Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy #1)

by J.M. Miro

What governs a life, if not chance?

everyone leaves you, eventually. In this world, you only got yourself.

Justice is just a bucket with a hole in the bottom, as my father used to say.

Scared is just your head telling your heart to be careful. It’s not a bad thing. It’s what you do with it that matters.”

“Monsters are mutations that don’t lead anywhere. They’re too extreme to be replicated.”

If you live long enough, you cease to be human, you cease to understand anything that fills the human heart. For the heart is made of time, and consumed by time, by the knowledge of its own eventual death, and

“you waste all this time dreaming of where you came from, cause you know no one comes from nothing. And you tell yourself, if you only knew, then maybe you could see a reason for how you got to be the way you are. Why your life looks like it does. But there isn’t any reason, not really.”