Matt Shaw

“They were happy because they didn't have enough imagination to look ahead, he thought, and anyone who tried to tell them there were dangers was by definition an enemy of the community.”
― Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

“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

“No one insists a corpse is still alive or a bird is still an egg but somehow a man is always what he used to be, and if he takes charge of his future people say he's not himself, that they don't know him anymore.”
― Personne, Traitor Comet

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