The Monsters We Make Quotes

“I’ve never understood this Beggars’ Night,” she said. “It’s so weird. In Florida, we just trick-or-treated on Halloween night like everyone else. I don’t get why they do it on a different night here.” “I know why,” Crystal said. “I read about it in the paper.” She balled up her napkin. “It was started in 1938 during World War II by the Des Moines Playground Commission, or what we now call Parks and Recreation. And they started it because Halloween night had become a problem with vandalism and destructive behaviors like setting fires and breaking windows.” She leaned forward for effect. “Just real hooliganism, as they called it back then.”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“It was October thirtieth, Beggars’ Night for the city of Des Moines,”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“She preferred wholesome family programs, like The Cosby Show, nice stories portrayed by nice actors.”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“saw the twenty-fifth-anniversary butter cow sculpture,”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“Thirty minutes later, he arrived at the outskirts of Ankeny as dusk settled.”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“A tip had just come in on the hotline about a cornfield between north Des Moines and the little bedroom community of Ankeny.”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“So now the national media, the television networks and the national press are fascinated with an unlikely tale: terror in Des Moines, of all places. We are on display, each one of us bit players in a drama that examines what’s wrong in a place that’s supposed to be so right.”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make

“Kovacs raised the binoculars to his eyes and pointed them directly at Dale. Dale lifted his hand and formed his thumb and index finger into the barrel of gun, sighted right at Kovacs’s forehead. He lowered his thumb and mouthed, Bang.”
― Kali White, The Monsters We Make