#monster

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#because #being #does #even #here

You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part demon. You understood that much, didn't you?" His eyes bored into her like drills. "You saw what Valentine was trying to do. He used demon blood-used it on me before I was even born. I'm part monster. Part everthing I've tried so hard to burn out, to destroy. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#identity #monster #blood

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#enemy #monster #non-violence #pride #swallows

You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#dracula #feels #frankenstein #honestly #how

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#among #how #just #learn #make

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#because #denying #forget #hitler #makes

The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#invisible-monsters #life #life

Monsters excite us in this way or that. They make our pulse thrum and steal lives from the cat! They're frightening creatures, one peek and you'll see. Yet life without monsters, how dull it would be. Your tense, nervous laugh tells me you disagree? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#monsters #richelle #richelle-goodrich #life

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#monsters #names #supernatural #supernatural

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#monster #monsters #monstrumologist #rick-yancy #science-fiction