it; a mirror”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“your try-hard heart back to overshare.”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“remember / they love their blood / even as they retch / at the smell of it”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: blood, franny-choi, poetry, soft-science

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“stimulus: relevant cry
(if then therefore)
say: cry.

say:
knife o knife o knife”
― Franny Choi, Soft Science

tags: ending, franny-choi, last-lines, mysterious, poetry, soft-science

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