Monsters Quotes

He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that dwelt there. Of course, he didn’t believe in them. He’d told them, because the handing on of an oral mythology was very important to a developing culture, but he didn’t believe in supernatural monsters. He shivered. He hoped they didn’t believe in him.

~ Terry Pratchett

The architecture of the Minotaur’s heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumps—the blood it has pumped for five thousand years, the blood it will pump for the rest of his life—is nearly human blood. It carries with it, through his monster’s veins, the weighty, necessary, terrible stuff of human existence: fear, wonder, hope, wickedness, love. But in the Minotaur’s world it is far easier to kill and devour seven virgins year after year, their rattling bones rising at his feet like a sea of cracked ice, than to accept tenderness and return it.

~ Steven Sherrill

She'd fall back asleep dreaming of hurricanes whipping the palm trees around her childhood home, trying to run from the Godzilla-sized beast that rushed to devour her. But her feet were stuck in invisible cement. As she struggled to scream, she'd startle awake and feel the staccato beats of her heart thumping double-time.Only then would she remember: she brought him into this world.- The Monster In Her Bedroom, Havok Magazine, Issue 1.1

~ Katherine Valdez

So when she looked in the mirror one day, and saw the beginning of thorny protrusions on her legs, a slight greenish tinge to her skin, she sighed.It was inevitable. - The Monster In Her Bedroom, Havok Magazine, Issue 1.1

~ Katherine Valdez

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

~ George R.r. Martin

Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.

~ David Burr Gerrard

We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.

~ Kameron Hurley

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

~ Jacques Derrida

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

~ Kelly Link

Will looked horrified. What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

~ Cassandra Clare

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

~ Stephen King

But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.

~ Sarah J. Maas

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.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

~ Holly Black

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 flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

~ David Sedaris

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters. —Alice Healy

~ Seanan Mcguire

Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.

~ Cindy Gerard

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.

~ Alexandra Bracken

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

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

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.

~ Holly Black

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.

~ Terry Pratchett

The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

~ Cassandra Clare

The monsters are gone.Really? Doubtful.I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do.

~ Fiona Wallace

All monsters must die except the beautiful ones

~ Cameron Jace

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

~ Jonathan Maberry

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

~ Rick Yancey

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

~ Alastair Reynolds

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

~ Stanisław Lem

Unhappiness slowly creeps up on you, like a shape-shifting monster waiting in the darkness of your hallway, his bulging eyes watching your every move. The breath on his slimy tongue makes the hairs on your neck stand up.

~ Kate Rockland

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.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna do it by being bigger monsters than they are! You understand? There ain't no philosophy, there ain't no grace, there ain't no mercy, there's only us and them, and all they wanna do is eat our ass! So we're gonna fucking eat them! We're gonna chew 'em up and spit 'em out, and we're gonna survive this thing or I will blow a hole through this whole fucked up world! You follow me? You FOLLOW ME!

~ Robert Kirkman

Leaves that rustled, twigs that scraped and rattled. But the thin shapes weren't falling, they were scurrying head first down the tree-trunks at a speed that seemed to leave time behind. Some of them had no shape they could have lived with, and some might never have had any skin. She saw their shriveled eyes glimmer eagerly and their toothless mouths gape with an identical infantile hunger. Their combined weight bowed the lowest branches while they extended arms like withered sticks to snatch the child. (With The Angels)

~ Ramsey Campbell

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

Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.

~ Francesca Zappia

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

~ Oscar Wilde

I'll investigate, but I've still got to be cautious, because a monster in one's lap isn't always a good thing.

~ Jonathan Maas

Let’s pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping me safe from you; they’re keeping you safe from me.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton