I don’t remember a single monster before I met you.’ he’d told Amphibian. ‘Now they seem to be all over the place.”You mean there wasn’t anything you were afraid of?’ the Amphibian had asked him.’lots.”What...

The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity’s sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.

Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

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,...

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him

Solomon breathed a sigh of relief ever so slightly, thankful that the cricket had not been eaten. Not that he was concerned for the cricket being eaten. No, he was simply relieved that the voice...

The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.

If you drive the turnpikes and main-traveled highways of America you may have seen them… How many times have you found yourself waiting behind a lumbering RV eating exhaust and waiting impatiently for your chance...

Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.

Rafael?””Yeah?”„Do we all have monsters?”„Yes.”„Why does God give us so many monsters?”„You want to know my theory?”„Sure.”„I think it’s other people who give us monsters. Maybe God doesn’t have anything to do with it.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

Oh,” the girl said, shaking her head. “Don’t be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is,...

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

…our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives…

The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.” —Alice Healy

Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.