#monsters

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. ↗

— Stephen King

#king

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#monsters #nietzsche #battle

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#monsters #hate

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#based #culture #even #every #geographical

But what if the monsters come?" "Fancy." Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. "We are the monsters. ↗

— Dia Reeves

#murder #sisters #drama

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#makes #men #monsters #prosperity

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#america #destroy #does #go #monsters

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#become #begin #being #careful #expect

Let the battle for peace commence ↗

— Patrick Ness

#monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #men

Men may sail the seas for a lifetime and seldom, if ever, come in contact with the nightmare monsters that inhabit the caves and cliffs of the ocean floor. Gazing down at the slightly muddy water, the men of The Unicorn saw a squirming mass of interwoven tentacles resembling enormous snakes, immensely thick and long and tapering at their free ends to the size of a man's thumb. It was a foul sight, an obscene growth from the dark places of the world, where incessant hunger is the driving force. At one place, down near the bulge of the hull, appeared a staring gorgon face with great lidless eyes and a huge parrot beak that moved slightly, opening and shutting as though it had just crunched and swallowed a meal of warm flesh. ("Fire In The Galley Stove") ↗

— William Outerson

#giant-squid #kraken #octopus #sea-monsters #squid