She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since- I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want...
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Anonymous
...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...
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John Geddes
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
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Colson Whitehead
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they...
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Ransom Riggs
What was the purpose of a woman monster? It came out in a whisper. ‘What am I for?
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Kristin Cashore
More Quotes By Holly Black
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
