#monsters

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#monsters

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#childhood #father #good #good childhood #happy person

It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful. ↗

— Peter Watts

#monsters #beauty

No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#mean #monsters #people #business

All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral—and queer. ↗

— Derek McCormack

#monsters #queer #vampires #life

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#jealousy #mockery #monsters #vices #jealousy

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#monsters #people #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