The Worm and His Kings Quotes

“Fear is a symptom. It happens when our old perspective breaks down.” Corene stared hard into Monique’s eyes. “Sometimes we have to break down to see things in new ways.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“They sat here giggling while their pet monster snatched women off the street.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“They were carvers, like Doctor Sam, all greedy fingers and knives in their smiles.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“Even dead men had more freedom than she did.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“And here, in the darkest place, Monique found monsters.
Maybe if her parents knew how far she’d fallen, they would at last regret having bashed their only child.
Unlikely. That was her imagination preying on her thoughts with something more painful than monsters in the dark-The illusion that her parents could accept her.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

“She’s part of the nothing now.” Hot tears flooded Monique’s cheeks. She tried to swallow the burning lump in her throat. “We fed her to the empty place.”
“No, No Lady smiled wide and shook her head. “Most of the universe is empty. We feel stretches of the worm, and she’s with him now, and full and infinatellsetsfree-”
Her words smashed together and thinned like Phoebe across time, becoming nothing.”
― Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings