#monster

But how did you know where we were?" Annabeth asked. Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#chiron #grover-underwood #percy-jackson #monsters

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#monsters

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. ↗

— John Carpenter

#had #him #i #like #make

*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you? *She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes. *Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone. *I hate to admit it, but she has a point. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#monsters #phones #death

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. ↗

— Richard Wright

#bow #his #imagination #monster #must

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster. ↗

— Alyson Hannigan

#destroy #god #happen #i #i love

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#along #beautiful #beautiful women #chance #gave

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees. ↗

— Ben Hogan

#course #glad #i #knees #monster

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#makes #men #monsters #prosperity

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dive #explore #get #i #i think