Jeff Lemire > Quotes

“There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation...”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

“They say the city gets in your blood, but that's crap. The city doesn't become part of you... you become part of it. It soaks you up bit by bit, year after year. Until you're just a tiny part of its system... Pumping through its veins, lost in its arteries.”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

“Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him.
I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.”
― Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods

“It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses.”
― Jeff Lemire, The Underwater Welder

“It’s hard to look back on your life and point to one event–one moment–that changed everything and set you on the path that made you…you. That only happens in movies. Most people’s lives are a series of millions of messy little moments strung together adding up to a messy little life. But sometimes, you can look back and see a pattern forming… see a clear path cutting through the mess.
It makes you wonder, do we even have a choice at all? Or was that path going to form no matter what we did?
Yeah, it’s easy to look back and see the pattern. It’s easy to second-guess every decision you made and figure out what you would’ve done differently. But none of that much matters now. It’s all in the past. Can’t waste time thinking about who i was, who i could’ve been. All that matters now is who i am.”
― Jeff Lemire, All-New Hawkeye (2015) #5

“The waves are high and the sunset's red.
So now it's time to go to bed.
The tide is up and the wind does rip.
But this old ship'll never tip.
We're far at sea, days from land.
But if you're scared just take my hand.
Just hold on tight Boy-o-mine.
In my arms you'll be just fine.
The moon is full and the sea is deep.
And we rock and rock and rock to sleep.”
― Jeff Lemire, The Underwater Welder

“But before you can become something new, you must remember who you have already been...”
― Jeff Lemire, Moon Knight, Vol. 1: Lunatic

“The scrape of the skates on the ice. The smell of musty old equipment. The black puck stains on the boards. To the uninitiated they're nothing, but to a hockey player they're home.”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

“Truth is, I've been scared to leave this place. Scared of what I'd find if I did. Or maybe I was scared of what I wouldn't find. Should have just took off and never looked back.”
― Jeff Lemire, The Underwater Welder

“People say you can always count on family. But I think that's a lie. I'm starting to think that the only one we can really count on is ourselves. Maybe in the end, we're all on our own.”
― Jeff Lemire, Hawkeye, Volume 6: Hawkeyes

“Have you read this, Tim? It's my favorite book. Trinket Tocket and his Tin Rocket!'
'I am not familiar with it, Andy. But I can easily access the data network and download all the volumes if you'd like?'
'Nah. My mom still gets them for me in hard copy. I love reading them like this. The drawings look better.”
― Jeff Lemire, Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars

“There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...

Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us.

Number four: if I ever see anyone other than my dad, I run, and keep running.

Number three: always say my prayers, so as God don't get mad at me and decide to come make me sick too.

Numer two: never forget to pray for my momma, 'cause she was the best and prettiest lady God ever made.

Number one: never, ever leave the woods.”
― Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods

“Politics often trump common sense.”
― Jeff Lemire, Thanos, Vol. 1: Thanos Returns

“And this is the result. Millions of small sins, billions of tiny evils--twisting, twining, groping, consuming...Till they become a great serpent...a blight on humanity...that rises from the collective unconscious towering over the world...Blocking out the light. It is so convenient to blame it all on some sneering, arrogant Satan--sitting on a fiery throne, plotting to corrupt our souls. But if there is a devil--he's just another projection of our own sins.”
― Jeff Lemire

“-And who the hell are you?
-I'm... I'm nobody.”
― Jeff Lemire, The Nobody

“The thaw came and the snow melted away and so did my dad. 'til there wasn't nothing left.”
― Jeff Lemire

“The game is like family... it won't let you go, no matter how long you've been away.”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

“İnsan bazen sevdikleri için bağrına taş basmalı, değil mi ? Ne de olsa aile bu demek.”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 3: The Country Nurse

“There are things that go deeper than the memory. Things that just can't be forgotten.”
― Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories

“This is so... weird. I've never seen a book on paper. Who do you like reading them like this? Feels so... fake.'
'I don't know. Mom used to read them to Andy and me before bed. I grew to enjoy it.”
― Jeff Lemire, Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon

“There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation”
― Jeff Lemire

“Repetition is a kind of death in itself.”
― Jeff Lemire, Mazebook

“I could always fight. It's the rest of it I ain't ever been no good at”
― Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth: The Deluxe Edition, Book One

“Daddy, you just get distracted if you look at the whole thing. All you need to do is look at what's right in front of you.”
― Jeff Lemire, Mazebook

“Sometimes the puzzles that look the hardest to solve are the simplest of all...”
― Jeff Lemire, Mazebook