“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid.
Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed.
Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep.
No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way.
They all end the same, too.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“What kind of assholes bring a kid into worlds like these?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“They can't hurt us, you big babies! We're intangible! Why are you guys acting like you just died yesterday?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Trust me, this whole freakout is probably just hormonal. You only gave birth, what, a week ago? Your body's still, like, a wasteland of chemical imbalance.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.
Not everybody does.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Dude, your husband is gonna die!”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“So what? He’s good to you and Hazel now, isn’t he? Who cares if he’s got history with some other broad?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died...”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“Oh, fuck you, you self-righteous piece of...BALD”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
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“He is in his late sixties, but has the charm of extreme youth, for he comes to a pleasure and hails it happily for what it is without any bitterness accumulated from past disappointments, and he believes that any moment the whole process of life may make a slight switch-over and that everything will be agreeable for ever. His manners would satisfy the standards of any capital in the world, but at the same time he is exquisitely, pungently local.”
― Rebecca West, quote from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.”
― David Mitchell, quote from The Bone Clocks
“Is he one of them now? Frustrated, stuck, self-watching, looking for a means of connection, a way to break out. After Oswald, men in America are no longer required to lead lives of quiet desperation. You apply for a credit card, buy a handgun, travel through cities, suburbs and shopping malls, anonymous, anonymous, looking for a chance to take a shot at the first puffy empty famous face, just to let people know there is someone out there who reads the papers.”
― Don DeLillo, quote from Libra
“I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, quote from Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from True Colors
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