104 quotes found
“We are all monsters.”
“The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.”
“The strange thing arched its serpentine body to bring its head closer to the bear, all of its many eyes staring straight at him with alien curiosity. The thing looked at the bear. The bear looked a...”
“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monst...”
“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”
“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”
“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, ...”
“What was the purpose of a woman monster?It came out in a whisper. ‘What am I for?”
“There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.”
“Some monsters disguise themselves so well you don’t realize that they’re monsters until it’s too late. You check all of the usual places: under the bed, in the closet, behind the shower curtain, ar...”
“...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...”
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
“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”
“...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.”
“One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.”
“Are you a monster if you kill monsters, especially if those monsters are inside your head?”
“But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.”
“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...”
“I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be.”
“If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one.”
