Creatures Quote by Shirley Jackson

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become…

— Emil Ferris

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

— Dylan Moran

I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near…

— Lauren Oliver

[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger…

— Evalyn Walsh McLean

I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both…

— Veronica Roth

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be…

— Elizabeth I

That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget…

— Anonymous

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its…

— Melissa Bank

When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get…

— Glenda Millard

I liked being the monster that was bigger than everybody around me.

— Big Show

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a…

— Sarah Waters

The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.

— Richard Siken