I leave you the best phrases from A monster comes to see me, a children's novel written by Patrick Ness and the original idea of Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer before being able to finish it. It was made into a movie in 2016.
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1- “The monster appeared after twelve at night. How all monsters do ”. - Ness Patrick.
2- "What happened in the nightmare no one had to know." - Ness Patrick.
3- “Monsters were a baby thing. The monsters were the thing of children who peed in bed ”. - Ness Patrick.
4- “He didn't want to get up to look. And, at the same time, a part of him wanted it more than anything in the world. " - Ness Patrick.
5- “-You're not afraid, huh? -No, at least not from you. " - Conor O'Malley.
6- “It had been a dream. What else could it have been? " - Ness Patrick.
7- “He did not like how his grandmother spoke to him, as if he were an employee of hers who was on trial. A test that of course I would not pass. " - Ness Patrick.
8- "I wish you didn't have to be so good." - Conor's mom.
9- "Do not think that you have not lived long enough not to have a story to tell." - Miss Marl.
10- “A couple of important things that had happened occurred to him. Nothing I would like to write, however ”- Ness Patrick.
11- “To the fact that everything had seemed possible to them. To all the good things that could perfectly have happened right there and at that very moment and how little that would have surprised them. - Ness Patrick.
12- “That was the bad thing. Conor had gotten used to it too. " - Ness Patrick.
13- “But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who says that everything else is not what a dream is? " - Monster.
14- “I am not a what. I am a who. " - Monster.
15- "I am everything that is not domesticated and cannot be domesticated!" - Monster.
16- "I have had as many names as the time has years!" - Monster.
17- “Stories are the wildest of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt. " - Monster.
18- "You know that your truth, that truth that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is what scares you the most in the world." - Monster.
19- “I have a name, you know? And he's not a boy ”- Conor O'Malley.
20- "He only knew he was asleep when the nightmare came." - Ness Patrick.
21- "Stories are wild creatures When you release them, who knows the disasters they can cause?" - Monster.
22- "She was nothing more than the daughter of a farmer, but she was very beautiful, and also intelligent, as the daughters of farmers must be, as running a farm is a very complicated matter." - Monster.
23- "Sometimes people need to lie to themselves more than anything else." - Monster.
24- "You always have to listen with skepticism to the justification of the men who kill" - Monster.
25- “There is not always a good one. There is not always a bad guy. Almost everyone is somewhere in between. " - Monster.
26- "Many things that are true seem false." - Monster.
27- “Or maybe it wasn't a dream. Which would be even worse. " - Ness Patrick
28- "A stalker with charisma and good grades is still a stalker" - Miss Kwan.
29- “What would distance matter if it were just a dream? Couldn't a dream cross the entire city on foot? " - Conor O'Malley.
30- "If it served to save my daughters, I would renounce everything" - Parish priest.
31- "Belief is half of all healing" - Monster.
32- "Destruction is something very gratifying" - Ness Patrick.
33- "It's never too late" - Conor's Mom.
34- "I am convinced of everything I say" - Conor's mother.
35- “The green things in this world are wonderful, right? We strive to get rid of them and it turns out that many times they are just what saves us. - Conor's mom.
36- "Stories don't always have a happy ending." - Conor's dad.
37- “Stories are important. They can be more important than anything else. If they carry the truth. " - Monster.
38- "And if nobody sees you, can you say you're there?" - Monster.
39- "There are worse things than being invisible" - Monster.
40- “As incredible as it may seem, time continued to pass for the rest of the world. The rest of the world who was not waiting. " - Ness Patrick.
41- "Believe it so that you would believe it." - Conor's mom.
42- "I know everything you have to say to me without having to say it out loud." - Conor's mom.
43- "I wish I had a hundred years left, a hundred years to give you." - Conor's mom.
44- "You are the one who has the answers to those questions." - Monster.
45- “I wasn't even able to say it now. Not even if they had spoken. Not even if he had known all along. Because of course he knew, of course he had known, as much as he wanted to believe it wasn't true, of course he knew. But still I couldn't tell. " - Conor O'Malley.
46- "Either you tell the truth or you will never get out of this nightmare" - Monster.
47- “Saying it will kill me. -What will kill you is not saying it ”- Conor - Monster.
48- “I can't take it anymore! I can't bear to know that he's going to leave! I want it to happen now! I want all of this to end! " - Conor O'Malley.
49- “I was still alive. Which was the worst that could have happened. " - Ness Patrick.
50- "A part of you wanted that to end, even if it meant losing it." - Monster.
51- “You only wanted the pain to end, your own pain. End your isolation. It is the most human desire there is ”- Monster.
52- "It doesn't matter what you think because the mind will contradict itself a hundred times a day" - Monster.
53- “Your mind will believe the white lies but it also knows the truths that hurt and that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. " - Monster.
54- “You don't write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. The only important thing is what you do. " - Monster.
55- "If you tell the truth, you will be able to face everything that comes." - Monster.
56- "It was going to happen, regardless of what he wanted, regardless of what he felt." - Ness Patrick.