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“Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as if she was some kind of monster.Maybe she was.”
“Monsters can help us by giving a tangible form to our secret fears. It is less widely appreciated today that wonders such as the unicorn legitimize our hopes. But all imaginary animals, to some deg...”
“But then, maybe I dont believe in you is the cruelest way to kill a monster.”
“Human beings are no damn good, he said. We are even worse than animals. We like ...He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.We like monsters, he said.”
“Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in...”
“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
“She hated seeing monsters smile. Monsters should growl and snarl and be done with the pretenses.”
“The power of monsters is their ability to fuse opposites, to merge contraries, to subvert rules, to overthrow cognitive barriers, moral distinction, and ontological categories. Monsters overcome th...”
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
“Only monsters could slay monsters.”
“Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.”
“Im not sure were quite the monsters you want us to be.”
“Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flow...”
“But such monsters as sphinxes bring forth the necessary heroes to defeat them, and because such heroes make civilization by the example of monster-taming, without the former there would be no civil...”
“The real monsters are born, not made. They are the ones who watch behind friendly faces. The ones who come for the innocent trying to steal everything they have, be it their most treasured possessi...”
“As humanity becomes monstrous, monsters become nicer.”
“Are you sure this isn't a nightmare? And that we won't just wake up?Yes.Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.”
“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita”
“The world is chock-full of monsters.”
“There are many monsters, oh, many!”
