Brian K. Vaughan > Quotes

“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid.

Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed.

Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep.

No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way.

They all end the same, too.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 2

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 2: No Future for You

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

“All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason.

Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 3

“Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.

I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 3

“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..."

"Everythings going to be alright.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride & Joy

“Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.

If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit... the least you can do is try to forgive them.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 4

“Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.”
― Brian K. Vaughan

“If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 7

“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 3

“You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

“Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“You know that old cliché about millions of deaths being a statistic while the loss of just one life is a tragedy? If that's true, what is it when you lose something that never even had the chance to be born? I've had lots of relationships in my time, platonic and otherwise, but the ones I think about most are those that never quite made it to term. The dashing first date who didn't call you back. The lady on the train you had that amazing conversation but never saw again. The cool neighbor kid you met the first time a week before he moved away. I guess I'm just haunted by all that potential energy. One moment, the universe presents you with this amazing opportunity for new possibilities...and then...”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 7

“There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 3

“Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits

“In the beginning, love is mostly about lying to each other. It's like that in the end, too.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 7

“Honey girl, I don't care what you do, as long as you're kind to everyone you meet."

"That's it?"

"That is the hardest part of being alive.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 9

“What kind of assholes bring a kid into worlds like these?”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“The more you care about someone, the more likely it is that your eventual parting of ways will be as sudden as it is baffling.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 7

“Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five

“My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.

Not everybody does.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

“We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

“I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”
― Brian K. Vaughan

“A child isn't a symbol, it's a child! It needs applesauce and, and, and playpens and an ass-load of other things we can't provide while we're on the goddamn lam!
Just to be clear. Your exact words to me were: "Please shoot it in my twat."
Yeah. I know.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 2