Neko Case Quotes

How will you know if you found me at last 'cause I'll be the one with my heart in my lap.

I'd been sailing so long I'd become the shore.

This tornado loves you

As the soft rebellion gains speed, I feel my whole being stuffed up inside my mouth. I wonder, oh so fleetingly, how I got here. It’s a forbidden question; the mere thinking of it could open a trapdoor beneath my feet, and if I don’t wipe it away quick enough I’ll fall through. It’s a rabbit-hole vacuum and I swat the question from my mind. But it’s too late. I see a kid running down the grayest street possible. At first she looks gray, too. But then I see the embers of rage flying off her. She has rivulets of fur trickling out of her sleeves and down the back of her neck, a stray’s three-beat gait. She is not even a she at all, just an animal running, as hard as it can, panting, out of breath.

Looking back at my childhood, I slowly understood that even if no one talked about it, these secrets had been a distress signal that buzzed all through it, a frequency that's too low to hear, but you can still feel pulsing through the air, shaping you--with its invisible currents and dial tones--into the person you become.

I also have acute high-end hearing, so things bother me that other people can't hear. For example, I can hear electricity. Most people can't. I had no idea, I just thought everybody could.

I had looked into the eyes of those wounds on my mother's hip bones for her; it was the worst thing I'd ever seen, and I would have done it a million times more because that's how much I loved her. I would kill the man who did these things to her and live in jail forever. How did she not know? How had I failed si utterly?

I had looked into the eyes of those wounds on my mother's hip bones for her; it was the worst thing I'd ever seen, and I would have done it a million times more because that's how much I loved her. I would kill the man who did these things to her and live in jail forever. How did she not know? How had I failed so utterly?