Psycho Beasts Quotes

“Sweat, Suffer, Survive—A fun little remake of “Live, Laugh, Love.” Gotta respect the angsty creativity. Whoever had written it was definitely in their feels. Ten out of ten, inspired.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“The romance books I’d loved to read growing up had made men sound way less dramatic than they really were. Highly upsetting and unfortunate for women everywhere.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“You could run from male unwellness, but you couldn’t hide.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“In that moment, I learned something very important about myself: I had a praise kink.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“The crux of the problem was another man had pinned me against the wall and told me he owned me. Sure, a large part of me thought it was hot. But as Aran had eloquently said, “You know what is hotter? Respect.” T-shirt slogan material.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Serenity wasn’t the absence of conflict; it was the stillness within chaos.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“The therapist’s voice rose, which was highly unprofessional. “Have you at least stopped smoking, Aran? I know you were using the enchanted drug as a crutch.” “I’ve actually quit completely.” Dr. Palmer’s eyes widened with surprise, and her face softened for the first time during our appointment. “Wow, that is actually very impressive, Aran. I’m proud of you for facing your—” She stopped talking as Aran pulled out her pipe and took a long draw. “Just kidding. I can’t go ten minutes without it.” Dr. Palmer’s eyebrow twitched.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Thank the sun god she’s gone. I woke up to her choking out Jess, and she threatened to scalp me if I interfered.” “There, there.” I dried her tears and squeezed her gently with my still-very-broken arm. “She does it to all of us. It’s how she says, ‘I love you.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“No one had ever called me smart. No one had ever said, “Sadie, she’s a clever one. That girl has a bright future.” However, I’d been labeled mentally unhinged with homicidal impulses plenty of times. In fact, a teacher had once told me, “You’re going to die someday in a violent, terrifying way.” To be fair, I’d made a farting noise with my armpit every time she’d spoken, and had spread a rumor that she shit in the shower. I was thirteen, for sun god’s sake; what else was I supposed to do?”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“At this point, I would murder someone for a hot bath and a smutty book.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“It sucked that I was going to have to kill all four of my lovers later tonight, but someone had to do it.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“They’re basically your bitches. You aren’t their bitch,” I whispered while shadowboxing against an invisible opponent.
Memories flashed through my mind.
I’d told Cobra I loved him after he told me I was his possession and he owned me.
Oh my god, I’m their bitch.
I proceeded to learn a very important lesson: it’s impossible to strangle yourself with toilet paper.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“I ranked fortieth out of a class of fifty people. Although, technically, the last ten didn’t live till graduation.”
Aran laughed, then covered her mouth when she realized I hadn’t joined her. “Oh my sun god, you aren’t joking.”
I shrugged, unbothered. “My talents lie elsewhere.”
Also, I was 99.9 percent sure I had some type of attention disorder, because I’d never been able to sit still long.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“The worst part wasn’t the during; it was the after. Adrenaline got you through the moment, and when it left, nothing tempered the agony.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“I groaned. This was what happened when men refused to deal with their emotions. I knew I should have purchased those “healing your mind and body through writing” journals back in the fae realm.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Jax raked his hands tiredly through his braids. “Jinx, we talked about this. You can’t bully your classmates.”
“Don’t be so dramatic. I was simply educating him on his shortcomings,”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“I’d also faced the wall because I’d spotted Warren twirling Jess across the dance floor, and it had filled me with an un-sun-godly level of rage.
Everything about the boy pissed me off: (1) he was a ferret, (2) he had manipulated the girls, (3) he ate underwear, (4) he had sparkly skin that I was definitely not jealous of, and (5) once again, the underwear.
It was obvious he sucked.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Did you really try to die?” Jinx asked curiously.
“Yeah, but the damn voice in my head wouldn’t let me,” I said honestly.
There was another crack as I assumed Ascher punched the wall, and the bed shook with the vibrations from Cobra’s hiss.
Jinx didn’t sound impressed. “Then why aren’t you dead?”
“Jinx!” Jess and Jala said at once.
“It’s rude to ask someone why they aren’t dead. We’ve talked about pretending to be normal,” Jess scolded her younger sister.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“The therapist narrowed her eyes at us.
She thought we were secretly in a relationship and couldn’t understand our dynamic (she didn’t know Aran was secretly a girl; that was confidential information above her clearance).”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“The world was a dark, cruel place; it either fucked you over, or you rose from the ashes and fucked it.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“However, since I was still in a state of extreme duress, I decided not to be impressed by a man doing the bare minimum.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“No hate to the pigeon community, just didn’t know if that lifestyle was for me.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“I needed a hot bath and a mountain of warm bread with butter.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“For the sake of feminists everywhere, I ignored the way my core fluttered when he said they owned me. I’d worry about it later.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Sweat, Suffer, Survive”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“They looked like a perfect match: the small princess and her dark prince.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“Aran rolled her eyes. “Everyone is so sensitive these days. I only choked him a little. You just can’t do anything anymore. It’s ridiculous.”
― jasmine mas, Psycho Beasts

“The crux of the problem was another man had pinned me against the wall and told me he owned me.
Sure, a large part of me thought it was hot.
But as Aran had eloquently said, “You know what is hotter? Respect.
T-shirt slogan material.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“If the patriarchy could just not for literally one day, I would appreciate it.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts

“I had a long, torrid love affair with toxic masculinity and alpha douche canoes. What could I say? The small-dick men smelled my potent female stench and got all hot and bothered. “Hot” as in overheated by rage; “bothered” as in embarrassingly worried about how to detach my head from my body.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Beasts