Balkis’s Reviews > A Monster Calls > Status Update

«And if no one sees you, the monster said, picking up its pace, too, are you really there at all?»

«Many things that are true feel like a cheat.»

«But what is a dream, Conor O’Malley? the monster said, bending down so its face was close to Conor’s. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?»

😢 ““I’m sorry, son,” his mum said,... “I’ve never been more sorry about anything in my life.” 😭

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.”

“Stories are the wildest things of all”, the monster rumbled. “Stories chase and bite and hunt.”