Himagus Quotes

“Wow, it was beautiful. The chandeliers were
breathtaking, and pearls drizzled down. At first when I
saw people walk under them, I wondered if it hurt, but
the pearls vanished the moment they encountered the
floor or skin. The carpet was a beautiful crimson shade
covered with rose petals, and tiny crystals were layered on
it, reflecting colors. The dining table looked about twelve
feet long with golden swirls and magnificent designs on it,
and it had all the food I could imagine, some I didn’t even
know. The drinks being served were blood and wine. Each
and every chair looked like a throne, but the real throne
was . . . it was . . . whoa. All the ladies wore such beautiful
gowns, but they were all dull and dark.”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus

“A nightmare,” I explained. “I was stabbing you in the
chest.” I cursed myself for not coming up with a better lie.
“Just a nightmare, love,” he said, pressing me closer to
him, hugging, and then his eyebrows squished together
as pain shot through him. His eyes flickered across the
knife with blood splattered on it and realized what I had
been planning to do. I couldn’t breathe and my heart
started racing again. I couldn’t move a single muscle as I
internally screamed, and horror completely paralyzed me.
What would he do now? But he just hugged me tighter
and laughed.”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus

“Death was straightforward and undemanding. Life, on
the other hand, was harsh and burdensome.”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus

“I won’t be fooled, William, and your soul can be left
questioning my love for you. I can make peace with the
fact that I am the villain in your story as you are in mine.
Fate is such a traitor. I know you won’t do anything to
bring my world back, and how can you bring the fucking
dead to life? You talk impossible and expect my naive
teen ass to fall for it, all in the name of bullshit like love.
And even if by some miracle you could, you would never.
I understand the story, William: you love me, tell me
that everything will be fine even though it could never
be, and then one day I’ll forget what you did to me, how
you slaughtered my people, no, no!”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus

“He saw our . . . talent and figured we wouldn’t kill
unless needed. We had the patience and calmness to
think rather than just act. We could adjust ourselves. He
needed that, someone who could fit in the human world
and figure out a world as complicated as this one. He
needed someone who would lead the asses on our planet
and teach the smart shortcuts mankind has used. Teach
them your way of living. You humans—or what we call
you in our language, Earthians—don’t have any powers
except the sharpest minds. You wiped out animals, and
there are six billion or more of you on this planet—”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus

“I guess that’s
what makes us monsters. We don’t love, we hate, and
with physical love . . . it isn’t supposed to be about feeling
safe and sound and molding into each other feeling like
a whole with them, as if you were meant to be together.
No, you are supposed to be scared and terrified. You don’t
ever want to be used that way. It kills them inside. It’s
cold and hard, and the child gets terminated in the wombor left somewhere to starve or freeze to death, or maybe
be killed by someone who does the job for fun. That’s
probably what our moms did, except we survived, and a
lot do this way. Of course, for a fact I know I didn’t just
walk to a cow and find milk after I was born. I don’t know
how Will and I survived, but if you do till you are eight,
you’ve made it. Either you’ll get sold to work for someone
or find a way to live on your own. Learn witchcraft—
thousand ways to go, but almost each and every one of
them will have one thing in common. I guess just being
Himagusian does it. We are all taught to be evil. There
is no other way to survive, but me and William did. We
didn’t kill, we just got our way usually by pissing them off.
They’d come for us demanding our termination, trying to
do it, but we were always too fast and clever, and maybe
more humane”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus

“Our world does and has been doing everything
opposite of mankind, David answered.”
― Kerat Jhaj, Himagus