I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me Quotes

“TO THOSE WHO FIND FREEDOM IN BECOMING A MONSTER WHEN DENIED THE SPACE TO BE HUMAN”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“I didn't see a world for me without my art in it, where I didn't live this beauty and torment every single day.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me.

And she had the audacity to be mediocre.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“Even Chaos has rules. To receive, we must be willing to take. To win, you must be willing to fight. To drink in life itself, you must be willing to bleed.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“What is life but hunger and resilience? Persistent thriving no matter the conditions? What better kin to have?”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“What if I told you I wanted to be my most monstrous self all the time? What if I wanted to be a god?

Would you pray to me?”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“Girl's like me weren't to get tired or fall apart. I was supposed to be exceptional, every time.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“When the stage claimed my bones, I became an act of creation, soft steps to the tempo of breaths. We were a sea of the dead, the push and pull of the tide, the curling smoke in an opium den, and the rolling clouds over the Himalayas.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“As his gaze brushed my lips, I pictured him consecrating my blood to hungry roots in his garden. The moss in Elysium could make a home of my bones and I’d welcome it wholly just to feel permanent and part of something. The darkest part in me hungered for that brand of ruin.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“I would learn to use the beast, its teeth and claws, instead of letting them use me.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“I didn't see a world without my art in it, where I didn't live this beauty and torment every single day.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“And though he looked the part, I was monster enough for both of us. . . What an awful pair we made. I took his face between my hands and blessed him with a kiss.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“I was fragile, a mortal body stitched together with divine thread. We weren’t supposed to make a habit of swimming in the power of a god.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“That was what I sought — for the proto-god to wash away my confusion and tell me where to go next.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“. . . I had plunged into silence, swallowed by the void. It was everything I imagined it would be, a dancer finally put to rest, beholden to nothing and no one, no burning hunger to force my hand.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“I held my pose until the violins in my head finished their cries and there was applause in my blood.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“I was a monster succumbing to the hunt, a predator out for a kill. The world had let me starve for too long, and eventually, the hungry stop caring what we eat so long as we’re fed.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

“They sooner replaced me with someone unqualified than show me an ounce of grace when I needed it most.”
― Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me