Rick Remender > Quotes

“Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain.

Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“... the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.

She told me that everyone has let her down...

... except for me.

And all I could think was, "give me time.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 2: Kids of the Black Hole

“But I've always been terrified of the future. Even back then, I couldn't stop thinking about what everyone else ignored so skillfully. We're all going to die. And bad things are waiting around every corner. But in the end...all of that anxiety...all that worrying about the future...it didn't change anything.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“Life is a series of unique opportunities.

It's our job to find the happiness in each one.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.”
― Rick Remender , Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.”
― Rick Remender, Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 4: The Dark Angel Saga, Book 2

“Betsy: You gentlemen stand around and look tough while I do an astral reconnaissance.
Fantomex: I confess to feeling inferior in the company of such a gifted telepath. But for you, Warren, to be so.. dependent. It must be emasculating.
Warren: Oh yeah, it's a real hardship. Worst part is all the sex it leads to. Terrible stuff to endure.”
― Rick Remender, Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 2: Deathlok Nation

“Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much.”
― Rick Remender, Black Science, Vol. 3: Vanishing Point

“It's me. My anxiety. I do this thing after I'm around people where I obsessively overanalyze every interaction to see where I went wrong or who I offended.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“It is all too easy to give ourselves over to the traumas of the past -- allowing pain to define us. There is a medicine for that -- hope and perseverance. Light brings light. And no matter what we face there is one thing we can control: our outlook. It's not about ignoring the pain, or mindlessly believing things will simply be better -- it's about finding the joy in participating. And when the weight of the past pulls us low we must find the strength to release it ... and finally give ourselves permission to start over.”
― Rick Remender, Low, Vol. 2: Before the Dawn Burns Us

“Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough . . . maybe something good finally happens.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

“Betsy: "You bring nothing but trouble!"
Fantomex: "Forgive me if this has inconvenienced your plans for afternoon tea, Miss Braddock. Cyborgs killed my mother and stole from me.”
― Rick Remender, Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 2: Deathlok Nation

“Samurai are born to die.

Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

“In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which.
"By that logic you should settle for me."
"Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth

“If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth.
Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in.
Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts.
No one is a bad person in his or her own mind.
We are all noble protagonists.”
― Rick Remender, Black Science, Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere

“I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us

“Sometimes, remembering a moment in your life can physically hurt as you relive everything that mattered to you then, and realize how far gone it is now.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 2: Kids of the Black Hole

“All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?!

You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!

Your judgement is shit!

Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

“Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door.”
― Rick Remender, Black Science #6

“Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.

In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden

“It takes time to see anyone's real damage.”
― Rick Remender

“Rush life like a yellow light.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 3: The Snake Pit

“People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.”
― Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us

“...the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.

She told me everyone has let her down...

...except for me.

And all I could think was, "give me time.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class #10

“HUGS, another one of the many benefits of not being a nihilistic, psychopathic automaton.”
― Rick Remender (Author)

“The difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 2: Kids of the Black Hole

“I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.”
― Rick Remender

“She's out of my league, but if she has herpes...

That puts us in the same league!

The herpes league!”
― Rick Remender, Deadly Class, Volume 3: The Snake Pit

“Hope is a lie that becomes true”
― Rick Remender, Low, Vol. 4: Outer Aspects of Inner Attitudes