“Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.” PeopleWantTryingLanguageMouthsBoxesFogMistyDescribe MyselfCategorizationKeeping Your Mouth Shut Author:Kalan Sherrard
“I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.” IfsThinkingWantKindDifficultSoundBornGoneStrangeFitMouthsBoxesAssumptionAuditionsEthiopia Author:Ruth Negga
“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.” HumansBodySoundVoiceLinesAirShapesMouthsBoxesMediumsPoetry IsChestsComing OutHuman Body Author:Robert Pinsky
“She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.” MindHandsSweetKissingMouthsBoxesCornersEastTinyLovelyPuzzlingWendyLovely Lady Book:Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition) Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.” LongMovingHalfHugeSafeMouthsOkayThirdsBoxesFinishedBrokeChocolateBitesKnivesPlasticIvyUnpacking Author:Kim Harrison
“He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesMomentsWould BeHouseMemoriesWonderWallMouthsBoxesDustBagsBuriedCatchingTextbooksPacking Book:If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.” KnowsFeelsMomentsRememberLyingHappenedBrokenMouthsTestsBreathsCloudsBoxesWideHolesSnowIceCurseGirlfriendCheatingDriversBusLunchEnginesFeel BetterEssaysZombieJuiceTobaccoStainsCrawlingCondomSneakersGreaseCrayonFlakesTiltShuffleBus Driver Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.” FirstsMadeShowsPleasureRoomsOfficeMouthsProductionsBoxesNosesFedsBossYellowCarpetDroppingCrumbsPoodlesDoughnutDuncanMagic Bleeds Book:Magic Bleeds Source: Magic Bleeds