“Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.”Katherine Dunn book Geek LoveGeek Love (1989)
“Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.”Katherine Dunn book Geek LoveGeek Love (1989)
“It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.”Katherine Dunn book Geek LoveGeek Love (1989)