Freydís Moon > Quotes

“Sometimes shame is a lesson. Most of the time, it’s just a way for us to hate ourselves for the things we want.”
― Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc

“There is no Hell, priest. No Heaven, no after, no cometh from. There is only here, the place we've been given, populated with your tiny, abandoned selves searching aimlessly for recognition, for sustenance, for our father's long-gone purpose. You were created out of nothing, destined to become nothing.”
― Freydis Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc

“I’m alive because I survived myself, I guess.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“I think I’ll always want to die. Some part of me, the weaker part,”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Turn the other cheek. Yeah I get it -"

"Allow God to act on your behalf," Ariel said sternly... "Make room for divine intervention.”
― Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

“You were a miracle,” they murmured, smiling against his mouth.  Eli flashed a wicked, handsome grin. “And you were my revival.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“but enough to remind them that their mother had been a life raft to anyone and everyone but them. The dredges of society had found sanctuary with Rosa yet her own offspring had been held to impossible standards, expected to be righteous and pure, selfless and sacrificial. They had grown inside her, so she’d expected them to be exactly what she’d anticipated—beautiful woman; loving daughter; caretaker of the family matriarch.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Homes left and remade, countries carried from one place to another, rituals remembered in tangled languages.”
― Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

“It was a frightening thing, being in the middle of nowhere with someone who paid attention.”
― Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

“Eligos, duke of Hell, caring for Kye, a nobody he’d found praying in a rundown apartment? No. They certainly wouldn’t let themself believe that. If they did, they’d have to face the love nestled like a wasp in their chest; hate chipped away and replaced by antennae, wings, stinger.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Let me break you,” he whispered. “You’ll come back together better than you are now.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“But Eligos had existed before Eden. He’d seen a billion different versions of beauty. And Kye Lovato was fucking gorgeous.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Sometimes I think you forget what I am.”  “I never forget.” The lie came easily.  Demon, false deity, fallen angel.  Irreplaceable lover, possessive elitist, wild-eyed man.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Boss babe material.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“But they’d gone home because home couldn’t hurt them when it was hollow, right? Home couldn’t crawl under their skin if it was carved out like a Jack-o-Lantern and left to rot. Couldn’t break against them like it used to, and demand the impossible from them, and call them wrong.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“You prayed for deliverance. Begged God to send a message. Please, Lord, hear me.” Their voice overlayed atop his, tumbling unnaturally from his lips like a warped recording. He wrapped the bandage around their arm, over the curve of their thumb, and lifted his eyes to meet theirs. “But I heard you first.”  Kye swallowed. “And you are?”  “Not God.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“I can teach you patience; I can give you power.” Laughter gusted across her neck, gritty and tempered. “I can make you worse,” he whispered, pressing his clothed cock between her legs, “if you let me.”
― Freydís Moon, Wolf, Willow, Witch

“I’m not a prize.”  “You’re the prize.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Well, call me Tucker Carlson, because I must be a fuckin’ idiot, but aren’t you gay?”
― Freydís Moon, Wolf, Willow, Witch

“How could someone rested understand their sleeplessness? How could someone satiated commiserate with their hunger?”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“It was funnier how often Eli had to remind himself that loving them had been accidental. Because sometimes, most of the time, Kye felt perfectly placed.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Grief, and betrayal, and fine-tuned desperation were learned, lived, and endured. People got better from a burst cyst, from an undercooked pork chop, from an impromptu breakup. But no one fully recovered from loss like this. They simply adapted to the sound of it, calloused to the feel of it.”
― Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc

“Abandonment. Unfinished business. There was always something or someone that caused a house to want, to ache, to make itself known. There was always a reason for anger and lust and becoming lonesome”
― Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc

“Power was a borrowed thing.”
― Freydís Moon, Wolf, Willow, Witch

“Home is a carried thing. Given and taken.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“I saw your wings.”
― Freydís Moon, Exodus 20: 3

“We’re magical fuckbuddies,” they snapped.  Laughter barked from him. “Is that right?”  “What the hell would you call it?”  He crossed the room in a puff of smoke and placed his lips close to their ear. “The start of a really sexy cult.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“The house was a corpse, but everything that’d once called it home still lived, somehow, wandering through its skeleton like mice in a castle.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“He was deadly handsome. Like an expensive gun. Like a jaguar.”
― Freydís Moon, With a Vengeance

“Aren't you... aren't you, like, a pastor or something?"

"No, I'm someone with an idea. That's all."

"Uh-huh. And rebuilding this church is your idea? Restoring faith?"

"Yes, and providing access."

Diego finished his beer. "To God?"

"To faith. People don't lose faith, Diego. They're forced away from it. Ostracized from the very fabric of it. This place can change that.”
― Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3