C.T. Phipps > C.T.'s Quotes

“What IS it about this town? I never thought I’d long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy

“A spouse was the absolute best thing a supervillain could have. It was the superheroes who struck me as the perpetual bachelors. I mean, come on, the whole ‘it’s not you, it’s my enemies’ thing is so they can stay single and get sex from the people they rescue. I have it on good authority the Silver Lightning uses it all the time to pick up guys. Admittedly, the good authority was my brother’s old gang but if you couldn’t trust them then who could you trust?”
― C.T. Phipps

“I suppose he could be the mole,” Shannon said. “What with his being completely insane and all.”
― C.T. Phipps, Esoterrorism

“As the Dark Lord spoke when he saw the Archangel Michael descending upon him: We are in some serious shit.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy

“Hey, killing people doesn't count if they're bad! Hollywood taught us that.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy

“The situation has gone so far past the point of insanity it's come around and become mundane again.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy

“Prison... it changes you. I'm not the same man I was before going on the inside. I can't go back. I won't." "You were in prison less than twenty-minutes.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy

“Cloak, does God hate me?" I said. "It depends which god you mean. I've met several." "The Jewish One." "Yes.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy

“Evil is evil. Big. Small. Grand. Petty. Well-justified or just because. There’s no lesser or greater of it. Choosing between them does not make your soul any less blackened.”
― C.T. Phipps, Lucifer's Star

“If you can’t be with the side you want, work to fix the side you’re with.”
― C.T. Phipps, Lucifer's Star

“The Sword. Her name is Nightmare.”
A small shiver ran down Vall’s back, in the exact line where the blade now was. It was not a shiver of fear, but of understanding.
“And a nightmare, she shall be.”
― Holden R. Johnson, The Red Heir

“I must have encountered the Duke somewhere on the road because I was carrying a sack with me and his head was in it.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade

“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley

“Open up your chakra
Because once that’s happened there’s no going back
Once you start to see what is really happening
Who the enemy you should be attackin’ is
So READ, READ, READ!
Stuck on the block, READ, READ!
Sittin’ in the box, READ, READ!
Don’t let them say what you can achieve
Cos' when people are enslaved
One of the first things they do is stop them reading
Cos’ it is well understood that intelligent people will take their freedom
Cos’ if we knew our power we would understand that we can’t be held down
If we knew our power, we would not elevate not one of these clowns
If we knew our power, we wouldn’t get arrogant when we get two pennies
If we knew our power, we would see what everybody sees, that we’re rich already!”
― Akala

“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.
(from The General's Legacy)”
― Adrian G Hilder

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“I admit, this sector is full of assholes,” Judith muttered. “Not just this sector. I’ve been to the others. They’re all full of assholes. Every last one of them.”
― C.T. Phipps, Lucifer's Star

“The only reason people aren't all dragging vampires out into the sun or dousing us with gasoline like your group wants to do is because of a concentrated hundred-and-ten-year plan to make us palatable to mankind. From Bram Stoker to that Meyer woman, we have been subtly brainwashing humanity into believing our race could live in peace with yours.”
― C.T. Phipps, Straight Outta Fangton

“It's always Ragnarok. Regular mortals have the power to blow the world sky-high and all the major supernatural factions can do the same. The thing is, though, as long as people want to live then you're going to have people stepping in the way of those who want to do something to blow us up. That's the only way you can endure it.”
― C.T. Phipps, Esoterrorism

“Don't allow yourself to become the monster humans wish to make you. Don't live down to their expectations or try to absorb their morality. They're not worth it.”
― C.T. Phipps, Straight Outta Fangton

“But unfortunately, vampires lost some of their cultural panache, partly because the romantic vampire genre has portrayed so many bloodsuckers as merely harmlessly eccentric. This isn't to dis the romantic vampire—it's a trope for a reason—but the trope started to occupy the majority of headspace in fans’ minds. People forgot that vampires, as cool and sexy as they might sometimes be, are monsters.”
― C.T. Phipps