#maud casey

[doctornerdington]

“It is true there are things I would prefer not to discuss. For example: all the things you want to know.” -- Maud Casey, City of Incurable Women

[virgin-martyr]

(...) all your bodies, ghost-filled. Bodies, you think, are like haunted houses.

Maud Casey, excerpt from City of Incurable Women

[existential-celestial]

I was born with a reading list I will never finish.

Maud Casey

[thefaehomunculus]

[virgin-martyr]

Our bodies, my body, as damp as dark as any other damp, dark place; damper, darker.

Maud Casey, excerpt from City of Incurable Women

[virgin-martyr]

You may not have been the pretty one, but soon you will be known as the escape artist of the city of incurable women; it was said you could rip a straitjacket to pieces with your teeth.

Maud Casey, excerpt from City of Incurable Women

[virgin-martyr]

We were always on the verge; the difference is the best girls are fluent in the language of their pain.

Maud Casey, excerpt from City of Incurable Women

[virgin-martyr]

She'd grown bored by the Lives of the Saints, its guiding hand forever moving her toward a moral. The reflection at the end of each entry could be boiled down: Poverty is good, suffering and death better, submit, submit, submit. There was much talk of the odor of sanctity, and though she didn't know exactly what that smelled like, she knew an odor never smelled good. Sanctity, even worse.

Maud Casey, excerpt from City of Incurable Women