Red Moon
Benjamin Percy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.”
“Her husband once said that he believed some sort of mathematical equation could be applied to life - since the longer you lived, the greater its seeming velocity. She always attributed this to familiarity. If you kept the same habits - and if you lived in the same place, worked in the same place - then you no longer spent a lot of time noticing. Noticing things - and trying to make sense of them - is what makes time remarkable. Otherwise, life blurs by, as it does now, so that she has difficulty keeping track of time at all, one day evaporating into the next.”
“The girl remains on the ground. He looks at her and she looks at him and the air feels at once static and loaded, as if there is some kind of undersound his ear can't quite decipher. Like after a bell rings. That's how it is between them. There is something celestial about her, her skin a pale color, but a paleness of the softest gray-white imaginable, as if she had been soaking for years in a bath of moonlight.”
“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation between the living and the dead, a child born with a mud wasp's nest for a heart and its eyes already pocketed with dust, ready to be clapped into a box and dropped down a hole.”
“What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.”
“Violence defines humanity and determines headlines and elections and borders, the whole world boiled down to who hits whom harder.”
“They’re always wrong in the movies.”
“They wear masks that hide how hairy they are on the inside.”
“The world is a sewer of lies. We’re all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.”
“The letting of blood, for him, like the letting of semen.”
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Book Keywords:
semen, inside, shapeshifters, masks, sewer, werewolves, movies, blood, appetite, lies, hunger, hairy, world
