We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: children monsters taliban
That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
Dave MatthesTags: innocence love music hate eternity death childhood beat book guitar monsters memories irony comfort stage rock-and-roll drums
Art, like Nature, has her monsters
Oscar WildeHow different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a world of luprachaun and clurichaune, deev and cloolie, and through the maze of mystery I have to thread my painful way, now learning how to distinguish oufe from pooka, and nis from pixy; study long screeds upon the doings of effreets and dwergers, or decipher the dwaul of delirious monks who have made homunculi from refuse. Waking or sleeping, the image of some uncouth form is always present to me. What would I not give for a volume by the once despised 'A. L. O. E' or prosy Emma Worboise? Talk of the troubles of Winifred Bertram or Jane Eyre, what are they to mine? Talented authoresses do not seem to know that however terrible it may be to have as a neighbour a mad woman in a tower, it is much worse to have to live in a kitchen with a crocodile. This elementary fact has escaped the notice of writers of fiction; the re-statement of it has induced me to reconsider my decision as to the most longed-for book; my choice now is the Swiss Family Robinson. In it I have no doubt I should find how to make even the crocodile useful, or how to kill it, which would be still better.
("Mysterious Maisie")
Tags: monsters fairy jane-eyre folklore occult crocodile creature fae faerie a-l-o-e emma-jane-worboise swiss-family-robinson
We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
Iain M. BanksTags: human-nature monsters leaders
The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.
Cassandra ClareTags: monsters magnus-bane nephilim bogeyman
Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.
Thomm QuackenbushTags: fear hope childhood magic monsters
Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.
Neil GaimanNot all the monsters have fangs.
J.A. LondonTags: monsters vampires darkness-before-dawn
When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels.
After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky.
Tags: mistakes monsters responsibilities
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