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• I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

  Stephenie Meyer

  Taken, Breathing, Magic

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

  Lady Gaga

  Speaks Out, Church, Prejudice

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• He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had disappeared. "Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn't the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, the wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Eye, Cutting

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

  Bernhard Schlink

  People, Would Be, Easy

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 12, 2010

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• What is it?' Stephanie whispered. 'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.' She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?' 'I told you what it is, it's a horrible monster. Now shut up before it comes over here and eats us.

  Derek Landy

  Shut Up, Horrible, Dear

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• Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

  Stephen King

  Real, Halloween, Childhood

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Caliban

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• look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or when you're shifting, you don't have human inhibitions, so if you're naturally angry or violent, you get worse.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Looks, Shifting, Violent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are certain people I trust no matter what. Even when it seems like they've turned into monsters, you need to stay true to them. Because, in the end, they'll be the ones backing you up.

  Maria V. Snyder

  People, Needs, Matter

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Sea Glass”, p.397, Harlequin

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• All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

  Clive Barker

  Rainbow, Horror, Astronaut

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Sep 03, 2013

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• just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.

  Lady Gaga

  Baby, Love You, And Love

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• V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. "My monster needs to get out. Especially now.

  J.R. Ward

  Giving Up, Tired, Needs

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• Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Circles, Space

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, 2005.

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• But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, People, Forgiving

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• God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted a world where heroes and villains were clearly labeled. Where ominous music comes on-screen so you can't possibly mistake him. Where someone asks you to choose between playing with the beautiful princess in the fragrant garden and being eaten by the hideous monster in the foul-smelling pit. Not exactly a difficult one, now is it? Not something that you would agonize over, or that would make you lose a night's sleep?

  Marian Keyes

  Beautiful, Mistake, Hero

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• You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.

  Karen Maitland

  Love, Fall, Men

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• War makes monsters out of men.

  Patrick Ness

  War, Men, Chaos Walking

  "The Knife of Never Letting Go". Book by Patrick Ness, www.theguardian.com. 2008.

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• I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  I Loved You, Brutal, Despicable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.378, Vintage

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• A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Giving, Privacy

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• I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wanted

  "The Host". Book by Stephenie Meyer, February 26, 2009.

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• A girl can dream." His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?" "Not exactly," I said, frowning at his word choice. Monster, indeed. "Mostly I dream about being with you forever.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Dream, Eyebrows

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

  Kristin Cashore

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• by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hero, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

  John Steinbeck

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Sea of Cortez ch. 4 (1941)

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• Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teacher, Powerful, People

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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