Monsters Quotes - Page 19

• It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Cutting, Asceticism, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.140, Lettere Animate Editore

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• Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.

  Rick Riordan

  Feet, Long, Twenties

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.60, Penguin UK

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• Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.” More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Grandmother, Frying Pans

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• Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Looks, Way

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.327, Scholastic Inc.

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• I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Fighting, Winning

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.

  Joss Whedon

  Fans, Drs, Green

  "The Avengers". www.imdb.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that doesn't actually exist?" "Of course," he replied. "The unicorn and the leprechaun would be would be the two main ones. The Loch Ness Monster isn't real, either, that's just someone called Bert.

  Derek Landy

  Real, Two, Vampire

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.140, HarperCollins UK

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• Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

  David Wong

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Walking Away

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.445, Macmillan

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• Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Liars, Believe

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.519, Hachette UK

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• Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Light, Imagination, Way

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Ego, Handsome, Busted

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1162, Simon and Schuster

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• My stomach churned. The monster had mimicked Thalia perfectly. If I'd heard that voice in the dark, calling for help, I would've run straight toward it.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dark, Voice

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• Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

  Kristin Cashore

  People, Inspire, Devotion

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• It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fur, Lines, Sometimes

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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• Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

  Glen Duncan

  Heart, Ego, Judgement

  "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.

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• That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

  Ted Hughes

  Children, People, Walking Dead

  Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Country, Brother

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• In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Gods And Monsters

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• Adults are the real monsters.

  Stephen King

  Real, Adults

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• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Heart, Breathing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dream, Writing, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.402, Feiwel & Friends

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• She was a monster, but she was my monster.

  Jeanette Winterson

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, www.abc.net.au. 2011.

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• 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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