A Monster Calls Quotes

#1. I wish I had 100 years. 100 years I could give to you" - A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

#2. You Englishman, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid, that you quit your fortresses and return into your own country, or if not, I shall make such mayhem that the memory of it will be perpetual. - Joan of Arc

Susan Banfield

#3. I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

George W. Bush

#4. When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

Jackie Speier

#5. The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

Alyson Noel

#6. I figure if someone calls something a 'Draugr,' people can figure out that it's a monster or some sort of mythic creature, and if they want to know more, there's plenty of information out there about those mythic creatures.

Cullen Bunn

#7. What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

Timothy Noah

#8. I need to cool off, I tell him, trying to moderate my voice. I'll be back to shave your head while you're sleeping.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. He calls himself the Marquis de Carabas," he said. "He's a fraud and a cheat and possibly even something of a monster. If you're ever in trouble, go to him. He will protect you, girl. He has to.

Neil Gaiman

#10. He's been so changeable with her I'm surprised he's not been accepted to Hogwarts for his transfiguration skills.

Holly Bourne

#11. The boy who chose to play the villain in order to battle a monster who calls himself a hero

Lisa Maxwell

#12. Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.

Farshad Asl

#13. But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

Patrick Ness

#14. Belief is half of healing.

Patrick Ness

#15. I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant".

Colleen Hoover

#16. I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo.

The Cookie Monster.

Whatever, Rashid

Rion Amilcar Scott

#17. All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.

Isabel Allende

#18. That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.

Skyla Madi

#19. In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

Margaret Cho

#20. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Patrick Ness

#21. When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

Philip Ridley