“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
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