Response To A Monster Calls
A monster calls, by Patrick Ness/Siobhan Dowd
“Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?
"I don't know," Connor shrugged, exhausted. "Your stories never made any sense to me."
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.” …show more content…
So, in order to push the truth to the side for a bit, it will tell comforting lies to itself, and it will almost believe them, but on a subconscious level, you know full well what you’re telling yourself isn’t true. In the end, your mind will punish you for believing both, as it does not want the truth even considered to be, well, true, and even though you won’t outright feel bad for taking solace in the lies, there certainly is an undertone of silent knowledge.
“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.
And if no one sees you, are you really there at
“Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?
"I don't know," Connor shrugged, exhausted. "Your stories never made any sense to me."
The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.” …show more content…
So, in order to push the truth to the side for a bit, it will tell comforting lies to itself, and it will almost believe them, but on a subconscious level, you know full well what you’re telling yourself isn’t true. In the end, your mind will punish you for believing both, as it does not want the truth even considered to be, well, true, and even though you won’t outright feel bad for taking solace in the lies, there certainly is an undertone of silent knowledge.
“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.
And if no one sees you, are you really there at