My Name is Monster
Katie Hale
Top 10 Best Quotes
“…my baby’s small face is screwed up and it’s her who screams. She opens her little mouth and she lets out this big scream, and it’s like she has claws, and with that scream her claws take hold and she pulls me towards her. And I want her, I’ve never wanted anything more. I want to hold her and press my nose to her and learn every little bit of her.”
“…it is easier to think about hating people than about wanting them.”
“…not speaking can sometimes be just as loud as saying words.”
“Whenever we plant seeds, I like to hold them in my hands before putting them in the soil, just so I can look at them – little dots that will somehow grow into food that will help to keep us alive. How can such a tiny thing carry so much bigness inside it? I don’t understand how it works, but I love that it does.”
“When I climbed the mountain, I was not afraid. What I mean is, I hadn’t learned how to be afraid of things that were only pictures in my head. What I mean is, I think I might be braver than Mother.”
“That’s what Mother calls it when she has to say something bad: breaking it. I never knew why before, but now I understand, how the words can make a crack down the middle of an ordinary morning, then push the two edges of it apart until the crack is a river and there is no getting back across it to how things used to be. And now I have to break today.”
“Surviving is an endless task, but in these moments, I let the last dregs of the day settle into place around me, and the effort seems worth almost everything.”
“Mother says I’m healing. She says this means getting better, like when my bedroom door handle broke and she fixed it to make it the way it was before. But I’m not going back to the way I was before, and anyway I don’t think that’s what healing really means, because Mother says her wolf-dog bite is healed, but she still has pink marks on her leg, so maybe healing really means making something different. Maybe getting better doesn’t mean going back to how it used to be, but moving forwards instead…”
“Mother has always told me to let things go, as though thoughts were objects I could hold and then not hold, like watching something fall from very high up till it’s too far away to see where it lands. I do not know how to le go of thoughts like that…”
“Maybe there is no such thing, only walls and a roof, a place secure enough to allow sleep. But how can I keep going if there is nowhere I am going to? How can I grow again without any roots?”
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Book Keywords:
hate, roots, seeds, silence, isolation, babies, plating, loneliness, surviving, people, letting-go, bravery, new-parent, home, life, healing, baby, bad-news, want, breaking-news, afraid
