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The Hunger QUOTES

The Hunger QUOTES

1 " I don’t believe in monsters,” Stanton said. “Only men who behave like them. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

2 " She was continually shocked by the fact that the others seemed to forget the obvious: that the mountains, like most beautiful things in this world, were deadly. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

3 " Reed once thought that love was akin to passion, but he saw now that it was something different entirely; that it was, perhaps, a kind of faith. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

4 " But like many truths, no one wanted to hear it. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

5 " Women were always forced to smile. Tamsen had mastered it so well it sometimes frightened her. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

6 " Hope, Tamsen realized, could be a very dangerous thing, especially when dealt to desperate hands. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

7 " The world was fragile. One day, growth; the next day, kindling. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

8 " Maybe it takes one demon to keep the others away.” He paused. His eyes glistened with tears now. “Lucifer had been an angel first. I always remembered that. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

9 " Evil was invisible, and it was everywhere. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

10 " She knew that one extraordinary thing was bound to make the ordinariness of her life all the more painful. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

11 " Then the Lord must be mightily displeased with you, because he has led you into the valley of death. Make peace with your Lord before it is too late, because the hungry ones are coming for you. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

12 " The aloneness ate a hole through him. Sometimes he worried that the loneliness had taken everything, that there was nothing left of him at all on the inside. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

13 " Elitha couldn’t pretend. She burned with shame. And still the voices crowded her head, whispering terrible things and leaving a deep tunnel of loneliness, as if their words were sharp and physical things hollowing out her center. She was desperate for quiet, for peace, for silence. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

14 " He made her think of a storm in summer, and though others might say it was a fool-headed thing to do, she wanted to run out into that storm, to feel its raindrops that, she somehow sensed, would fall gently against her skin. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

15 " December 1831 Through the window of his grandfather’s Victorian— "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

16 " And love was like forgiveness—deep and patient. It would be waiting for her on the other side. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

17 " Snow had told him that in fact humanity’s entire understanding of disease, our connection of the disease to its symptoms, might be erroneous. Namely, that a disease and its symptoms were not necessarily the same thing. That the disease is something alive but invisible—almost like a spirit, in fact—that then takes hold in the body and causes symptoms, sometimes different symptoms in different people. Sometimes, even, causing no symptoms at all. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

18 " A young boy might be swallowed up in all this vastness, in the unrelenting space that stretched in all directions, in the horizons that yoked even the sun down to heel. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

19 " Snow kept secrets. You’d think you were on solid ground, but it was just a matter of time before the ledge beneath you crumbled. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger

20 " but by the time they caught up to her, the teenage girl had already killed the baby and was devouring her liver. "

― Alma Katsu , The Hunger