Heroes Die Quotes

“A lie is like a pet- you have to take care of it, or it'll turn on you and bite you in the ass.”
― Matthew Stover, Heroes Die

“I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.”
― Matthew Stover, Heroes Die

“Okay, maybe I don't have to solve every problem with my fists...but every once in awhile, a situation arises that is substantially improved by the judicious application of force.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“Now that it’s too late, now that I lie here dying on this bloodstained sand, I finally get it.

I understand, now.

I understand. I know what he meant. My father told me that to know
the enemy is half the battle. I know you, now. That’s right.

It’s you.

All of you who sit in comfort and watch me die, who see the twitch of
my bowels through my own eyes: You are my enemy.

Corpses lie scattered around me, gleanings left in a wheat field by a careless reaper. Berne’s body cools beneath the bend of my back, and I can’t feel him anymore. The sky darkens over my head—but no, I think that’s my eyes; Pallas’ light seems to have faded.

Every drop of the blood that soaks into this sand stains my hands and the hands of the monsters that put me here.

That’s you, again.

It’s your money that supports me, and everyone like me; it’s your lust that we serve.

You could thumb your emergency cut-off, turn your eyes from the screen, walk out of the theatre, close the book . . .

But you don’t.

You are my accomplice, and my destroyer.

My nemesis.

My insatiable blood-crazed god.

Ah, ahhh, Christ . . . it hurts.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“never depend on the efforts of others to push back the darkness.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“Opposites attract, but similarities bind.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“And even life, even death: they have little meaning for me now. They are only outcomes, consequences, vague peripheries. The violence itself consumes me, even in anticipation. When I step out of the cover, stake my life and the lives of my friends on the gift of slaughter, the caustic tide of mayhem will wash over me with grace: saint touched by his god”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“There is a purity in violence, in the desperate struggle to pull life from death, that surpasses any philosopher's sere quest for truth.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“rolls out from under me, and I upend like Elmer Fudd.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“I jam the knife into his eye. Bone crackles and blood sprays. I use the knife to twist his face away from me: a bloodstain on this livery could be fatal, on my way out. He flops like a salmon that's found unexpected land beneath an upstream leap. This is only his body's last unconscious attempt to live; it goes hand-in-hand with the release of his bowels and bladder. He shits and pisses all over himself and his satin-weave sheets - another one of those primordial reflexes, a futile dodge to make his meat unappetizing to the predator.
Screw it. I'm not hungry anyway.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“It rolls out from under me, and I upend like Elmer Fudd.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“- Разумният човек се опитва да се приспособи към света. Неразумният - да приспособи света към себе си. Затова човешкият прогрес се дължи на неразумните.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“- Деликатността е за слабите. Това е тактика, която те използват, за да постигнат желанията си поради липса на сила.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“Тук го задържаха собственoтo му желание, надежда и мечти, а не ключалките на вратите.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die