quotations about monsters
When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you love it.
Oh, when you used to sing it to sleep.
CAITLYN SIEHL
"Start Here"
"Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters."
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Monsters are afraid of water. Fill a spray bottle with water and lightly mist problem areas, including under the bed, around the door, and in the closet. Place sentries outside of closets and by windows. Monsters will avoid friendly-looking stuffed animals, dolls, clowns, and puppets. Assemble a battalion of these around all likely points of entry.
DAVID BORGENICHT
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Monsters are typically thought of as existing outside social norms and codes of conduct. They are maladapted freaks who have been rejected and spurned by the public. Either deified or vilified, monsters are constantly made separate from the rules and lives of a civilized society. Still, as has been repeatedly argued, they serve a necessary function, and because of this they may be removed from day-to-day life, but they are always present.
AMBER L. DAVISSON
Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture
Death is when the monsters get you.
STEPHEN KING
Salem's Lot
She was a monster, but she was my monster.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
There's this idea that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. And what I've always thought isn't that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. It's that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn't see myself reflected at all. I was like, "Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don't exist?" And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.
JUNOT DIAZ
attributed, Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON
An Unquiet Mind
There are no heroes ... in life, the monsters win.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.
SARAH J. MAAS
Queen of Shadows
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, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.
RANSOM RIGGS
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
PRIMO LEVI
The Reawakening
Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways.... There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.
JIM BUTCHER
Ghost Story
A monster, which hath not the shape of mankind, but in any part evidently bears the resemblance of the brute creation, hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any blood, albeit it be brought forth in marriage.
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
attributed, Bright Words for Dark Days
You are monsters! That is the role you seem determined to play! So, it seems that I must play mine: the man that stops the monsters.
JAMIE MATHIESON
"Flatline", Doctor Who, October 18, 2014
Monsters are tamed so that they can be bought and sold.
AMBER L. DAVISSON
Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture
There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead.
VICTORIA SCHWAB
Our Dark Duet
A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
KRISTIN CASHORE
Graceling
Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden