"Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

What was that moment like for her? The moment she lit the match. Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirins? Or was it just an inspiration?

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day. I lined them up on my desk and took them one by one, counting. But it's not the same as what she did. I could have stopped, at ten, or at thirty. And I could have done what I did do, which was go onto the street and faint. Fifty aspirin is a lot of aspirin, but going onto the street and fainting is like putting the gun back in the drawer.

She lit the match."
— Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted)

"She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically."
— Hugh Laurie

"I’m trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere

Didn’t cha know, didn’t cha know
Tried to move but I lost my way
Didn’t cha know, didn’t cha know
Stopped to watch my emotions sway
Didn’t cha know, didn’t cha know
Knew the toll, but I would not pay
Didn’t cha know, didn’t cha know
Cause you never know where the cards may lay

Time to save the world
Where in the world is all the time
So many things I still don’t know
So many times I’ve changed my mind
Guess I was born to make mistakes
But I ain’t scared to take the weight
So when I stumble off the path
I know my heart will guide me back
"
— Erykah Badu

"Do you believe in God
Written on the bullet
Say yes to pull the trigger"
— Flyelaf . Cassie

"I think a plan is just a list of things that don't happen."
— Parker

"there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. "
— longbaugh

"tell ya the truth, I don't think this is a brains kind of operation. "
— longbaugh

"i promise you a day of reckoning that you won't live long enough to never forget. "
— joe sarno

"need is the ultimate monkey."
— Parker

"When you think about deaf people, people who are born deaf... who've never heard a spoken word. What do you think they call the sun or their mother... or their own reflection in the mirror? That's what I call it.
"
— Robin

"For the record I'll call myself Mr. Parker. My associate will be Mr. Longbaugh. "
— Parker

"Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet."
— Terence McKenna

"Listen, when some asshole pulls a gun on me, he loses his right to a warm milky drink and fucking cuddles, okay?"
— Warren Ellis (Black Summer Limited Edition)

"The best woman is like a gun."
— William Christopher Baer