#monster

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#efficient #example #face #far #for example

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. ↗

— Voltaire

#belief #monster #opinion #philosophy #belief

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#murder #life

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

Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#monsters #people #werewolves

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#funny #monsters-of-men #funny

You want to stab me again, don't you?" He didn't look at all ashamed. "Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities." I groaned. "I've created a monster." "I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around labels like 'monster,'" he said, making sarcastic little air-quotes fingers. "It wasn't a grave," I sniffed. "It was a comfy four-poster. ↗

— Molly Harper

#funny #jane-jameson #molly-harper #monster #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs

Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me? “Uh, not be a murderous psycho?” Very funny. ↗

— H.D. Gordon

#alexa-montgomery-saga #blood-warrior #monster #remption #funny

Life would be perfect if monster would stop farting. ↗

— David Chuka

#humor #jokes #monsters #life

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#monster #monsters