The Monster Quotes

“Thank you. Let me put them in water.” “What’s the point?” He groaned, still obviously struggling with nicotine withdrawal. “They’ll die at some point anyway.” “Just like us,” I answered with a small smile. “Death is not a reason to stop living.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“I love you,” I whispered. “I fucking live for you,” Sam retorted.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Love is a risk. It’s a storm that either disrupts your life or clears your path. Sometimes it does both at the same time. Focus on getting the guy. Everything else will fall into place.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Not until you tell me that it’s real. That I’m just not a conquest. That I mean something to you.” “You don’t mean something to me,” he countered. “You mean everything to me. Jesus Christ, I need to get inside you before I fucking die.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“It was peculiar. How both bad and good habits were born from boredom. How they turned into an obsession, an addiction, before you knew it. And how taking back control from them became a habit in itself.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“I may have been a murderer, an underground mob boss, and a savage with no morals to speak of, but I was also whipped to the bone where my adoptive mother was concerned. “I’m the same usual shade of fucked-up as I’ve always been,”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“If revenge and punishment were forms of art, my work would be all over the Louvre.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“See you tomorrow, Monster.” “Nix,” he nodded his goodbye. I all but made it back home in a tornado and Googled his nickname for me, elated and terrified and pleased and joyous. Nix: A water being, half-human, half-fish, that lives in a gorgeous underwater palace and mingles with humans by assuming a variety of attractive physical forms (usually as a fair maiden). Nix was a female monster. Sam still thought of us as the same. Dark, unpredictable creatures, lurking in plain sight. Now that he let me in, I was going to destroy every single one of his walls and finally make him mine.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“There is nothing to find. Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. There’s something liberating about knowing your own bones, all the things you are capable of. Being unapologetically yourself makes you invincible.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“You know better than anyone bumpy starts don’t guarantee a terrible journey. In fact, the paths with the best scenery are the ones where you have to go through the mud.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“For your information, you’re the only person to bring the crazy out in me.” “Dangerous dick tends to do that to good girls.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Lust lingers, love stays. Lust is impatient, love waits. Lust burns, love warms. Lust destroys, but love? Love kills. S.A.B.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“I bit her lower lip until I split it open, her warm, metallic blood trickling into my mouth. She tensed but didn’t break the kiss. Break the fucking kiss, Aisling. Show me I’m too much for you. I sucked on her blood, pulling her entire lip into my mouth, and she let me,”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Ma’am, I’m afraid—” “Don’t be afraid. Fear is never a good look.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“I know, sweetheart.” His tone turned soft, scratchy. “Can I do anything for you?” I asked. “Can you climb on top of me and ride me?” “No.” “Then you can’t do anything for me, Nix.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Oh, Monster.” “Mine.” He leaned down, brushing my hair from my ear, biting the lobe softly. “Mine, mine, mine. Forever mine,”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Belle is waiting for me outside,” I warned, panting hard, so wet my thighs were sticking together. “Belle can go fuck herself. You’re mine now, and I’m celebrating our engagement in my favorite place—inside you.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Somehow, I’d let the worst happen. I continued loving him from afar, like the sun loved the moon. Coexisting, but distantly. Eternally star-crossed, but never close enough for comfort.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“He lit up his cigarette. His gothic, wintry gray eyes felt like ice cubes rolling down my skin.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Huh,” I sighed into his mouth, “La petite mort.” He tore his lips from mine, frowning at me. “Say what, now?” “La petite mort,” I repeated. “A brief unconsciousness. A little death, in French. That’s what they call that beat after an orgasm, sometimes.” My French governess had told me that. Sam’s eyes twinkled with so much delight, my chest flared with pride. His smiles were like human handprints. Each one was just different enough to be completely unique. “You, Aisling Fitzpatrick, are a lovely torture.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“And standing there, while Sam was in the operating room, hanging in the balance between life and death, everything was crystal clear to me. If you loved somehow, you had to give them a second chance. Not for them. For you.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“You are dumb. But it’s okay. You’re hot and
ooze that look-at-me-I’m-dangerous vibe, so I’m sure you’ll find someone.”
“Don’t forget rich.”
“Not by my standards. Just try not to make conversation. You’re not very good at it.”
“Based on you dry humping my leg like a b*tch in heat five seconds ago, I’m sure I’ll be able to keep them entertained some other way.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“dildo.”
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“Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“The heart was a monster. That’s why it was locked behind our ribs, in a cage.”
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“softly.”
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“Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. There’s something liberating about knowing your own bones, all the things you are capable of. Being unapologetically yourself makes you invincible.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster

“Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself. There’s something liberating about knowing your own bones, all the things you are capable of. Being unapologetically yourself makes you invincible.” His”
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“men before”
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“Chris shifted behind me and began grinding against my ass. He was hard, and I was over it. Over everything, really.”
― L.J. Shen, The Monster