Alaya Dawn Johnson Quotes

In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

After everything that's happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn't life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it's the little stuff that paralyzes her: talking, eating, dressing, sleeping. Everyone in school is afraid of the apocalypse; she is afraid of living through it.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Then you remember that Jack--that's his name, the mac & cheese--plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.

~ Alaya Dawn Johnson