Top 100 The Monster Quotes
#1. The vampire who lived here was either a total loser or really liked the monster image. Really, if he couldn't be a rich vampire, then he was a moron.
Caroline Hanson
#2. Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
Cornelia Funke
#3. Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. But sometimes the monster in the closet was really just a worthless clown in a coma.
Anne Frasier
#5. A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#6. It was a sort of infinite monster, tossing its million heads and frothing at its million mouths as it hungered to devour the city," he wrote. "I stood there and heard the monster's growl - his cry for blood - and looked into the black terror of his murderous frown.
Leigh Jones
#7. When the monster struck a blow, Conor felt the sting of it in his own fist. When the monster held Harry's arm behind his back, Conor had felt Harry's muscles resisting.
Resisting, but not winning.
Because how could a boy beat a monster?
Patrick Ness
#8. In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, this strange quirk of mine. I want my little captive to love me, to care about me. I want to be more than just the monster of her nightmares.
Anna Zaires
#9. I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.
Nic Pizzolatto
#10. Don't show the monster too much at the beginning." - Roger Corman, 1997
Beverly Gray
#11. The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
Patricia Riggen
#12. Practically raised by wolves, we had joked. The monster and the metaphor, and the way they match up that makes the double-edged word of wit. And then you realize what your words have done, and you weep because you're both bleeding.
Kat Howard
#13. I was both the monster and the sad girl. I couldn't separate the two.
Jennifer Brown
#14. Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More like total commitment. More like I have walked down the aisle, holding hands with the monster.
Ellen Hopkins
#15. Yet instead of drowning in the darkness that had threatened to suck her under, Brenna had said "fuck you" to the monster who'd hurt her, and she'd chosen to live. She'd not only wrenched back control of her own life, she'd taken on an Arrow and claimed him as her mate.
Nalini Singh
#16. But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.
Emily Carroll
#17. There is a difference between killing while in the throes of Hunger or Blood Frenzy, and giving in to the monster. Once you fall, once you willingly cross that line, it changes you. Forever.
Julie Kagawa
#19. Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Winston S. Churchill
#20. There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many, too fast, when he began begging the monster to stop.
Patrick Ness
#21. The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
Voltaire
#22. He chuckles. It's dark and humorless. "You'll learn, Bunny. I'm a liar. A bad fucking man. The monster you feared as a child. You're my new toy now - to do with whatever the fuck I please.
K. Webster
#23. Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
Steven Moffat
#24. You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.
Suzanne Weyn
#25. Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.
Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.
Kristin Cashore
#27. He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast.
Terry Goodkind
#28. He reminded me of pain and darkness and a double-gauzed finger. I must have reminded him of botched-up vengeance and the monster within,
Leylah Attar
#29. Well, set the monster free ... he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy ... but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.
Eric Stoltz
#31. To be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.
Betty Rollin
#32. A monster movie is only as good as the monster in it.
Matthew Reilly
#33. To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
Byron Katie
#34. The main thing I sense is...darkness." As soon as the words were out I realized how awful they sounded, so I rushed to clarify, "But it's not a bad darkness. It's more like a warm-summer-night kind of darkenss, not the monster-under-the-bed kind of darkness.
Kristen Day
#35. Annabeth wailed in rage, judo-flipping the monster and dropping on its neck, putting her whole body weight into an elbow strike that would've made any pro wrestler proud.
Rick Riordan
#36. As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.
Ray Santiago
#37. One challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it "you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master." I look into the monster's eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.
Rohvannyn Shaw
#38. I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.
George A. Romero
#39. The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Richard Wright
#40. Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.
Ty Burr
#41. You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn't change its nature. This isn't Beauty and the Beast where my kiss would transform the monster to a prince. If anything, it's Shrek, and his kiss brings out the ogre in me.
Eliza Crewe
#42. If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.
E.K. Johnston
#43. Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.
Terry Pratchett
#45. An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.
Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.
Terry Pratchett
#46. The monster made him do it. It lived in the woods, and this was its home, and it would speak to you only in a whisper that sounded like your own echo.
Megan Miranda
#47. For Pan! Grover rushed in from the right. He threw his sheep bone, which bounced harmlessly off the monster's forehead.
Rick Riordan
#48. It is not what I want from you, Conor O'Malley, it said. It is what you want from me.
"I don't want anything from you," Conor said.
Not yet, said the monster. But you will.
Patrick Ness
#49. Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.
John Flanagan
#50. You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have coming walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness?
Patrick Ness
#51. Would you shake hands with the monster that lives in your closet?
Claire Amber
#52. I'm not in the torturing business, but I am in the monster-killing business.
Reyna Pryde
#53. The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.
Ilona Andrews
#54. My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.
Tony Robbins
#55. Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.
Bill Maher
#56. There are worse things that being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right.
Patrick Ness
#57. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable
George Orwell
#58. Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.
Robert G. Allen
#59. I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise ... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash ...
Bobby Pickett
#60. Of course, die for the monster spawn. It was so Bella.
Stephenie Meyer
#61. ("This is all sounding pretty fairy tale-ish," Conor said, suspiciously.)
(You would not say that if you heard the screams of a man killed by a spear, said the monster. Or his cries of terror as he was torn to pieces by wolves. Now be quiet.)
Patrick Ness
#62. My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
Elliot Richardson
#63. He'd have to tell the Mage what he saw.
I've finally seen the Humdrum, sir.
I know what we're fighting
me.
'What's left of you.' the monster had
said.
What is left of me? Simon wondered.
A ghost? A hole? An echo?
An angry little boy with nervous
hands?
Rainbow Rowell
#65. As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.
Josh Brolin
#66. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
Patrick Ness
#67. Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
Madonna Ciccone
#69. They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you
Blake Crouch
#70. Later, much later, as an adult woman, she wrote of her need to be loved, to be desired, as a ravenous monster with an exigent appetite living in a black hole within. Whatever love was thrown her way, the monster devoured it and left her with nothing.
Rabih Alameddine
#71. There are no monsters. The monster is us.
Ken Liu
#72. In Gotham, the Monster Men are always coming.
Tom King
#73. I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!
Stephenie Meyer
#75. She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen's egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster's face.
Tim Lebbon
#76. Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become - there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.
Thomas Haden Church
#77. The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
Walid Jumblatt
#78. Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.
Ian Niall
#79. The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.
Gemma Farrow
#80. The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.
Douglas Preston
#81. I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.
Matt Barr
#82. She was a magnificent creature created in a science lab, the bride of Frankenstein. He, of course, comprehended that he was the monster. Freddy was Frankenstein, the creator.
Emmie White
#83. Conor looked down at his hands, finally unclenching them. "Because what I thought was so wrong."
It was not wrong, the monster said, It was only a thought, one of a million. It was not an action.
Patrick Ness
#84. What you must do," said Monkey, "is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.
Wu Cheng'en
#85. Me & my fellow fairies are running away from a huge monster that keeps destroying our home land,sobbed Farina.
The monster is terribly scary,has huge jaws, creates clouds of smoke & makes loads of noise everywhere it goes.
Magda M. Olchawska
#86. Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#87. Man acquired a soul and he must fight with all the powers at his disposal to protect that soul against the monster in his dark past.
Etienne Leroux
#88. Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all.
Julie Kagawa
#89. I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.
Patrick Ness
#90. I stared at the thing, blinking, thinking it would reveal itself to be, I don't know, a hot-water heater or something. Then I realized the monster-shaped shadow was, surprisingly, a monster.
David Wong
#91. While discussing the monster:
"It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass," Miss Hawkline said, "A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud."
"I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one," Cameron said.
Richard Brautigan
#92. I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.
Kameron Hurley
#93. A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Joseph Campbell
#94. As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.
Patrick Ness
#95. In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their ears- I'm the monster's father.
Kenzaburo Oe
#96. Love is the great redeemer, the Franciscan had said. Through love, all things are possible. Gideon bit back the triumphant laughter rising in his chest. He'd beaten the monster. Just once, but if he'd restrained it once, he could do it again.
Through love, all things are possible.
Shelby Reed
#97. I'm afraid I'm going to look at your perfect face, and you're finally going to see me as the monster I am.
T.M. Frazier
#98. The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.
Patrick Ness
#99. The Court of Dreams.
The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares ... And the huntress with an artist's soul.
Sarah J. Maas
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