He Who Fights with Monsters 5 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #5)

by Shirtaloon

The initial experience was like being in a kaleidoscope at a heavy metal concert held in a compost silo.

“People are idiots,” Yumi said. “They always choose a simple lie over a complex truth. Someone wanted this chaos so they can take control of the messaging by giving people a simple answer.”

They’ve been showing off a bunch of second-rate supermen but they’ve forgotten that people like Batman more. Asano is an Australian, multicultural, yobbo Bruce Wayne.”

“Sorry,” she said. “I thought I heard a bull defecating.”

“I’ve always found that trusting in people, rather than the groups they belong to, has always steered me right.

“Always either be modest or wildly self-aggrandising. Avoid anything in between, for there lies mediocrity.”

There is no line such a man will not cross, whatever he might tell you. Or tell himself.” “I don’t think he’s like that,” Itsuki said. “Look at the things he’s done. It’s clear how hard he’s trying to be a good man.” “Exactly,” Koya said. “Good men don’t have to try.”

The opposite of good is easy. That may have been the moral of the last Harry Potter book, now that I think about it. Anyway, people don’t do bad things because there is some antagonistic force driving them to sin. They do them because when the right thing is hard, making little compromises doesn’t seem so bad. A shortcut here, a little selfishness when no one will ever know. Every step makes the next one a little easier.”

“It is wise to focus on what you can do and not concern yourself with what you cannot.”

“Don’t you dare pity me. You made my life a triumph. My death too, for that matter. Don’t you ever try and take that from me by thinking you made my choices for me. I died a hero, Jason, not a victim. You don’t get to turn me into one inside your head.”

Don’t take stupid chances that cost you everything and get you nothing.”

People will always ignore the greater dangers in pursuit of momentary concerns.