Monstress, Volume 8 Quotes

“Histories are like memories: important details get left out, the parts that people think don’t matter…but that actually matter most of all.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Does your mouth hold a blade or a tongue?”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Remind me why we are here?!!”

“To return home!”

“Maybe home is overrated!”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Ubasti granted us that greatest of gifts so that we might never be denied the ever-changing wonders of her universe. For what is curiosity but a question that never ends? A journey where the only destination is possibility?”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“May your death be everlasting, halfwolf.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“You’re too angry, too mean to be controlled!”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“A city doesn’t run on candles and dreams, nekomancer.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Cats built the temples that the old gods occupy. They cleared the land that the old gods farm. They bred the prey that the old gods eat. And when the old gods arrived, cats retreated so they wouldn’t be food.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“To quote the poets…to speak to the past requires courage. Isn’t that right, dear Tam-Tam?”

“Indeed, Namron. Especially in Ogolath.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Flesh makes us forget unity. We forget that we all come from the same place, and that none are beneath…and none are above. We forget that those who forced us into these bodies only wanted our obedience…and so they divided us.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“I cannot unhear the song that radiates from you.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Maybe your Smith felt sorry for the Defiled. Maybe you should, too.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Even in Hell…there are no absolutes.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“You, who mocked all feeling…how dare you be sentimental now?”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“In fact, the upper echelons of poets and nekomancers have both decreed that Ogolath is off-limits to all—not just cats, but any kindred, on pain of imprisonment or maiming. The very sort of decree, of course, that entices the curious and the intrepid.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“The impossible feels very real right now, Master Ren!”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“It is unfashionable to remember all that has been intentionally lost.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“We’ve reversed positions. I’m your monster now.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“When has there been anyone or anything truly good?”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Maybe that’s what growing up is…not being ashamed of your choices. Just accepting them. Of course I don’t know adults who can do that. Or Ancients. Or cats. Or even gods.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“She made us for our power. Maybe she loved us later, but the power came first, before the love.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“That light…does it mean…we’re all…connected…?”
― Marjorie Liu, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“Sometimes we love the things that bite us.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“You have an entire world as a prison. Same as the rest of us.”
― Marjorie Liu, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“There should be a jest in this, but perhaps it is just a miracle. Or a doom.”
― Marjorie Liu, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno

“See if you can take me without losing pieces of your own precious carnalities.”
― Marjorie Liu, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno