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41 " But what if the monsters come?" " Fancy." Kit looked away from the drama to stare at her sister, surprised. " We are the monsters. "
42 " It was the deepest part of the night. There was a name for it that I couldn’t remember – that mystical black hour where all is darkest and you can’t sleep, when the weight of all your sorrows and bad decisions come weighing on you most heavily, and when the monsters scratch just outside your door. "
43 " …believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t. "
― Louise Penny , A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)
44 " Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through the almost solid g "
45 " There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves. "
― Shannon L. Alder
46 " Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when then different perceptions battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. And the monsters find a way of getting out. "
47 " Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone. "
― George R.R. Martin , A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
48 " Yes, the monsters were real. Are real. There are creatures in this world that exist beyond the scope of what you know and see. Remember, not all are created equal. Some are better…and worse than others…just like humans. "
― R.W. Patterson
49 " I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isn’t a part-time job, it’s not about being nice to people, it’s about reality. I made a terrible mistake once, believing the monsters that want to hurt us are easily labeled and identified, rather than walking and hiding amongst us. That’s my reality. "
― Tucker Elliot , The Rainy Season
50 " First thing I'd do is make sure the poor newbie demigods don't have to suffer through the orientation film." All conversation stopped. " What orientation film?" Will Solace asked.Nico looked puzzled. " You know ..." He glanced side to side, clearly uncomfortable with everybody watching him. Finally he cleared his throat and sang in a warbly voice to the tune of " The Hokey Cokey" : " It lets the demigods in! It shuts the monsters out! It keeps the half-bloods safe, but turns mortals all about! It's Misty, and it's magic, and it makes me want to shout: the border is all about!" He punctuated the last line of the song with some half-hearted claps.We stared at him in stunned silence." Nico." Will patted his boyfriend's arm. " You're scaring the other campers." " More than usual," Julia Feingold muttered under her b "
51 " There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win. "
― George R.R. Martin
52 " Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. "
― Jacques Derrida
53 " Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the name of fighting crime. Prison places cost the US taxpayer more than university places. The American belief that prisons are the best way to combat crime has led to an incarceration rate that is at least five times that of almost any industrialised nation. Overcrowding is endemic. Conditions are appalling, varying from windowless, sensory-deprived isolation to barren futile brutality. "
54 " I had come to discover that " safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust. "
55 " But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then. "
― Sarah J. Maas , Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
56 " Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn. "
― Sarah J. Maas , A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
57 " Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita "
― Laurell K. Hamilton , Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #19)
58 " You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.”“Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.”“Why?”“There’s no one to stop them.”There was silence for a moment.“There’s me,” said Tiffany. "
― Terry Pratchett , The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
59 " People think it's the monsters who do bad things, but it's not. It's people like us. All the monsters ever do is live in storybooks. Or in closets. It's the humans who destroy things. Life isn't black and white, James. It's all fucking gray. "
― Saffron A. Kent , A War like Ours
60 " I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be. "
― Gavin G. Smith , A Quantum Mythology