Beholder Quote by Kerri Maniscalco

“Every story needs its hero. And its villain. And its monster.”

— Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

“The men who killed your monsters weren’t heroes. They were even more frightening.”

— Lisa Henry

“I'm not fond of immutable villains in stories. Most people try to do what they think is right or just, and that's what brings…

— R. Leib

“It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight more storytellers.”

— Gerald Morris

“Monsters are tragic beings; they are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy.”

— Ishiro Honda

“Monsters are only as real as the stories that grant them life. And they only live for as long as we tell those tales.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“For a story was only as good as its villain.”

— Renee Ahdieh

“Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free. If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.”

— Sarah Diemer

“It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.”

— Samantha Young

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

— Dan Brown

“Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.”

— Stephen T. Asma

“In the darkness, he couldn’t see the monsters when they came for him. If”

— Ethan Cross