Crypt of the Moon Spider Quotes

“I didn't use to be this way. I was happy when I was a child. I had such grand ideas about how life would be. What happened to me? What happened to us?"
"We grew up.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“Maggie always did appreciate a bit of symmetry.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“What an unmusical thing, to be a human being. She had a nagging memory of something grander, buried in the human meat of her brain. It rolled over, struggling to be recalled.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“He’d been raised in violence, and to Charlie it functioned as a kind of language, one through which he could communicate the purest expressions of his heart.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“Memories you thought were yours are sometimes fabrications, constructed to protect you from the truth. Discovering what’s real is often a traumatic experience.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“The open hatchway was a cauldron of steam and light; it looked like an artist’s rendition of the entrance to Hell.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“She felt a curious sluggishness, a kind of separation, as though she’d become loosened from time and was jostling in its socket.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“Running across the tops of the trees, she turned her eye to the blue and green sliver of Earth. She peered down through the long gulf until she found the little girl staring back up at her, a flag of life in the blowing wheat.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“The thought crawled out of the wet black loam of her brain like some horrid new insect. It scrabbled unchecked through her mind, eating everything clean and good in her, laying clutches of wet, mucousy eggs in its stead.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“She felt like an insect walking across the thin shell of the world. The slightest breeze might send her spinning into the endless night.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“Veronica recalled a local myth, which held that the moon was the inhabited skull of a long-dead god who once trod the dark pathways of space like a king through his star-curtained palace.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider

“He smiled at her. "Well. It's melancholy, I suppose.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, Crypt of the Moon Spider