„Adults are the real monsters.“

— Stephen King
„The real world is where the monsters are.“
— Rick Riordan
„Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.“
— Stephen King
„We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.“
— Stephen King
„Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.“
— Stephen King
„Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.“
— William Faulkner
„Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?“
— Friedrich Nietzsche