Pretty Monsters Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.

Torii Hunter

#3. Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

George R R Martin

#4. 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

#5. At a normal high school, having class outside on a gorgeous May day is usually pretty awesome. It means sitting in the sunshine, maybe reading some poetry, letting the breeze blow through your hair ... At Hecate Hall, a.k.a. Juvie for Monsters, it meant I was getting thrown in the pond.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. 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

#7. Passing away is written on the world and all the world contains.

Felicia Hemans

#8. Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

Daniel H. Wilson

#9. At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

Constantin Stanislavski

#10. Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

Solon

#11. When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?

Ted Dekker

#12. With her long dark hair and green eyes, she was pretty as a doll. You know, the kind of doll that came to life at night to kill monsters.

Alyxandra Harvey

#13. Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

Joseph Hall

#14. I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters.

Stephen King

#15. Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

Nick Hornby

#16. When you write a song, a song has longevity.

Smokey Robinson

#17. Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

George Friedman

#18. I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

David Hurn

#19. Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?

Mohsin Hamid

#20. Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

#21. I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have to face that thing. On the other hand, if the dragon decided to go berserk again and attack the campers-that would pretty much stink.

Rick Riordan

#22. If you are clever and you are good, the monster will not have you.
You should not believe everything you hear.
Good men fall to monsters everyday. Clever men are tricked by their own pride or by pretty words.

E.K. Johnston

#23. Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

Rick Riordan

#24. What she wants most - what she truly yearns for - is what any of us want: to be seen.

Christina Baker Kline