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“Manchmal war sie sich nicht sicher, wer die größere Macke hatte: der Autor, der sich diesen kranken Mist ausdachte, oder sie, die sie sogar Geld dafür bezahlte, um es sich mit Axtmördern und Psychopathen am Pool gemütlich machen zu können.”
― Passagier 23
― Passagier 23
“The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
That's what teachers always say, Conor said. No one believes them either.”
― A Monster Calls
That's what teachers always say, Conor said. No one believes them either.”
― A Monster Calls
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