3 Quotes by Jenny Hval

I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said.'Nice colour,' I answered.'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidden fruit.''Might be. But I've eaten some too now. Does that mean you have to kick me out of your house?'I held the half-eaten apple out to her. She burst out laughing and pointed out at the factory: 'Does this look like paradise or what?

Her skin was soft, softer than I remembered, as if she was rotten too, a fallen Eve. Under us I could hear the apples rumble. Not a real sound, but a sort of internal buzzing, like how you can imagine hearing nails and hair growing or buds opening.

But my dreams are full of apples, and in the dark my body slowly transforms into fruit: tonsils shrinking to seeds and lungs to cores.