Scourged Quotes

“Pick a system—any system, legal or ecclesiastical—and you’ll start to wonder at how anyone could think it was fair. And then you’ll realize it was never meant to be fair but rather was intended to protect the interests of the powerful, and then you’re wading through a swamp of cynicism and your day’s ruined.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“The danger of growing old is growing comfortable and complacent at the same time. We should seek out the new and strange and applaud it and throw wild fecking parties whenever it walks into our lives.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“If you still want to tell him you’re sorry tomorrow or a hundred years from now, you’re going to get that chance. Because you’re going to be around. And maybe when you say it there will be forgiveness and it will be good. And if there isn’t forgiveness, then it will still be good, because you will have done what’s right: He deserves that apology. And in the meantime, there is beer and blood and the songs of bards, the great wide world to live in, and all the planes too.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“I wonder if they have a fancy law or name for the principle that Humans Ruin Everything for Profit. Maybe that's just capitalism”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“An owl hoots in the night, spooky as five hells and a jar of creamy peanut butter—that shite’s unnatural.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“The danger of growing old is growing comfortable and complacent at the same time. We should seek out the new and strange and applaud it and throw wild fecking parties whenever it walks into our lives. We should be building roads in and out of our own wee heads rather than erecting walls around them.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Ragnarok will begin in the next few days, and it won’t end well for anyone, because apocalypses tend not to include happy endings.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“I suppose what I’d really like to understand is our collective urge to focus on differences rather than similarities. I know our brains sort and categorize by default because that’s a survival mechanism—that mushroom’s good to eat, that one will kill you, that one will have you seeing wacky shit like mangoes and papayas complaining to pineapples that millennials are killing the fruit-juice industry. But despite this hardwiring, there has to be a way of thinking that will allow us to see nonlethal differences and celebrate them rather than point at them and judge them unworthy. For we seem to be ever running toward dystopias rather than the other way.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Pick a system—any system, legal or ecclesiastical—and you’ll start to wonder at how anyone could think it was fair. And then you’ll realize it was never meant to be fair but rather was intended to protect the interests of the powerful, and then you’re wading through a swamp of cynicism and your day’s ruined. What I like about being a Druid in service to Gaia is that Gaia doesn’t judge much at all—just the theft of her own life force to kill some other part of her. That’s why she prohibits us from using our powers to directly harm others. Otherwise, she’s going to let us sort out judgment for ourselves. Why should Gaia care precisely how people once behaved in Taiwan, or about the spiritual life of a mayfly in Connecticut, or about the deviant proclivities of an alley cat in Kathmandu? She will endure so long as the life upon her keeps reproducing. The violent tides of creatures eating, shitting, and fucking each other are what keep her alive. She’s not going to impose morality on that.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“A four-syllable name is impractical in battle, lad, and in most poetry too, if ye care about what the bards say. I’ll give ye only two syllables until ye actually save me bones from the Fae. You can pick. Cory, Ian, Andy, Gobshite, I don’t care. What’ll it be?” “Coriander, sir.” He shoots a pleading glance at Brighid, but she looks amused, and I laugh at him. “How about Fuckstick? Aye, that’ll do.” He doesn’t have a ward against me calling him the wrong name. I know it makes me a fecking arsehole, but he’s a far sight more smug than I can stand.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“You have some kind of food in a safe? Is that, uh... safe?
Yes. You may relax and depend on my methods of preservation.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“That light source is lava. A bit more dangerous than those fancy twisty light bulbs ye see these days”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“ he says as he drops it by me side again. I can't help but chuckle at that. "Ye know how to train humans already, don't ye?" ”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“I will tell you, even though you are young and unprepared: Men. are. Shit.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“A Buddhist wishes to point out that desires are what prevent people from achieving happiness, that materialism is the cause of discord.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“there has to be a way of thinking that will allow us to see nonlethal differences and celebrate them rather than point at them and judge them unworthy. For we seem to be ever running toward dystopias rather than the other way.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“That’s using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Eternity is a long time to spend doing nothing, after all.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“We should be building roads in and out of our own wee heads rather than erecting walls around them.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Because there’s a narcissist with a bunch of cronies who wants to burn down the whole world—your piece of it included—for no other reason than to stoke his own ego and profit besides.” “So, kinda like an American president, then.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Some while later Mekera found me, her face shining with joy. “Fiyori gave me her phone number! You know what this means?” “She likes you.” “No! I mean yes, but it means I need to get a phone!”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Well, that glass is going to hurt a fish or an anemone or something—” ”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Because there’s a narcissist with a bunch of cronies who wants to burn down the whole world—your piece of it included—for no other reason than to stoke his own ego and profit besides.” “So, kinda like an American president, then.” I gaped for a second as I tried to make the connection, then closed my mouth. “Yeah, kinda like that.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Huge part of the human economy is based on just in case, you know that? Insurance, condoms, diapers—it’s all just in case.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Look! I make no plans for the future but to go back to my forest home again.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“There is peace to be found in unspoiled land.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“Fragile egos are at the root of almost every conflict.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“You have an English word for this that escapes me now. This blending of faiths without conflict.” “Does Sifu Sun perhaps refer to religious syncretism?” “He does! I mean, I do. This might be strange to you from the West, where people think you must believe only one thing, but in the East we have no problem with this.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“feel the sadness peel away from our past and stand justified, knowing we”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged

“I almost ask her, “Short or tall?” but catch myself just in time. She’s an Irish goddess. If I give her a tiny glass of beer she will hurt me.”
― Kevin Hearne, Scourged