"Grief was a physical thing, gripping him like a clamp, clenching him tight as a muscle. He could barely breath from the sheer effort of it."
"All you have to do is tell the truth."
"You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."
"How do you fight all the different stuff inside?... By speaking the truth."
"Human beings are complicated beasts."
"Wish for the end of your own pain...an end to how it isolated you...is the most human wish of all."
"Stories are wild creatures. When you let them loose who knows what havoc they might wreak."
"A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully."
"Belief is half of healing."
A Monster Calls is totally unbelievable must read! It gave me shivers and made me cry. Conor's mom is dying of cancer and his dad has moved to America with his new family. Conor is having horrible nightmares featuring 2 different monsters. One monster is the yew tree he can see from his bedroom window - personified and greatly enlarged. The tree monster tells stories and leaves tangible evidence of his visits. The story deals with grief, love, truth, family, friendship, and bullying. Patrick Ness wrote this awesome, inspiring tale from an idea left by Siobhan Dowd. Jim Kay did the arresting illustrations.
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