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Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: The kingdom of sleep demands its forfeits, and the world looks very different through eyes cracked and yellow with its denial.

The kingdom of sleep demands its forfeits, and the world looks very different through eyes cracked and yellow with its denial.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: a smile that always makes you feel like you're in on a joke.

a smile that always makes you feel like you're in on a joke.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Some mornings I thought I saw your worry frost our blankets, hang in the air with your cloudy breath.

Some mornings I thought I saw your worry frost our blankets, hang in the air with your cloudy breath.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: He turns away and I'm overwhelmed with an echo, with the sense that the words in my mouth aren't my own. But of course they are.

He turns away and I'm overwhelmed with an echo, with the sense that the words in my mouth aren't my own. But of course they are.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: I can always tell when Gil's been with Enki, because he moves like he might start dancing at any moment and he hardly hears a word I say to him.

I can always tell when Gil's been with Enki, because he moves like he might start dancing at any moment and he hardly hears a word I say to him.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Our sex is a little death each time he touches me, much longed-for.

Our sex is a little death each time he touches me, much longed-for.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: I'm nothing but forward momentum and a curse.

I'm nothing but forward momentum and a curse.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: morality is the change that falls from your pockets when you climb up the ladder.

morality is the change that falls from your pockets when you climb up the ladder.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

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

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: They think they've gone to heaven," he says. "They don't realize that means they're dead.

They think they've gone to heaven," he says. "They don't realize that means they're dead.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: A good rival is almost like a friend, isn't she? You make me try harder.

A good rival is almost like a friend, isn't she? You make me try harder.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: There's a song", I say."There's always a song", he says.

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

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: You can't samba in a data stream,

You can't samba in a data stream,

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Gil's hands imprison my own.

Gil's hands imprison my own.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: The kings die so that their choice of the next Queen can be irrevocable, unassailable, and unprejudiced.

The kings die so that their choice of the next Queen can be irrevocable, unassailable, and unprejudiced.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Answering the questions feels like beating my skull against the wall of my carrel,

Answering the questions feels like beating my skull against the wall of my carrel,

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: 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.

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.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: I burn where he last touched me. I stare at the space where he has been until everything fades.

I burn where he last touched me. I stare at the space where he has been until everything fades.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Ieyascu looks bright and flat, heavy strokes on an invisible canvas.

Ieyascu looks bright and flat, heavy strokes on an invisible canvas.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Enki kisses my ear. He turns my head until I taste just the corner of his mouth. I am crystal clear, I am a pond, I am a light. I

Enki kisses my ear. He turns my head until I taste just the corner of his mouth. I am crystal clear, I am a pond, I am a light. I am nothing at all.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: How much of yourself will you give them in exchange?

How much of yourself will you give them in exchange?

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: I've loved you for so long and You're beautiful, won't you dance?

I've loved you for so long and You're beautiful, won't you dance?

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: shoulders touching in a way that's only mostly platonic. It's inevitable, she supposes, that God would call her bluff.

shoulders touching in a way that's only mostly platonic. It's inevitable, she supposes, that God would call her bluff.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

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

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: I could watch him forever, and he vanishes before I can blink.

I could watch him forever, and he vanishes before I can blink.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: What if we're going too far?" "Where else would we be going?

What if we're going too far?" "Where else would we be going?

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: 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.

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.

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

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

Alaya Dawn Johnson quotes: Instead, there's ice in my ears and earth in my nose and stars in my eyes.

Instead, there's ice in my ears and earth in my nose and stars in my eyes.