The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.
Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.
Are you afraid of the dark?” I asked. “No. Monsters aren't real. This is real. I'm scared of what could happen when the lights go out.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of them at your mercy.
...they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed...
...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...
...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...
...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
Lucius didn’t believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.
People don’t want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.
So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to...
She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.
