I Am the Swarm Quotes

“Good, says Sabine. Every girl needs her anger.
Every girl.
Needs her anger.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“There are streaks of dirt on the backs of my hands.
Like I've fought with something and won.

That is the thing
I choose to remember.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“The way the soft rain
touched every spent thing.
The way it fell on everything,
kissed everything, like everything
belonged to its falling,
like everything, living and dead,
deserved not to drown
but to drink.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“When his hands are on my skin, I remember why I have it. I remember that I am alive.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“it was also that the boy is too nice to me. Something about Cole was so familiar. The way he mocked me, loomed over me. The way he took what he wanted. Something about it felt safer.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“When you have lived in a house where around every corner there could be a puddle of blood, you learn to listen out for it: the sound of something terrible.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“It was cruel. Saving his name in my phone as antidote. Like he’s a thing. I’d never want someone to do that to me. But I did it to him.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“People always say stuff like that. You can call me anytime. Shout if you need anything. If I actually shouted. I wonder what would happen. If I actually shouted. It would be more like a scream. If I actually shouted. I would never stop shouting.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“I did it because I have wings inside me. And when they come. I have to feel things. I have to feel things I don’t want to feel.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“I have no choice but to stare into the swarm. No choice but to feel it.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“The way he looked at me. Is the opposite of a sticky beetle. The way he looked at me. Is like light poured over stone.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“They tell you: do not swim in the evening. They tell you not to go in too deep. The sea is beautiful. The sea will probably kill you. That is what my sister is like. That’s what her music is like.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“I never wanted to have children. I probably shouldn’t have had them.” Them. As if them isn’t me.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“The magic is passed down the line, a cursed family heirloom that nobody wants.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“Every girl.
Needs her anger.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm

“Black-velvet butterflies fill my room,
and when my eyes are open, I watch them,
and I let the wanting fill me.”
― Hayley Chewins, I Am the Swarm