Mike > Mike's Quotes

“I ask you, doctor, what is there in the world more selfish than a baby? Nothing!

-The Small Assassin”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“When I was a boy I had a favorite fantasy. It wasn't about sex - I was eight or nine and the world was an infinite green field; I had no inkling of the deep precipice of puberty that yawned ahead. My fantasy was of a world without people.”
― Adrian J. Walker, The End of the World Running Club

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Fuck children for being creepy.”
― Tade Thompson, The Murders of Molly Southbourne

“...he decided to go back to sleep, wondering if it was possible to set his alarm clock to wake him up when everyone he knew was dead.”
― Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident

“You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something.”
― Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident

“He had changed. And not for the good. He was using strong language - filthy in her estimation - and had become totally immersed in the restoration of the motorcycle.”
― John Tigges, As Evil Does

“His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.”
― Stephen King, Christine

“That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Oh, and by the way... there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“These same people who tell us we must defend the lives of the unborn-they are the same people who seem not so interested in defending anyone but themselves after the accident of birth is complete! These same people who profess their love of the unborn's soul-they don't care to make much of a contribution to the poor, they don't care to offer much assistance to the unwanted or the oppressed! How do they justify such a concern for the fetus and such a lack of concern for unwanted and abused children? They condemn others for the accident of conception; they condemn the poor-as if the poor can help being poor. One way the poor could help themselves would be to be in control of the size of their families. I thought that freedom of choice was obviously democratic-was obviously American!”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“I still get that today: "I used to listen to you guys in high school." What do you mean used to? "Oh you know man, you fucking get older." No, I don't know, because I'm going to go home and put on Ride The Lightning right now. I'm going to get online and play poker and listen to Exodus or Pantera. So I don't understand what you're talking about. I'm older than you and I don't get it, dude. You don't grow out of it. That's bullshit to me. - Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian”
― Martin Popoff, Tornado Of Souls: Thrash's Titanic Clash

“Being a teenager isn't a number, " Maryellen said. "It's the age when you stop liking them.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“When you traveled as much as I have, seen and done things that I’ve done, you learn that under the skin we’re all meat. It just comes in different flavors.”
― Wile E. Young, The Magpie Coffin

“Being a billionaire is not a success, it's a massive moral failure.”
― Alan Baxter, Ghost Recall

“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“When you're a kid, facts don't matter. It's how hard you believe. How much you wish.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“I love a good story about everyone dying.”
― Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered

“I'm sitting here thankful that I met her, but I know that today she'll leave and I'll be here and that'll be it. But just like with Dad, I try and focus on the good memories and keep the gratitude rather than mourn the loss.”
― Chad Lutzke, Of Foster Homes and Flies

“She was maybe fifty, mouse-brown hair, pretty once was my first thought, then I realized she was still pretty. I had just seen such ugly things that this cold loft with its naked brick and bare lightbulbs and a mattress on the floor with a pile of books for a nightstand was beautiful, and she was beautiful for making it that way and keeping it as nice as she could and for not having the heart to throw away the Gerber daisy wilting, already dropping petals from its place in the Coke bottle on the counter by the stove. And she was beautiful for wearing a raincoat with a sweater under it because that was all she had.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead

“We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row