We Shall Be Monsters Quotes

“We choose which stories to tell our daughters,” I said, looking down at the cup in my hands, “but not which ones they’ll believe.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“I am both magical and mundane, and I too will go on until the end and the end isn’t now.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“It is a depraved and immoral thing, they said, to reject what your body was made for. What you were made for, the only thing. A monster, they called me. So a monster I became.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“Why did we have so many words for things that weren’t there but still scared us anyway? The”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“I did not know what a monster was. Or what made a monster different from a hero if both wanted to kill the other. Perhaps it had to do with intention?”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“Together. My favorite word of all.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“Not all true things stay true forever, sweet. Remember that.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“But Hope was terrible too,” Mother said, “because it made you believe that you could have things you could never have. Or be someone you could never be. And when a Hope failed to come true, it was worse than if you’d never had hoped at all.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“childless woman is a thing that arouses suspicion and distrust.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“hadn’t believed this particular monster was real, but I suppose every monster is real for someone, somewhere. Why would we bother to tell fairy tales if no part of them was to be believed at all?”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“You think killing makes you a hero, but really it makes you a killer, nothing more.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“How sad, I’d said, to be a monster in a world with a hero lurking in every shadow.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“Pretend-brave was still brave as long as you did the thing you were trying to be brave enough to do.”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters

“Why must the terrible and the terrific be one and the same?”
― Alyssa Wees, We Shall Be Monsters