He Who Fights with Monsters 2 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #2)

by Shirtaloon

“The better things seem, the worse it will be when the floor falls out from under us. Nothing can hurt you as badly as hope.”

“I know how to fight,” Belinda said. “Kicking a guy in the beans and then running for it is not fighting.” “It got me this far.”

“That’s a good point,” Emir said. “I’ve seen people who overspecialise and end up with five answers to one problem and no answers to the rest.”

“Flight, as in being able to fly?” “That’s how flight works, yes,” Clive said. “So that would be me, able to fly?” “Yes. That would be you. Flying. With your flight power. That makes you fly. Am I overcomplicating this?”

Sophie leaped off the wall, flipping in the air and landing in a crouch. “That may be the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen,” Jason said. “You know you said that out loud, right?” Clive asked. “I’ll stand by it.”

“When someone believes something, they believe it hard. Too hard. They’ll dismiss good evidence that contradicts their belief and accept spurious evidence that supports it. So, in their mind, if you’re wrong, they’re very wrong, and the whole point is that their thoughts don’t go down that path.”

“You should always welcome being proven wrong,” Jason said. “It means your understanding of the world just got a little bit better.”

True enough.

“What?” he asked her. “Why would you lie and claim you were bitten on the head?” she asked. “I’m not lying,” Jason said. “I definitely didn’t get woozy after the fight from teleporting too much while hungover and hit my head on a log.”

You can do almost anything if you're willing to do what it takes. People mostly fail at things because they balk at what they have to do. It's not that the path isn't there but that they aren't willing to walk it. There's a price they aren't willing to pay, be it literal, political, social, whatever. But if you're willing to commit, impossible is just a word for people convincing themselves not to try.”

“I’ve been lucky to find people willing to put up with me, good and bad. Figure out what you are, and be the ever-living crap out of that thing. Then find the people willing to put up with it.

“We are adventurers, Rufus. Our most important lessons come from confronting monsters.”

“Am I a furry now? I don’t want to be a furry.”

“I’d say you should try democracy but the results where I come from are very mixed.”

“Life isn’t for surviving, Wexler. Life is for living.”

“Yeah, but you know what he’s like. Give him something new and he’s a kid at Christmas.” “What's Christmas?” “It’s a religious holiday that we appropriated to stimulate the economy once a year,” Jason said.

True enough

“How are you not over that when I am? Also, if you break up when you’re nineteen, it wasn’t the love of your life. It was the love of your adolescence.”

“It just seems like a waste of potential,” Clive said. “Before I came here,” Jason said, “wasting my potential was kind of my thing.”

“I’m more comfortable claiming unearned glory than getting the real thing,”

My thoughts too.

“That’s an unhelpfully good argument,”