Simply Sam

“Monsters did exist. They didn’t hide under the bed, though. They stormed through the fucking door and stole away everything we loved.
To defeat a monster, I had to become one.”
― Keri Lake, Ricochet

“You got a name?” she asked. “Several.” “What does Tiber call you?” “Smarmy bastard, most of the time.”
― Jordan Rivet, A Traitor at the Stone Court

“Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own eyes, your own tongue, while they kept talking all the while, smiling, horrible. And then they would take the knife and go inside your house, to your children, while you lay outside blind and choking and helpless even to scream. If someone we loved was taken by the walkers, the only thing we knew to hope for them was death, and it could only be a hope.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.”
― Joshua Gaylord, When We Were Animals