“A necessary monster.”
“A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
“Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.”
“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
“I was pretending to be a monster, and I became a monster.”
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”