Quotes from First Kill

Compassion is not a weakness. It is a gift to be embraced.

For years, every time I'd close my eyes, I'd see monsters. Ones with claws as long as steak knives, teeth as sharp as glass. That was before I learned the worst ones always look human.

I think a lot about how the world treats teenage girls. Like, everything that's good about us is a weakness. Our hearts, our emotions, our empathy, means we need to be protected.

Every day that you refuse to embrace your nature, you are closer to the day where it controls you. The day that you kill recklessly because you simply must feed.

When you're swimming around in my head like this, everything else disappears. Somehow, an hour goes by in five minutes.

Apollo: "Mom, can I please tell him to go to hell?"
Talia: "Sure, if you got somewhere else to live."

I realize that the girls got off on the wrong foot, but that's nothin a glass of Chardonnay can't fix.

One day, I'm going to be the greatest hunter who ever lived. And these clowns will simply be known as my brothers.

Who are you, Calliope Burns? Why do you show up now? I can't shake the fear that as soon as I blink, you'll disappear.

Juliette: "I like 'Calliope'. It's strange. I mean - it's beautiful. Classic? Classical?"
Calliope: "You should meet my brothers Theseus and Apollo."

We faced everyone, monster and human, who tried to come between us.

Even on good days, I still feel like I don't fit in. Like everyone else has it all figured out. The clothes they wear. The bands they like. Who they are. Who they wanna be. And I'm the only one who's stuck pretending.

Sometimes when I first wake up, my heart is racing and my throat is dry. Can't figure out if the pills are making the dreams more real or the reason they're not worse.

Margot: "Elinor, have you been out all night?"
Elinor: "If I'm home now, does it really matter?"

Theo: "When hunting monsters, there are three rules."
Calliope: "Pay attention to everything!"
Apollo: "Be prepared for anything."
Theo: "And always finish what you start."

I'm from a lineage thousands of years old of the best monster hunters to ever walk the earth.

He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.