Alaya Dawn Johnson Quotes

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.