Matt Shaw

“When people treat you like a monster, you start to act like one.”
― Molly Knox Ostertag, The Hidden Witch

“To return from the dead is a bit like riding a bike, or unfastening a girl's bra with a single hand. It's all a question of getting the knack.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling underneath civilization . . . they must be defeated again and again, kept at bay.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Because myths miss out all the sordid realities and preserve only "What we wish we'd done," rather than "How we actually did it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race