My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 Quotes

“Never let anyone's darkness provoke you into your own midnight.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.

Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Sometimes a thing happens that's so bad that it feels like things should be made to look on the outside, the way they feel on the inside.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“I guess that's the difference... a good monster sometimes gives somebody a fright because they're weird-looking and fangy... a fact that is beyond their control...

But bad monsters are all about CONTROL... They want the whole world to be scared so that BAD MONSTERS can call the shots.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Deeze says that most things in life aren't right or wrong. He says there's not too much black or white. To his eyes most stuff is like pencil shading. Lots of shades of gray. Mama says it's different. She believes it's either right or wrong. Me? I think they're both wrong. For me it's like a photograph. You have to look close. It looks like shades of gray, but it's really lots and lots of tiny dots of inky black on a perfect page of white,”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. A Nazi is a person who chooses to NOT SEE anything that would keep them from being cruel...even if what they will NOT SEE is how their cruelty will destroy them!”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“...who'd walk to school on Monday and who'd have to pass the smoking heap of what used to be their neighborhoods because when adults are haunted, it's the kids who get the worst frights...The word "aftermath" came to mind. I guess it means the time after something terrible happens when you do the math to figure out what has been added and what's been subtracted.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Sometimes you don’t let yourself know what you know.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“I've come to believe that love is actually the weirdest monster out there. And if you think love doesn't rip people to bloody shreds - you're dead wrong!”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Jeffrey loves to talk about politics and science fiction books and I can never tell which one he's talking about.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“... this is the tender BUD, the SOUL of the tulip... this is the TUNIC... the stiff skin that protects the bulb from the envy of the other flowers... the SCALES hold the tulip's memories... if the bulb feels that we love her and if she can forget Holland she will grow roots from here...”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Sure seems like there's one sure way to get dead in the U. S. of A. and that is to do the right thing.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Of course when the history books tell of the groups murdered by the Nazis, they never list the prostitutes, because I'm sure the mention of their deaths is considered a stain on the other victims. The attitude is that the lives of prostitutes are worthless. I think it is self-hate. Our world hates anyone who would accept us and our bodies, and our secret desires without reservation. But that is what the ladies taught me... to welcome disdained things.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Sometimes I think if you were to put one of those X-Ray machines up to me, you would see the old Missy, the Missy from when we loved monsters together and I have to take care of that part of her... Because inside of Missy that part is in a coffin, in a crypt, staked, hungry, and all alone.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“People who have been loved by their mothers won't understand what I'm about to say —

There are secret unspoken words that flow from a mother to her child. It starts when the child is inside her. Because of the secret words, either the child will feel that the door of the world is closed to them or that they are welcomed.

For the child who isn't welcomed there is always the impulse to oblige the mother... and leave. This temptation whispers to them all their lives. It tips their better judgment off balance. It causes them to ignore their intuition, to dance at the edge of the chasm...”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“This is just another reason why being a human girl stinks compared to being a monster. When I’m a monster I won’t have to keep my mouth shut. No, I’ll open my mouth and use my rows of long sharp teeth to rip up guys like Jerry.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

“Ne laisse jamais la noirceur des autres faire tomber la nuit en toi”
― Emil Ferris, Moi, ce que j'aime, c'est les monstres

“Two weeks ago we learned about the "cephalophore" saints like St. Denis here who carry their own heads... if you love the kind of stuff I do, being Catholic is the way to go... that is... if you can overlook the nuns.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1