#monsters

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

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

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#monsters #monsters

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#stories #monsters

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

TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion ↗

— Georges Bataille

#monsters #reason #religion #sleep #experience

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

...he knows how to make me laugh & sometimes there's no better way to love someone than that. ↗

— Josh James Riebock

#love

...you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood... ↗