Katherine Dunn Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

  Katherine Dunn

  Unique, Glimpse, Normalcy

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage

• Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.

  Katherine Dunn

  Hurt, Feet, Ideas

• American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

  Katherine Dunn

  War, Long, Romance

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