Monsters Quotes - Page 11

• Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More like total commitment. More like I have walked down the aisle, holding hands with the monster.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Commitment, Hands

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Glass”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

  Ellen Hopkins

  Littles, Crank, Mets

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Bingo pup. It's a lesson best learned early. They're all afraid of us." He strolled over to Derek. "You're trying to be a good kid, aren't you? You think that'll show them they're wrong. So how'd that working out for you? Guess what? They don't care. To them, you're a monster, and nothing you do--or don't do--will change their minds. My advice? Give 'em what they want. It's a short, brutal life." He smiled. "Live it up." Derek stared straight ahead, patiently waiting. "He can't hear a word I'm saying, can he?" Liam said. "Nope.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Thinking, Giving

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.186, Penguin Group

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• Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

  Rick Yancey

  Shapes, Flesh, Size

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

  Ellen Hopkins

  Running

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• I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.

  Patricia Briggs

  Anime, People, Coyotes

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• It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, Violence, Strange

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I guarantee you I'm not going to forget your voice. We're going to run into each other down the road sometime, and when we do I'm going to pop you apart one rivet at a time." "There's the monster. Hello, monster.

  Richard Kadrey

  Running, Voice, Guarantees

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• Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

  Henry Rollins

  Sorry, Pain, Loneliness

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• I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

  Taylor Swift

  Kids, Writing, Men

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• In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Water, Survivor, Analysis

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• The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

  Anais Nin

  Transformation, Creation, Destruction

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• We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Perseverance, Teacher, Fear

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.143, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.

  Dan Wells

  Wall, Real, Distance

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

  Rachel Cohn

  Glasses, Should Have, House

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• glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.

  Rick Riordan

  Baseball, Mean, Men

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• Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Sleep, Imagination, Golden

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• Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Kings, Fighting, Winning

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• I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose of establishing order—value C—and maintaining a steady supply of maidens—value D. If one inserts the derivative of value A (Prince) into the equation y equals BC plus CD squared, and sets it equal to zero, giving the apex of the parabola, namely, the point of intersection between A (Prince) and B (Monster), one determines value E—a stable kingdom. It is all very complicated, and if you have a chart handy I can graph it for you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Zero, Order, Cds

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• Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Angel, Once Upon A Time

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

  Mira Grant

  People, Problem

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• I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Nice, Pride, Clothes

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.79, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

  Isaac Marion

  Ugly, Privacy, Exhausted

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

  Melina Marchetta

  Teacher, Animal, Voice

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