Barry > Barry's Quotes

“We are born an empty bookshelf.
Life is what we fill it with.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“I'm getting pretty tired of unicorns. Could we try to get a regular horse around here for once?”
― Margaret Stohl, Forever Red

“Destiny is a funny thing. Once I thought I was destined to become Emperor of Greenland, sole monarch over its 52,000 inhabitants. Then I thought I was destined to build a Polynesian longship in my garage. I was wrong then, but I've got it now. I'm the destined protector of this place. I'm this city's superhero.”
― Ben Edlund, The Tick Omnibus Vol. 1: Sunday Through Wednesday

“We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book Three

“Carpe coffeum”
― Dean Koontz, Seize the Night

“The cataract of grief is a longer drop than Niagara, and I guess I've not reached the river of acceptance at the bottom.”
― Dean Koontz, Seize the Night

“As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I want you all to know,” Skulduggery said, “that we are the first line of defence. In fact, we’re practically the only line of defence. If we fail, there won’t be a whole lot anyone else will be able to do. What I’m trying to say is that failure at this point isn’t really the smart move to make. We are not to fail, do I make myself absolutely clear? Failure is bad, it won’t help us in the short term and certainly won’t do us any favours in the long run, and I think I’ve lost track of this speech, and I’m not too sure where it’s headed. But I know where it started and that’s what you’ve got to keep in mind. Where’s my hat?”
― Derek Landy, Playing with Fire

“Looking back on one’s life, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Night Eternal

“The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Burning Land

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Which is more important' asked Big Panda,
'the journey or the destination?'
'The company' said Tiny Dragon.”
― James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon

“What if I meet people who don't like me or the things I do? asked Tiny Dragon.

'You must walk your own path,' said Big Panda.
'Better loose them than loose yourself.”
― James Norbury, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon (Hardcover)

“Whether people praise you or criticize you, try to accept it gracefully. It takes all kinds of conditions to create a strong tree.”
― James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon

“I give up" said Tiny Dragon.

"That's OK," said Big Panda. "We'll try again tomorrow.”
― James Norbury, Big Panda & Tiny Dragon

“At night the pigeons lose their feathers and become rats !”
― Gail Simone, Plastic Man (2018) #2