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bf9982a "Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?" monsters Cassandra Clare
2c42c91 If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. monsters Chuck Palahniuk
5e197f4 Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them. murderers monsters Alice Sebold
810231b But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then. manon-blackbeak queen-of-shadows monsters Sarah J. Maas
848269a O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. jealousy mockery vices monsters William Shakespeare
63fa4ee Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn. night-court freyre high-fae high-lord rhysand rhys fae monsters Sarah J. Maas
8b71476 "Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "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." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster." monsters harry-dresden Jim Butcher
147f0fb Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. warnings human-nature monsters Sue Grafton
de12e65 Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil. love monsters vampires Christopher Pike
90efd10 We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. frankenstein monsters Mike Carey & Peter Gross
ca0ca7c She was a monster, but she was my monster. mothers monsters Jeanette Winterson
ead76c8 It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things. names supernatural monsters Ray Bradbury
a682e10 But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. monsters Kay Redfield Jamison
768e1bc The only monsters I have ever known were men. monsters Jodi Picoult
6f5e1ba "I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?" humanity monsters Terry Pratchett
7b6b9f1 Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out. monsters Holly Black
61acc43 I'd gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym. monsters harry-dresden Jim Butcher
23c98b9 CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA! monsters Jeff Smith
c0656f6 *For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you? *She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes. *Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone. *I hate to admit it, but she has a point. phones monsters Richard Kadrey
0cb90e8 "You'd better tell me what you know, toad," said Tiffany. "Miss Tick isn't here. I am." "Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "There. Happy now? That's what Miss Tick thinks. But it's happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back." "Why?" "There's no one to stop them." There was silence for a moment. "There's me," said Tiffany." inspirational monsters Terry Pratchett
6c5c989 "Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.- -"And?" And it makes you vulnerable." pain sensitive vulnerable monsters Jim Butcher
9878ddf "Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.' I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?' Lettie threw a pebble into the pond. 'I don't think so,' she said. 'Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.' I said, 'People should be scared of Ursula Monkton.' 'P'raps. What do you think Ursula Monkton is scared of?' 'Dunno. Why do you think she's scared of anything? She's a grown-up, isn't she? Grown-ups and monsters aren't scared of things.' Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters. And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world." fear fantasy truth adults age inside outside children childhood monsters scared Neil Gaiman
870d9f1 He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human. ralph savages survival human-nature monsters William Golding
bedc069 I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. inspirational-attitude monsters Chuck Palahniuk
e30ec40 Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies. death flies whisper soft kings speak dangerous die monsters George R.R. Martin
44af3ef I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid. imagination inspirational monsters J.K. Rowling
68f6a75 "That's arrogance, Harry. " he said, gently. "On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there?" "No?" I asked. He smiled again. "Because you have set a higher standard for yourself. You think that, because you have more power than others, you have to do more with it." "To whom much is given, much is required," I said, without looking up. He barked out a short laugh. "For someone who repeatedly tells me he has no faith, you have a surprising capacity to quote scripture. And that's just my point." I eyed him. "What?" "You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care." "So?" "Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring." redemption damned monsters Jim Butcher
0cf2992 "You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison." What monsters may they be?" Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!... There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?" universe science cosmic size horror monsters Thomas Hardy
e0fe033 I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. doubts monsters Gregory Maguire
156a698 We may see a Creature with forty-nine heads Who lives in the desolate snow, And whenever he catches a cold (which he dreads) He has forty-nine noses to blow. 'We may see the venomous Pink-Spotted Scrunch Who can chew up a man with one bite. It likes to eat five of them roasted for lunch And eighteen for its supper at night. 'We may see a Dragon, and nobody knows That we won't see a Unicorn there. We may see a terrible Monster with toes Growing out of the tufts of his hair. 'We may see the sweet little Biddy-Bright Hen So playful, so kind and well-bred; And such beautiful eggs! You just boil them and then They explode and they blow off your head. 'A Gnu and a Gnocerous surely you'll see And that gnormous and gnorrible Gnat Whose sting when it stings you goes in at the knee And comes out through the top of your hat. 'We may even get lost and be frozen by frost. We may die in an earthquake or tremor. Or nastier still, we may even be tossed On the horns of a furious Dilemma. 'But who cares! Let us go from this horrible hill! Let us roll! Let us bowl! Let us plunge! Let's go rolling and bowling and spinning until We're away from old Spiker and Sponge! imagination james-and-the-giant-peach roald-dahl monsters Roald dahl
15f72f2 "TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... sleep reason religion monsters Georges Bataille
447d1c5 When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. writing-life life-quotes life-lessons fear-quote fearless-quotes writing-philosophy writing-advice life-philosophy fears monster monsters Anne Lamott
e41d1f7 It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters. truth horror monsters Jim Butcher
cdeb219 When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky. responsibilities monsters David Eagleman
dee81c8 Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you. bravery fear motivational problems christian monsters Elizabeth Newton
94b78de There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over. monsters Karen Russell
fde9602 We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it. leaders monsters Iain M. Banks
4899d1d He stands alone in hollow gloom, with the sound of his own breath whispering down unseen passages ahead and behind and to both sides, wondering how he stumbled into this blackest of all labyrinths. He entered by choice. We all do. Whether we are mapping the heavens or skulking the lanes of the underworld, whether we are hunting the imprisoned fiend or have ourselves become the monster, whether we are searching for what is lost or hiding what must never be found, we all round that first corner by choice - and by then, we are lost. You too. You must decide what is false and what is true, and what is true for me but not for you. We are wandering the mazes, all of us, and we cannot hope to escape until we learn to tell between what is real and what is real for someone else. There lies the madness, and the truth as well. madness theseus monsters psychology Troy Denning
8e80e94 Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. hunger monsters Hilary Mantel
02ba206 Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him Joyfully monsters Anne Carson
f59c38d It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba's throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - [...] theseus greek-mythology labyrinth monsters psychology Troy Denning
ec8250b "This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it's all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It's the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes we found ourselves in. Yet there are so many others who are not alive today, and I feel obligated in not allowing the lessons of their mistakes to lie in the grave with them. It was the United States Senator, Al Franken, who stated, "Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from." I'm revealing all of those mistakes and more, sadly a lot of them are fatal. In an attempt to have these real life lessons obtained in blood, prevent the blood-shedding of so many others. These stories are ones that young people can understand and identify with. While at the same time empowering them, to make better decisions about their choice of friends, the proper use of their time and how one wrong move can be fatal. I guess the major question that we all have to ask ourselves at the end of the day would be: how could I and so many others have been prevented from becoming monsters? You be the judge. I now extend my hand to you, and personally invite you to take a journey with me into the heartlands of innocence to menacing, from a youngster to a monster, and the making of a predator. I will safely walk you down the deserted and darkened street corners which were once my world of crime, gang violence and senseless murders. It's a different world unto itself, one which could only be observed up close by invitation only. Together we will learn the motivation behind hard-core gangsters, and explore the minds of cold-blooded murderers. You will discover the way they think about their own lives, and why they are so remorseless about the taking of another's life. So, if you will, please journey with me as we discover together how the fight of our lives were wrapped up in our fathers." darkness life-lessons anti-social-behaviors bloodshed cold-blooded deserted die-hard-gangsters generation-x inner-city menacing remorseless senseless-murders under-ground-world rebelling social-ills harden-criminals at-risk-youth crime-prevention social-science fatherhood friendships mistakes choices monsters Drexel Deal
0f345f2 First, you'd discover that the monster was not real. You'd realize that it was just an illusion that you never had anything to fear in the first place. You'd see that the monster had no teeth. This would be an incredible triumph. discovery fear panic-attacks panic monsters David D. Burns
ddd2748 When you confront the monster you fear the most, you'll defeat your fears. fear fears monster monsters David D. Burns
287efd5 If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.' 'If there really are such creatures in here,' Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short. discovery the-haunted-cave sally-wilcox christopher-pike spooksville creatures monsters Christopher Pike
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