"A Monster Calls" Quotes

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

You were merely a mistake I made. You were never supposed to exist.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said. Or a hundred days. But a hundred seconds would do.

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

Humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a savior? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted?

Every time you tell the truth, it's like another petal falls from the flower.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary.

I will tell you three stories. Then, you will tell me a fourth.