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“Don’t look back. You’ll never see anything but what you’re doing your best to leave behind, and you’re a lot more likely to trip and fall down, which gives it another chance to eat you.”
I’ve never seen a skeleton army, but if they exist, I’m absolutely positive they’d be marching on Ohio. There’s nothing else to do in Ohio. It’s just corn, corn, skeleton army, possibly evil corn maze, football, corn.
The trouble with people is that we’re all stories already in progress.
I like being alive. It’s how I get things done.
“Sometimes it’s important to stop and breathe. It’ll improve your mood. It’ll also improve your aim. Nothing fixes most problems like shooting them in the head.”
“Never go into a book. Either it’s a dimensional portal, which is bad, or it’s some sort of Dungeons and Dragons-style mimic-thing, which is also bad, although in a less ‘we’ll never find your body’ sort of a way.”
where I come from, if someone presents you with a situation you can’t win, you don’t say ‘well, guess Starfleet wants me to fail this exam.’ You say ‘what would James Tiberius Kirk do,’ and then you shoot the asshole who broke into your house in the head and go about your business.”
person is just a ghost with a nice Sunday suit of breath and blood and bone.
“If you do your job and get out, people will wonder about you forever. If you do your job, ask for applause, and pass the hat, they’ll forget you in the morning.”
If someone popped up and told me they were the chosen one, destined to save the world from darkness, I’d ask them very nicely to get away from me, in case it was catching.”
There’s always a loophole. If you look long and hard enough, there’s always a loophole.
“When we know what something looks like, sometimes we stop seeing it. We make assumptions based on the things we know, and we don’t go looking for proof, because we don’t need it anymore.”
You’re one woman. Granted, you’re faintly terrifying, and I’m not sure I’m going to survive knowing you,
“I’m sorry reality doesn’t come with a recap at the top of every hour,”
There was a time when I thought I was the smart one in my family. Now I just think I’m the one who was saving up all her stupidity to use it in one gloriously impressive display of What Not To Do.
win,” I said, and waited a beat for his reaction. None came. I sighed. “You need to watch more reality television, or my tendency to talk entirely in pop culture references when stressed isn’t going to make this easier.
“Find out what people expect and then do as close to the opposite as your conscience and the laws of physics will allow. Gets ’em every time.”
Sometimes, good intentions do more damage than all the wicked plots in all the world.
There’s not a chosen one. There never was. There’s just people, all over the world, trying their best to make sure the sun comes up tomorrow. We do the job because we know the job exists, and once you know the job exists, it’s hard to pretend it doesn’t matter.
“Nobody’s chosen. Everybody gets to choose. Make the choice that brings you home. We’re not being paid to save the world, here.”
Seeing it in my own handwriting made it make more sense. That always happened. Making a thing your own made it more comprehensible, and hence easier to manage.
“We make our choices. We live with their consequences. That’s what it means to walk in this world, whether we like it or not.”
