A Monster Calls Quotes

Stories are wild creatures.

You do not come into a monster’s house and demand to see it.

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

We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth.

The truth is often the greatest weapon of all.

You were not meant to see the truth, Connor O’Malley. You are barely meant to survive it.

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

You’re only young once, they say, but doesn’t it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

You do not write your life with words… You write it with actions.

Faith is like a shot in the dark.

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

Most of us just have to keep living despite it.

I wish I had a hundred years… A hundred years I could give to you.

Each time you tell a story, you give away one of your truths.

You must say the words. You must say them precisely.

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

People are only that scary when you give them the power to scare you.

You’ve been yanked out of your own world and shoved into one you don’t make sense in.

The next thing that happens is up to you.

A Monster Calls Quotes part 2

I no longer needed to break myself to understand myself.

We all see what we want to see. You have to look with better eyes than that.

But people are complicated creatures. You have to find the beauty in them even when they’re ugly.

You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions.

Who am I to refuse the universe?

You were merely existing instead of truly living.

You have to let people help you.

…you have been using your nightmare to keep yourself awake, and the nightmare is completely and utterly exhausting.

Do you think I’m doing a good job? Being a person?

It’s okay to be afraid.

And humans, if nothing else, have the great ability to see themselves in whatever they choose to see themselves in.

I wish you had ties. I think if you did, I would have taught you how to knot them.

We are more than the parts of ourselves we choose to show.

People believe in fairy tales because they want to believe in something bigger than themselves.

Trust is a choice.

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

Didn’t you see what happened? Don’t you understand anything that’s happened here?

Sometimes you have to let someone save your life.

You were merely existing instead of truly living.

Children are not always grounded in what you would expect them to be grounded in.

There is not always a good guy, nor is there always a bad one.

We do not write the things we do because we understand them, we write them because we must.

You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions.

When a monster calls, you answer.

When you hit that wall, the only thing you can do is push through.

You must say the words, Connor. Promise me you will say them.”

Fear is a funny thing.

The answers you need are already inside of you.

You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions.

The worst thing is not to suffer. It’s to have a hundred percent certainty in suffering.

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