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

“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