Jon. > Jon.'s Quotes

“Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter's Final Cut

“All the meat, he thought, and all it wants.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“normalcy is a social disease that, if left untreated, will most likely prove fatal.”
― Kevin Emery, Managing the Gift: Alternative Approaches to Attention Deficit Disorder

“We are  ‘medicating’ our future away because it is easier than stretching our comfort zones and learning how to nurture and develop that future.”
― Kevin Emery, Managing the Gift: Alternative Approaches to Attention Deficit Disorder

“I thought Sundays were supposed to be relaxing. As a male citizen of America, I’m entitled on Sundays to watch athletic men in tight uniforms ritualistically invade one another’s territory, and while they’re resting I get to be bombarded with commercials about trucks, pizza, beer, and financial services. That’s how it’s supposed to be; that’s the American dream.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“A man’s supposed to shit himself after he dies, son, not before.”
― Kevin Hearne, Tricked

“is the Way and the Truth.”
― Kevin Hearne, Tricked

“I could only strive to live so that my merit outweighed my discredit.”
― Kevin Hearne, Trapped

“Missing people in our lives are like wounds we reopen with thoughts.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hunted

“Pardon me, is this some kind of social experiment? You want me to get a hundred and forty-four Samoans and cram them into your cabin with a case of whiskey?”
― Kevin Hearne, Hunted

“I am the bringer of beef and the singer of sweet suppertime! Mine is the chicken and the gravy forever, nom nom!”
― Kevin Hearne, Shattered

“Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Whoa. He had ghouls on speed dial. My lawyer kicks so much ass.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“I'd have to ask Oberon to leave him a present on his front doorstep. He'd do it camouflaged too, so that even if Mr. Semerdjian was watching - and he probably would be - it would appear to be undeniable, physical evidence that, sometimes, shit just happens.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“Ye know what me Sean used to say, God rest his soul? He said, 'A friend will help ye move, Katie, but a really good friend will help ye move a body.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“Wooo!’ he said, slamming his shot glass down and coughing a bit. ‘That’s good stuff.’
I agreed heartily. ‘Shall we do another one?’ I asked.
‘Oh no,’ Jesus said quietly, his eyes growing round. ‘This is one of those situations where I have to stop and ask myself, what would I do?”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“I hurt in places I didn’t know were places.”
― Kevin Hearne, Shattered

“To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you’re hurting.”
― Simon R. Green, Casino Infernale

“Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.”
― Simon R. Green, Casino Infernale

“The Devil is by no means the worst that there is; I would rather have dealings with him than with many a human being. He honours his agreements much more promptly than many a swindler on Earth. To be true, when payment is due he comes on the dot; just as twelve strikes, fetches his soul and goes off home to Hell like a good Devil. He’s just a businessman as is right and proper. —-J.N. NESTROY, Hollenangst”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it's always hard to sleep.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“Discipline was necessary, but unquestioning obedience was a limiting thing, not a growing one.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Vector Prime