“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood”
“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
“Violence does not always take physical form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
“The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222)”
“Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”
“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”