Sea Monsters Quotes

“There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and the kind of romantic who remains alone, waiting and waiting for the right person to arrive, a person who may not even exist. It was too early to know which kind I would be.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

“If I stayed in much longer I was certain I would dissolve, there were probably hundreds of dissolved bodies in the ocean, swirling around with the shells and seaweed, that’s what happens when you immerse yourself too fully in any vastness, you eventually become part of it, part of the landscape, quite literally.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

“He had started out as a snag, a snag in the composition; from one moment to the next, there was no other way of putting it, he had begun to appear in my life back in the city. And since all appearances are ultimately disturbances, this disturbance needed investigating.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

“Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

“It didn’t take long for me to notice him in a corner, a ring of silence around him, his sharp Slavic features bringing a new geometry to the scene, and slanted eyes, almost reptilian, that drank in but didn’t give out.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

“At dinner he continued to speak of stormy seas and overloaded boats, of cargo being taken places against its will. In the Antikythera shipwreck, for instance, there was one lost horse, a great marble statue that proved too difficult to heave out, and it tumbled back into the depths, choosing the sea, and was there to this day, the horse that gave them the slip, galloping along endless banks of seabed, kicking up whole paragraphs of sand.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters