He Who Fights with Monsters 4 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #4)

by Shirtaloon

My life is aching for some normalcy.” “Well, mine is aching for some weirdness.”

“If you’re going to go back with us to my world,” Farrah said, “then you’ll have to learn the same lessons that he did. Starting with yes, he can just go around killing people.”

“If this world had gods,” Farrah said, “I’d be praying that they were calling to talk about your brother.”

“Kai, it’s a magic helicopter,” Erika said. “You don’t register it. You fly it upside down while yelling ‘woo’ like you’re Nature Boy Ric Flair.”

He never had the courage to be himself and live with people liking or hating it. You did. Aggressively. That always intimidated him.”

“It was high school, Jason. We were all monsters.

“There was a time that you needed me, and I wasn’t there. That’s not happening again. If this is your world now, then I’m in. All the way.”

“He told me that your world was a chance to reinvent myself. To become the person I wanted to be, without the baggage of my old life. I didn’t always succeed, but I always tried.”

“I need time, Eri,” he said again, still staring out at the ocean. “I’m dangerously off balance and I can’t afford to be. My mistakes can really hurt people and my failures…”

“I know who I was here and who I was there. I need the time and the space to figure out who I am in both. Who I want to be, and how to find my way to that.”