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It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one.

Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not ...

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Max BrooksThe Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more compl...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on ...

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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common ...

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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a v...

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We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a ...

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Couldn’t we camp down by the lakes?” Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. “It must be ...

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What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongsid...

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loat...

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If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be...

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Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted...

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

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Terry PratchettA Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

He thought of the deep crevasses and windy caves of Underlay, and the stories of the creatures that ...

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You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.”“Another world...

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I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consi...

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You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any ...

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The Groke looked at the hat. Then she looked at Thingumy and Bob. Then she looked at the hat again. ...

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Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

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Truman CapoteAnswered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any wor...

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Alastair ReynoldsThousandth Night / Minla's Flowers

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children ...

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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of...

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You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome ...

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Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to th...

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Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

He is a demon, Clarissa,” said Valentine, still in the same soft voice. “A demon with a man’s face. ...

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

The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. L...

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Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they...

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It"s easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing w...

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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

A monster lies in wait in me,A stew of wounds and misery,But fiercer still in life and limb,The me t...

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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is...

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David EaglemanSum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Drac...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the t...

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WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To...

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...

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Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings ...

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TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my tho...

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I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not on...

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Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

Their bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest: but it does no...

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I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...

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She was a monster, but she was my monster.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their so...

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It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it tha...

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Jim ButcherSide Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters an...

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That's arrogance, Harry. " he said, gently. "On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. A...

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Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it...

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The only monsters I have ever known were men.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous

Good luck to you," he said, and she remembered how he had looked at her as she pinned Yah Tayyib, as...

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We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.

Nyx had killed a lot of people. She'd let even more die through neglect. Rhys was just one more. I'm...

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Kameron HurleyThe Body Project

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of ...

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes the...

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Let’s pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren’t keeping ...

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