Monstrosity Quotes

“Listen to me,” he said, pulling off his coat. “You need to stay awake.”
She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.
He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. “What’s so funny?”
“You’re a really shitty monster, August Flynn.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“Female monstrosity inspires terror because it really can end the world—or our current version of it, anyway. But our world is not the only one, or the best one, and in fact, the more time I spend with monsters, the more I think its destruction is overdue.”
― Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

“I lift up my voices and shatter the night with my emptiness, my heartlessness. With nothing now to bind me, the world is a hunting ground.

- Scylla”
― Zachary Mason, Metamorphica

“She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

“...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.”
― Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist

“As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.”
― Lars Iyer, Spurious

“Yet, my grandfather was not a monster. He was simply a man of ordinary moral courage whose capacity for great evil was revealed to his and my everlasting shame. Labeling someone a monster implies that he is from another world, one which has nothing to do with us. It cuts off the bonds of affection and fear, assures us of our own superiority, but there's nothing learned, nothing gained. It's simple, but it's cowardly. I know now that only by empathizing with a man like my grandfather can we understand the depth of the suffering he caused. There are no monsters. The monster is us.”
― Ken Liu, The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary

“Slowly, however, her lips curled again, her jaw locking open, baring her teeth with too much gum in a wrenching scream. The bloodcurdling sound ringing through his ears while her nails clawed at her chest, hands violently digging through the soft connective tissue and tearing it to ribbons, blood gushed thick and black over the pink of her dress, painting it red. It was then that Henry saw that there was something terrible inside her, attempting to break its way out.
It shattered the marrow of her ribs and slithered from her belly, melting away from her, into a grotesque creature with razor-sharp canines and claws drenched in blood. Her screaming becoming louder, Henry was sure his eardrums were about to burst, and he was caught in a state of paralysis, stuck watching her tear herself apart until all that was left of her was this monstrosity.”
― Kate Winborne, Blossom

“Holiness is a form of monstrosity”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.”
― Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale

“The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf

“Fact #2 about Monsters: If we let them get too hungry, they can swallow us whole.”
― Sandra L. Rostirolla, Making Friends With Monsters

“I will grow monsters.”
― Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

“Maybe he should apologise for the version of himself that would've accepted the loss of her life and filled a pen with her blood. But how exactly did one apologise for theoretical monstrosity? He wasn't very good at apologising for things he had done.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe