Scott Reintgen > Quotes

“You can’t expect to always feel like yourself. Just don’t lose who you are. Are you a bad person? Of course not. Does that mean you’ll always do the right thing? Of course not. No one’s perfect.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to be better than the other guy.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“You will be glad that you are not like them. You'll be glad that you showed mercy to those who did not deserve it. Watching you gives me hope. If we are to send representatives down to a new world, they should not be people without mercy. Babel chose you because you're poor. They thought you would be easy to manipulate. Twice you've proven them wrong. Twice you've set the sword aside when they've asked you to swing it. When you look back, it won't be mercy that you regret.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“Life’s thrown shots at me from every direction. Through all of it, I learned that distance is its own kind of armor.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“You're broken," she answers quietly. "The same kind of broken as me.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“It’s just one day, I remind myself. My fight is one of decades and generations. One bad day won’t stop me from rising up. I won’t quit, not today, not ever.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“Bright fires can still burn out, though.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“Pops has always told me ignorance is the most dangerous thing in the world. Fools, he used to say, will ignore whispers until they become shouts. And by the time a whisper is a shout, it's usually too late to make a difference.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“Be worthy. Not in their eyes, but in yours. Break the rules you need to, but never forget who you are and where you come from. When they knock you down, and they will, don’t you quit on me.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“It’s hard to tell the difference between rich and wrong.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“There’s not much left for me on Earth. I wanted to go as far away as possible. Where better than a new planet?” Her eyes squeeze shut for a second. “But they don’t tell you the pain comes with you. They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“We're not all good," I reply. "And they're not all bad."
He lifts his eyebrow. "I suppose that is the simplest truth of all.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Uprising

“Whenever I messed up - and man, I messed up all the time - he wouldn't even talk about the bad thing. He'd just tell me to be good. Like, hey, next time, be good.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“Every day I find myself living more and more in the gray. Nothing is easy. Nothing is black-and-white.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Uprising

“Food can give a man back his dignity. So can treating him with honor and respect. In the days to come, this will be our measure. Do we treat others with the dignity they deserve, regardless of where they come from?”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“What do you pray for?"

"Rest."

"Who do you pray to?"

"I don't know.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“They say pain is weakness leaving the body. If that’s true, each of us is becoming strong enough to carry worlds on our shoulders.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“I'm used to a world that sells me a lie and pretends it's the truth.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“You get in there and fight, Emmett. Be worthy. Not in their eyes, but in yours. Break the rules you need to, but never forget who you are and where you come from. When they knock you down, and they will, don’t you quit on me.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“Survivors. That's what we are now. And survivors have scars.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Uprising

“They’ll regret how sharp we are now that we’re aimed at them.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“I am more than what you will make of me.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“You're my queen down here," she admits. "But sleep is still my god.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“And just like that, I’m leaving Earth behind.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“History remembers the darkest moments.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Uprising

“Joy slips through our fingers because we're grasping and reaching for everything else. We're past being broken.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia

“She's beautiful the way a mountain is tall. I almost tell her before stopping. You don't need to tell a mountain it's tall. It already knows that.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“Mi abuelita always says you get one of two worlds. You either get the world you hope for or the world you fear.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Unleashed

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”
― Scott Reintgen, Saving Fable

“Death knocks at our door, and the sound forces all three of them to act on an unspoken promise. It is a contract each of them keeps in the quiet of their own hearts. All three would trade their lives for any of ours.”
― Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Uprising