“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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“Thus she returned to the theme of ‘before,’ but in a different way than she had at first. She said that we didn’t know anything, either as children or now, that we were therefore not in a position to understand anything, that everything in the neighborhood, every stone or piece of wood, everything, anything you could name, was already there before us, but we had grown up without realizing it, without ever even thinking about it. Not just us. Her father pretended that there had been nothing before. Her mother did the same, my mother, my father, even Rino… <…> They didn’t know anything, they wouldn’t talk about anything. Not Fascism, not the king. No injustice, no oppression, no exploitation … And they thought that what had happened before was past and, in order to live quietly, they placed a stone on top of it, and so, without knowing it, they continued it, they were immersed in the things of before, and we kept them inside us, too.”
― quote from My Brilliant Friend
“The human brain can be compared to a modern flight simulator in several respects. Like a flight simulator, it constructs and continuously updates an internal model of external reality by using a continuous stream of input supplied by the sensory organs and employing past experience as a filter. It integrates sensory-input channels into a global model of reality, and it does so in real time. However, there is a difference. The global model of reality constructed by our brain is updated at such great speed and with such reliability that we generally do not experience it as a model. For us, phenomenal reality is not a simulational space constructed by our brains; in a direct and experientially untranscendable manner, it is the world we live in. Its virtuality is hidden, whereas a flight simulator is easily recognized as a flight simulator—its images always seem artificial. This is so because our brains continuously supply us with a much better reference model of the world than does the computer controlling the flight simulator. The images generated by our visual cortex are updated much faster and more accurately than the images appearing in a head-mounted display. The same is true for our proprioceptive and kinesthetic perceptions; the movements generated by a seat shaker can never be as accurate and as rich in detail as our own sensory perceptions.”
― Thomas Metzinger, quote from The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
“All things considered, it had been his home, and the set of kindly, well-meaning, gentle-mannered people driven to death or exile for the sole crime of their existing, was the set to which he too belonged. His dark youthful broodings, the romantic—and let me add, somewhat artificial—passion for his mother’s land, could not, I am sure, exclude real affection for the country where he had been born and bred.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.”
― Allen Carr, quote from The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method
“I don’t think we should spend any time wandering around that remote possibility. It’s nice of you to wish me well, but actually I find it unbearably patronizing.”
― Maeve Binchy, quote from Heart and Soul
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