Shawn C. Butler > Quotes

“The space between two strong women is the most dangerous place in the known universe,”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

“His eyebrows lifted behind his glasses, so my reflection jumped. I hated talking to people when I couldn’t see their eyes. It was like trying to have a conversation during the COVID pandemic when everyone wore masks and you couldn’t read anyone’s emotions.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

“Giant gabbro stone balls called petrospheres are scattered all over the southwestern states of Costa Rica. Nobody knows who made them, but the consensus is that they were signs of tribal power, wealth and male fertility. It’s not hard to figure out. If Costa Rica was covered with almond-shaped pits filled with the remains of men who’d accidentally wandered into them because men love holes, you’d think a matriarchal society once ruled the region and men were dumbasses. You see giant spheres all over the Diquís Delta and you think, well, those are testicles. And men are dumbasses. It’s not rocket science.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

“We were so much more than just monsters and food and, sometimes, if you knew where to look, there was still magic in the world.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

“A-wah-rey. “It’s Japanese. The bittersweet feeling you have for a passing moment of transcendent beauty.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

“For the record, it’s hard to paddle with a head in your hands. There’s no good way to hold it, nothing that seems respectful. I couldn’t drag my lover’s head through the water by her hair, and I couldn’t paddle with one hand. Well, I could, but I’d have been there a while. So I arched my back and tucked her head under my chin so she faced forward”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

“It struck me how remote men’s lives are. Here was a friend who’d brought me to a place of miracles, who’d known my late wife and who was doing his best to be my friend, and I could barely touch him. Women were going to rule the world just because they could touch each other without wincing.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara