Monster Quote by Susan Stryker

“One by one, the villager torches are lit, and a fire spreads through their circle until it blazes like an enormous bullion ring.”

— Anonymous

“Villagers took her sudden death as a curse of verdict stone…”

— Jalaj Mishra

“If only her problems were as simple as dealing with a handful of townspeople with pitchforks...”

— Wen Spencer

“She’d been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she’d forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“The flames that popped up wouldn't stop coming. Like they were coming straight from her soul. Straight from her anger. Her rage coming out…

— Amanda Leigh

“O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”

— William Golding

“As the invaders caught the villagers and tore into them, they made soothing, crooning noises that somehow drowned out the shrieking. They strangled the…

— Kathe Koja

“She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. But there was nothing…

— Anne Ursu

“There she stood, by herself, amidst all her treasures, with a whole horde of men grovelling at her feet. Like those dreaded monsters of…

— Émile Zola

“Sometimes she felt she would like to engulf him like a trap-lantern, and never share him with anyone or anything else again, not even…

— Frances Hardinge

“A small village lay just over the farthest hill. When he had to feed, he went there. And when he left after feeding, the…

— Linda Howard

“AFTER I DELIVERED VELVET BACK to the farmhouse that night, I entered the condo and walked over to my Minotauromachia. And as I stood…

— Wally Lamb