Creatures Quotes

“We experience our monsters first in all their strange and striking particularity, as the host of details that assembles into them. Only later do we see them as vessels fit for carrying a weight of meaning, as something other than literal.”
― John Langan, Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters

“Turned out the world wasn’t made up of black hats and white hats, and the only way to tell who was on your side was looking at which way their guns were facing.”
― John Langan, Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters

“monsters are among the building blocks of our cultures, a legacy to accompany the languages we learn.”
― John Langan, Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters