--- title: "1 Monster Father Quotes By Cora Reilly" description: "1 Monster Father quotes by Cora Reilly. Plus more from Cora Reilly and more Monster Father sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/cora-reilly-58044_favourite-books_i-was-the-boy-who-killed-his-first-man-a_1128567.jpg" --- > [“I was the boy who killed his first man at eleven. I was the teenager who crushed his cousin’s throat at seventeen. I was the man who bathed in his enemies’ blood without a flicker of remorse, who relished in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cora-reilly/i-was-the-boy-who-killed-his-first-man-at-eleven-i-was-the-teenager/) [Cora Reilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cora-reilly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/cora-reilly-58044_favourite-books_i-was-the-boy-who-killed-his-first-man-a_1128567.jpg) ## More by Cora Reilly > [“The skin is harder there because of the thick scar tissue. It’s less sensitive to pain and cold and heat. 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Growl”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cora-reilly/you-are-worth-more-than-anything-i-ve-ever-owned-or-will-ever-own/) [Cora Reilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cora-reilly/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/monster-father/cora-reilly/#itemlist", "name": "1 Monster Father Quotes By Cora Reilly", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I was the boy who killed his first man at eleven. I was the teenager who crushed his cousin’s throat at seventeen. I was the man who bathed in his enemies’ blood without a flicker of remorse, who relished in their screams as if it was a fucking Mozart sonata. Monsters are created, not born. Bullshit. I was born a monster. Cruelty ran in my veins like poison. It ran in the veins of every Vitiello man, passed on from father to son, an endless spiral of monstrosity. 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