The Music of Monsters Quotes

“Honestly,” his brows pinched together, his grip on Atlas’s hair tightening, “how did you get like. . . this?” “Wouldn’t you like to know,” Atlas said, his voice low, “Weather Boy?”
― Ashton Morgan, The Music of Monsters

“The taller of the sisters, he recalled, looked him over warily, her reddish hair twisted in some complicated braid, brows knitting together the wrong way. She didn’t have the small scar on her top lip, the constant, angry pinch of her brows missing. Of course, because it wasn’t her. Instead of a look of anger swimming in her deep coloured eyes–eyes that turned molten in the sunlight–a pinprick of fear struck like lightning inside her. His lip curled higher.”
― Ashton Morgan, The Music of Monsters

“But then the light hit the back of Iris’s hair, a golden-blue halo circling her features. The single braid she wore twisted around the side of her neck, dipping down to her waist, the small curls that framed her face an ethereal gold. She turned to face him fully, then, meeting his too-long stare. And the halo was gone.”
― Ashton Morgan, The Music of Monsters

“The world seemed to light anew when he looked at her, with an intensity like striking a match; a sudden bloom in light and heat, here for a moment and gone with the next breath. Even if it had the capacity to set the forest on fire, it was just as easily extinguished.”
― Ashton Morgan, The Music of Monsters