This Inevitable Ruin Quotes

“I don’t stick my butthole in everybody’s face when they’re trying to sit down and eat.” “Well, excuse me for showing affection. I mean really.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“When Big Things happen on such a large scale, it’s easy to forget sometimes that these Big Things are also happening to the little things in the world.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Be careful who you’re nice to. Because if you are nice to the wrong person, they’ll either take advantage of you, or worse, they might never leave.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Happy wife, happy life takes on a whole new meaning when your other half is an indescribable cosmic horror.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“She loved him. And because she loved him, she would protect him, even when he made mistakes.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“It takes a certain amount of desperation before people finally stop caring about their immediate futures and start to look at the long term.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Nothing is hopeless. Not until we're truly dead”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“You’re my best friend, Carl. I’ve been so lonely. When you didn’t show up at the Bahamas on the last floor, I thought...” He didn’t finish the sentence. He was letting out these huge, wet, snot-filled sobs.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Yo. Donut told me we sometimes get snacks,” Ferdinand said. He remained up on the counter. “I’m looking, Zev. But you know what I’m not seeing? Snacks.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“People sure like to make a big deal out of adopting pets. They “rescue” them before they spend the next 10 years exploiting the poor, oblivious animal to death on social media. They splatch a bumper sticker that reads “Who Rescued Who?” on their minivans while the poor dog spends 20 hours a day in a stinking crate.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“It’s okay to be a work in progress,” Donut said.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Chaos? It’s only been like 10 hours.” “Which is much too long to be living in filth, Carl. Do you know what comes with filth? Clutter. And with clutter comes squalor. Just because you now look like someone who’s required by law to knock on the neighbor’s door to tell them you’re moving in, it doesn’t mean you should be okay with squalor. Plus that disgusting pet of yours keeps eating everything he can find on the ground. He’s a terrible influence on Mongo.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Reward: You’ve received a cassette copy of Dio’s 1983 masterpiece debut, Holy Diver along with a Celestial Heavy Metal Box.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Do you know who Cousin Oliver is, Carl?” Donut demanded, watching the display. “Was he that one cat with the really weird eye?” “No, Carl. That was my sister-cousin, Ginger Snap, and we don’t talk about her. Cousin Oliver was from The Brady Bunch. This thing is like that. Cousin Oliver. Scrappy Doo. Guppy on iCarly. April on Gilmore Girls.” She spat out that last one. “All late series additions. All attempts to add something new and cute and exciting to a perfectly good cast that ended up making everything worse.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Blood was so much more red when it was spilled from someone you loved.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“BY THE WAY, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A BASS-HEAVY SONG, CARL. FEEL HOW THE GROUND SHAKES? IT’S DESIGNED TO UPSET OLD PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“These were the moments we couldn't take back. But did that truly mean there was nothing we could do to change our own fates?”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“I didn’t have a true reason to get to Donut at this point. We had a new plan, and by going up the tower, I was wasting time. The fight was below, not up.

But I had an overwhelming urge to get to her. We’d been separated for much too long, and it just wasn’t the same without her by my side. If this was where this was going to end, I couldn’t bear the thought of not having her with me.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“...but like with all things that were hard to look at, people clicked their tongues in sympathy and immediately looked away”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Don't shy from what you've become. Force them to look upon you. Force them to see what they wrought, what they forged in the fires of their own creation.
Let them know fear.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“People like you, they want meaning to their suffering. They want to know that what's happening to them is for some greater good. I'm here to tell you, no matter what they say, no matter what you might eventually hear, the crawl is absolutely unnecessary.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Yes, Carl,” the potion bottle said, his voice deep and demonic. “Drink me. Drink me deep. Put me inside of you.” “What the shit?” I asked as Donut hissed. “That’s how you know it’s a good potion,” Mordecai said, grinning.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’re going to lose more friends. We’re going to have to do some pretty horrible things just to survive. When I’d said that, this was what I’d been talking about. This moment that was coming in one hour and forty-five minutes. What gives me the right?”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“I shouldn’t have to think about killing outworlders? Why shouldn’t I? Have they stopped thinking about trying to kill me?”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“It was still dark and cloudy, and I could barely see anything, but a giant, quivering ball of rolling flesh with a god-sized dick schlopping out of it was pretty hard to miss.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“The Inevitable Ruin. That’s what their queen used to call this moment. The moment you realized there was no hope, nothing left to do, and all that was left was to die and reflect upon what you’ve already done while you waited. To ruminate on how you’ve helped the colony, and to beg forgiveness of God for not sacrificing enough.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Anyway, to understand why a perfectly normal person would want to slowly turn himself into a robot whose sole purpose is to invade planetary colonies, shoot innocent civilians, and spend all day believing he’s a fascist-fighting patriot of industrial capitalism, you have to first understand where these guys come from. Blah, blah, blah, tough childhood in the pollution-choked shadow of the behemoth, Reaver moons where most of the physical goods in the galaxy are manufactured. Blah, blah, drugs, street gangs, 80% taxes, boo-hoo, my mommy is a hooker, no way out, etc. You know the story.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Participation trophy, snowflakes, blah, blah, blah. God, I sound like an old dude about to ruin the day of a Cracker Barrel waitress.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“He screamed right in my damn face.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“Any plan, any attack, no matter how well-coordinated, no matter how well-executed always turns to absolute shit the moment someone drops a very big bomb in a very narrow room.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin