Monsters Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon." "They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian." "No, they eat meat. It just doesn't sway their decision making process." "Well that... that's just wrong, Atticus!Are they Monsters? It's like they have no moral center!

  Kevin Hearne

  Mean, Decision, Meat

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1419, Del Rey

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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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• That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Grandmother, Sarcasm

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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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• This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

  Pete Wentz

  Hands, Wish, Stories

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• Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Sky, Once Upon A Time

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• He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Magazines

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.35, Harper Collins

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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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• I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Too Late, Way, Becoming

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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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• It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Knowing, Feelings, Titles

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.427, Hachette UK

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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's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.

  Dan Wells

  Mother, Cutting, Feel Better

  Dan Wells (2010). “Mr. Monster”, p.2, Macmillan

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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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• I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.

  Tamora Pierce

  Thinking, Dragons, Sunrise

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Realms of the Gods”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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