“No one looks at you when you are ugly. You know you are because you are looked through—rendered invisible to the ones who look away, and made into spectacle by the ones who devour your decaying meat with disgust. ”

“I cannot and do not wish to master, overcome, and transform my body. I can and must live with my lupus, accept my body, and ask to be accepted as I am.”

“Tarwater drowns the body, but many hands from the corpus of criticism have been holding Bishop’s corpse underwater.”