3 Quotes & Sayings By Danez Smith

Danez Smith is the author of the critically acclaimed novel "A Little Life," a New York Times bestseller. He has received a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, and a MacArthur genius grant. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. In 2014, Smith won the National Book Award for Fiction for his debut novel A Little Life Read more

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The dog upstairs won't shut up, but I can't hate him, he's up there alone all day, making noise must be the only way he knows he's not a ghost. Danez Smith
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I invited him over and he stayed forever. I feed him all my bread, the old peppers turned to mush & fluorescent mold, the chicken thighs unthawed & boneless. He ask for more so I give him my left leg. He ask for more & I give him my lungs & lips. More still, and there goes my bladder. He eats it all, all of me, eats the whole damn house, & I live forever in him or maybe it's the other way around. I swallowed. I swallowed him whole & didn't even notice him thrashing inside me. Danez Smith