Upstream Color Quotes

#1. To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

Ani DiFranco

#2. The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#3. Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

Stephen King

#4. If you find a footnote, " a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, "step on its head and kill it before it can breed.

Stephen King

#5. I gained fifty-six pounds when I was pregnant with him. Do you have any idea what it's like to look down and not be able to see your vagina?"
"Uh, no," I muttered.
"My ass had its own zip code.

Tara Sivec

#6. There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Agnes De Mille

#7. I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life.

Shane Carruth