Elisabeth Hewer Quotes & Sayings

You're a defiant act
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer

You taste like metal & blood,
kiss like a man's last gunshot.
I could find religion in your face.
Build a church in the palms of your hands. — Elisabeth Hewer

I'm a wolf, I'm a woman, I'm a building hurricane. I'm whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws. I — Elisabeth Hewer

Look to your kingdoms -
I am coming for them all. — Elisabeth Hewer

You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person. — Elisabeth Hewer

You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky. — Elisabeth Hewer

i dream nights and
girls like tigers,
claws and teeth on both. — Elisabeth Hewer

She was desperate,
she was deathless. I'd have followed her
anywhere she asked of me. I'd have
thrown myself to the wild for her. — Elisabeth Hewer

I want to be eaten alive. I want

to feel wanted. — Elisabeth Hewer

There's so much world and sea and salt and
what I want to know is how much does it frighten you?
How much does it make you shake? — Elisabeth Hewer

If I tell my bones they're a cage
maybe they'll keep this
snarling heart contained. — Elisabeth Hewer

Here are the things that do fill me: a night sky,
endless and rammed with stars. The soaring
of a soundtrack over a triumphal point
in a film trailer, something inside me stirring
like an animal. Dark roads and cosy cars,
and imagining having somebody I loved
enough to distract me in the front seat.
Helplessness, sometimes. Anger, always. — Elisabeth Hewer

Other people make angels out of boys like you.

But I? Choked-up lungs and erratic flight; I
leave too fast to find the light. — Elisabeth Hewer

I could do it. I could rip your life out like a fury, like a beast.
I could stand over you with my red hands
and lap the heart out of your hollow chest.
I'm a wolf, I'm a woman, I'm a building hurricane.
I'm whole-way sharp teeth, soul-sick wet claws.
I say "love me," and you say, "you're killing me."
I say, "i'd die for you," and you say," You'd kill for me - that's not the same thing. — Elisabeth Hewer