Elisabeth Hewer Quotes & Sayings

#1. You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky.

#2. i dream nights and
girls like tigers,
claws and teeth on both.

#3. There's so much world and sea and salt and
what I want to know is how much does it frighten you?
How much does it make you shake?

#4. You taste like metal & blood,
kiss like a man's last gunshot.
I could find religion in your face.
Build a church in the palms of your hands.

#5. I want to be eaten alive. I want

to feel wanted.

#6. Other people make angels out of boys like you.

But I? Choked-up lungs and erratic flight; I
leave too fast to find the light.

#7. You're a defiant act
of creation.

#8. She was desperate,
she was deathless. I'd have followed her
anywhere she asked of me. I'd have
thrown myself to the wild for her.

#9. Look to your kingdoms -
I am coming for them all.

#10. You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person.

#11. If I tell my bones they're a cage
maybe they'll keep this
snarling heart contained.

#12. I'm a wolf, I'm a woman, I'm a building hurricane. I'm whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws. I

Elisabeth Hewer Quotes