A Monster Calls * Quotes

"There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible, it was just that people had become used to not seeing him. One day the invisible man couldn't stand it anymore. He kept wondering if no one sees you are you really there at all. He called for a monster."

The Monster: "What shall I destroy next?"
Connor: "Break the windows!"
The Monster: "Break them yourself."

"It's okay that you're angry, I'm angry too, and if you need to break things, by God you break them."

"I wish I had a hundred years, a hundred years I could give to you."

Mother: "Okay, are you ready? There we go. What color is that?"
Connor: "Black."
Mother: "Yeah. Maybe if we take a pencil and then we make a face, and then we see the life in the eyes, life is always in the eyes. [after finishing drawing] There's our monster."

"You're coming to live me with me. Don't touch anything."

"I know everything about you, Connor O'Malley. The truth you dream, the truth that you hide."