Monsters Quotes - Page 14

• Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

  Patricia Briggs

  Evil, World, Known

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.752, Penguin

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• A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, Angel

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• Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.

  P. C. Cast

  Loneliness, Eye, Dark

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• What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

  David Wong

  Believe, Eye, Tears

  David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Two, Devil, Different

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• There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Eye, Men

  "A Feast for Crows". Book by George R. R. Martin, 2005.

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• When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Risk, Traffic

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

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• Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Half, Bob

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• I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sorry, Sea, Justice

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.965, Bantam

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• The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

  Mathias Malzieu

  People, Torment, Wretched

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• Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion, overdosed on worthlessness in a world that could never wrap it’s head around him (so don’t even try). When it’s all over just remember every single word you ever said was always just a bullet to his head. Bury him underground between friends and love - the only things that are gonna make it to the end with him. Look for his body buried beneath where the yellow weeds are growing and know he’s still living in his nightmares.

  Pete Wentz

  Weed, Boys, Men

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• I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Dangerous, Knows

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.468, Hachette UK

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• I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Moving, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

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• It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

  Jim Butcher

  Voice, Want, Matter

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, "Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity?" He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, "There's some dessert! With a chair-y on top!

  David Wong

  Impact, Doors, Blood

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• Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Fighting, Dust

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Trying, Desperation

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• The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.

  Richard Siken

  Alive, Body, Way

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• Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Boys, Bed, Deals

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Liars, Moving

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Persons

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Years, Encounters

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin

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• What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Fear, Silly, Men

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• I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

  Anna Biller

  Husband, Plot, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Heart, Agony

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