645 Quotes About Monsters

Fairy tales, you’ll say. But you know what? People need a good fairy tale every now and then. People invented fairy tales and filled them with monsters so they wouldn’t become monsters themselves. Because the truth can turn you into a monster. You have to become a monster if you want to withstand the truth.

Monsters preferred solitude.

If a point of view becomes one’s entire identity, what was monstrous on the inside can become monstrous on the outside.

In a weird, twisted way, Nita almost felt like Kovit’s and her stories were opposite facets on the same diamond. Different, sure, but similar in some fundamental ways. It made Nita feel . . . weird. Squiggly, not-quite empathy, but sort of fear-empathy . . . something. Nita couldn’t put it into words.

I won't lie and say my kind are never monstrous. Just that we're only as monstrous as your kind are.

Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere

I am,’ he whispers, 'the monster I warned you against.’'You are,’ I say hoarsely, 'the monster I claim.

Most people feared the darkness. Some people feared, more wisely, the things within the darkness. Gabriel feared both, and with good reason. He walked anyway. That had always been his way. He had a complicated history with the woodlands of the world. He'd met his share of the Cyclops and the Circes that lurked within.And the world never seemed to run out of monsters.

Sometimes, monsters needed to die.