Freaks Quotes

“It was about then that she realised that the eel’s skin wasn’t quite normal. The few miserable specimens she had seen at the fishmarket had been a grey-green colour, as sickly-looking as the river water they’d been hooked from. This one was bright red. And completely smooth all the way down. No gills, no fins, no head.”
― Kieran Larwood, The Peculiars

“It crawled into your lungs like poured concrete, then sat there leaking poisonous chemicals into your blood.”
― Kieran Larwood, The Peculiars

“The splatters and splashes on the mud gradually closed over like a wound healing. The only sign that Till had even existed was her tattered picking sack, and an echo of her last shriek drifting along the river.”
― Kieran Larwood, The Peculiars

“Behind her came a cacophony of clanks and hisses, drowning out her terrified screams as she felt something cold and hard and serrated close around her ankle and pull.”
― Kieran Larwood, The Peculiars