Lysley Tenorio > Quotes

“...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.”
― Lysley Tenorio, Monstress

“I think I might understand the way time works: how its passing is impossible to see but when it's gone, you feel it.”
― Lysley Tenorio, Monstress

“And this is the truth I don't want to know: that the ones who leave and the ones who get left keep living their lives, whatever the distance between. But not me. When I was outside in the night, I watched my family; I knew they were fine. When she thought she was alone, I watched Isa; I listened to her pray. For the rest of my life, I would be like this. It's the difference, I think, between all of them and me; even when I was gone, I was here.”
― Lysley Tenorio, Monstress

“Fortunado had never struck a person before, but there were times in his life he wondered what it might be like, and now he knew: the force of everything you are in a single gesture at a single moment; the hope that it will be enough and the fear that it won't. No different than a kiss.”
― Lysley Tenorio, Monstress

“It’s not my place to make terrible truths easier to hear; all I do is reveal them.”
― Lysley Tenorio, Monstress: Stories

“I am not really here.”
― Lysley Tenorio, The Son of Good Fortune