“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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“Nunca puedes predecir lo que pasará en una pelea. Si eres lo bastante estúpido como para iniciar una, serás culpable de lo que ocurra, sea intencionado o no.”
― Robert Muchamore, quote from The Recruit
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”
― Walker Percy, quote from The Moviegoer
“Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that....But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of.”
― Adam Smith, quote from The Wealth of Nations
“Ik lag op mijn arm tot er geen gevoel meer in zat en toen tilde ik hem op (met mijn nietgevoelloze arm) en legde hem op mijn borsten. Ik wilde weten hoe het voelde om een vreemde hand op je borsten te hebben. Het was wel aangenaam, maar wat weet ik er nou van? Ik zit vol rare verlangens om helder te kunnen denken. Moet ik mijn beha aan naar het feest?”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Styxx
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