# Quote — Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

> It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.

- Author: [Katherine Dunn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn.md)
- Book: [Geek Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunn#Geek_Love_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/it-may-be-that

## More from this book

> The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/the-molasses-voice.md)

> And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/and-they-looked.md)

> Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/katherine-dunn/geek-love/papa-had-looked.md)