“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”

“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita”

“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”

“I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.”

“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”

“We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)”

“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”

“Adults are the real monsters.”