#monster

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#enough #gods #grateful #i #ian

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#monster #sex #sexuality #freedom

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#monsters #zombies #love

I am the Circle and the Circle is me ↗

— Patrick Ness

#monsters-of-men #the-ask-and-the-answer #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #men

Viola?            Keep calling for me–                      And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you–             You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#patrick-ness #todd #viola #life

See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#monsters-of-men #men

My heart is broken, broken in a way that will never be healed, broken in a way that feels like it’s going to kill me, too, right here on this stupid, freezing beach ↗

— Patrick Ness

#men

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this ↗

— Seth Tucker

#fighting #guns #monsters #werewolves #men