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Quotes About Monsters

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.
~ Brad Meltzer
The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.
~ Bram Stoker
I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion
~ Sy Montgomery
Who do you think monsters marry, you stupid bitch?" I walked back to her. "Pretty little breakable girls? Or other monsters?" I pushed up into her face. "You got the fairy tale right. But Gideon's the beauty. I'm the beast.
~ Sylvia Day
Who do you think monsters marry, you stupid bitch?" I walked back to her. "Pretty little breakable girls? Or other monsters?
~ Sylvia Day
I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it's just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.
~ Tamora Pierce
What do all my taxes pay for if monsters with daggers for teeth can land atop my castle and charm my little ones into giving away my shirts? Not to mention leave a stink behind them that took three rounds of scrubbing to get out of the stones!
~ Tamora Pierce
He suffered no regret, no horror, and yet he suffered something, some incoherent abstract crawling of the flesh and shuddering of the intellect. As if the woman had begun to devour him alive. Or as if he himself, discovering in himself some hidden vault, had opened the door and, let forth monsters.
~ Tanith Lee
Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.
~ Tennessee Williams
Mira, sólo hay un medio para matar los monstruos; aceptarlos.
~ Julio Cortazar
Michael es culpable de literatura, de fabricaciones irreales. Nada le gusta más que imaginar excepciones, individuos fuera de la especie, monstruos no siempre repugnantes.
~ Julio Cortazar
Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.
~ Kanan Makiya
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
~ Francisco de Goya
The sleep of reason produces monsters
~ Francisco de Goya
The slumber of reason breeds monsters.
~ Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
~ Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)
~ Francisco Goya
El sueno de la razon produce monstuos
~ Francisco Goya
El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)
~ Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
~ Francisco Goya
Ready to start summer school?" he asked. "If it means we get to see cool monsters, absolutely," Seth replied.
~ Brandon Mull
Spensa," M-Bot said, hovering along beside me, "I am not enthused by my first experiments in self-determination. My chronometer details that since my awakening, I've spent a frightening amount of my time lost, pouting, or being chased by interdimensional monsters.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Do you enjoy stories, young lady?" "What kind of stories?" "The best kind, of course," Slowswift said, tapping his book. "The kind about monsters and myths. Longtales, some call them—stories told by skaa around the fires, whispering of mistwraiths, sprites, and brollins and such.
~ Brandon Sanderson
She and David had a running joke about how they both feared their kids at night the same way that, as children, they'd feared monsters under the bed. Beasts that would rise up from the side of your bed, seize you with sharp nails and demand things of you.
~ Helen Phillips