Hailey Piper > Quotes

“To sing it is different. What cannot be spoken may find a home in music.”
― Hailey Piper, A Game in Yellow

“Somewhere between terror and madness lies ecstasy,” Smoke said. “Or is it that somewhere between terror and ecstasy lies madness?”
― Hailey Piper, A Game in Yellow

“Even dead men had more freedom than she did.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“Carmen relished the site of Blanca sliding from her clothes like the sun cresting from storm clouds.”
― Hailey Piper, A Game in Yellow

“I am what you made me. Now you're going to regret it.”
― Hailey Piper, Queen of Teeth

“Each generation expected too much of their children, who had greater numbers yet far less power.”
― Hailey Piper, No Gods For Drowning

“REWIND OR DIE Midnight Exhibit Vol. 1 Infested - Carol Gore Benny Rose: The Cannibal King - Hailey Piper - Jan. 23 Cirque Berserk - Jessica Guess - Feb. 20 Hairspray and Switchblades - V. Castro - Feb. 20 Sole Survivor - Zachary Ashford - Mar. 26 Food Fright - Nico Bell - Mar. 26 Hell’s Bells - Lisa Quigley - May 28 The Kelping - Jan Stinchcomb - May 28 Trampled Crown - Kirby Kellogg - Jun. 25 Dead and Breakfast - Gary Buller - Jun. 25 Blood Lake Monster - Renee Miller - Jul. 23 The Catcatcher - Kevin Lewis - Jul. 23 All You Need is Love and a Strong Electric Current - Mackenzie Kiera - Aug. 27 Tales From the Meat Wagon - Eddie Generous - Aug. 27 Hooker - M. Lopes da Silva - Oct. 29 Offstage Offerings - Priya Sridhar - Oct. 29 Dead Eyes - EV Knight - Nov. 26 Dancing on the Edge of a Blade - Todd Rigney - Dec. 12 Midnight Exhibit Vol. 2 - Dec. 12”
― Hailey Piper, Benny Rose, the Cannibal King

“Sarcasm, her only defense when hopelessly outmatched against a rain of hellfire.”
― Hailey Piper, Queen of Teeth

“If you knew you were dying, what would you do?”
― Hailey Piper, Queen of Teeth

“Act II was dangerous all by itself if read too far, but Act I was the seductive scalpel, its tantalizing mundanity lulling its reader into a false sense of security. Act II could make zealots. Act I and Act II together could make something else.”
― Hailey Piper, A Game in Yellow

“And here, in the darkest place, Monique found monsters.
Maybe if her parents knew how far she’d fallen, they would at last regret having bashed their only child.
Unlikely. That was her imagination preying on her thoughts with something more painful than monsters in the dark-The illusion that her parents could accept her.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“The body would never be completely stable, but she was vicious where it counted. An anatomical mess, a beauty of blood and teeth and tentacles.”
― Hailey Piper, Queen of Teeth

“She’s part of the nothing now.” Hot tears flooded Monique’s cheeks. She tried to swallow the burning lump in her throat. “We fed her to the empty place.”
“No, No Lady smiled wide and shook her head. “Most of the universe is empty. We feel stretches of the worm, and she’s with him now, and full and infinatellsetsfree-”
Her words smashed together and thinned like Phoebe across time, becoming nothing.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“They sat here giggling while their pet monster snatched women off the street.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“They were carvers, like Doctor Sam, all greedy fingers and knives in their smiles.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“I got a whole mouth in my vagina and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Hailey Piper, Queen of Teeth

“Fear is a symptom. It happens when our old perspective breaks down.” Corene stared hard into Monique’s eyes. “Sometimes we have to break down to see things in new ways.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“Somewhere between Terror and Madness lies ecstasy.”
― Hailey Piper, A Game in Yellow

“Chainsaws can't solve all problems.”
― Hailey Piper, A Woman Built by Man