V. Moody > Quotes

“Quick sidebar: It may seem like I’m a sexist twat who only sees women in terms of their looks, but I don’t think I treat women like they’re inferior. I notice what I notice. I’m not going to pretend I’m some New Age moron who sees all life as part of the same beautiful tapestry. The first thing I noticed about Maurice was that he’s black — and that’s despite him wearing a Batman onesie. Does that make me racist? I think it means my eyes work. Feel free to judge me how you want.”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book One

“Stop buying clothes designed by men.” “And?” “That’s it. Everything would change. You know how they say dress for the job you want? Well, turns out most of you are applying for the position of underpaid bimbo. And we’re hiring.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“If you’re that concerned, cut off your arm and stick it in the oven at two hundred celsius. Cheap, nutritious and gluten-free. Self-sacrifice requires you to sacrifice yourself, not other people.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“People’s ability to convince themselves the shitty things they do aren’t as bad as the shitty things other people do is amazing.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Monsterland

“If you get a defective product, you blame the manufacturer. We all have mothers, and they’re our baseline for what women are. If we don’t treat you well, you might want to reconsider your approach to our first ten years in your care.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“They came back with their arms full of hopelessly impractical stuff. Lace dresses, weird hats, silk scarves and all sorts of nasty cheap jewellry. They were panting, their faces were red and their mouths were fixed in huge grins. For the first time ever, I’d managed to make two women orgasm at the same time.”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book Two

“When it comes to the age-old question of seeing the glass half-empty or half-full, I like to see the glass as easily broken and the jagged shards used to slice your neck open.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Gorgoth

“People who live within a certain culture will defend it to the end, no matter how out of touch their beliefs. It forms their identity, and letting go of even the smallest part, no matter how obvious it is the right thing to do, can take hundreds of years. Just look at chopsticks.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Monsterland

“Those of us not interested in destroying all who stand in our way have limited options. Fight the good fight, knowing you’re going to lose to cheaters. Cheat, and level the playing field. Run away. Running away only works if they don’t come after you. Sometimes they don’t.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“Which I was.”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book One

“I’d say the general atmosphere was one of ‘Forget the off button, take out her batteries!”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book Three

“Imagine how much of a better read the Bible would be if it was subtitled: People Are Unbelievable Idiots.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Gorgoth

“don’t bring a lobster to a shark fight.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Nekromel

“it’s what I’ve always insisted was my goal — to be on my own — but even the lucky guy who finds out he was the only choirboy in the choir not to be sexually abused by the priest will wonder, “Was there something wrong with me?” It’s human”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Monsterland

“the enemy of my enemy is just another psycho I have to watch out for.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“When the best way to bugger up your plans is to leave you to it, says a lot”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“The only point of war is to win. You can sign up to all the conventions you want, when shit gets real, no one’s going to play by the rules. Lawyers will find ways to turn war crimes into semantics, but we all know napalm is fucking napalm.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“are you just another bastard willing to leave two girls alone in this FUCKING SHITHOLE!”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book One

“Is it considered cheating if you fuck the same girl over and over in different parallel dimensions, or is it incredibly romantic? Only Stephen Hawking knows for sure, I guess.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Nekromel

“It was such a sorrowful thought he couldn’t bear to think it. He got to his feet and walked away. He had to go to the library and study. There were exams to prepare for. He had no time to waste on distractions, not if he intended to come first. And he did. He intended to rise so far above them all, he would never be within their reach. Any of them.”
― V. Moody

“Would you like to hear a joke, Doctor?” “Okay.” “Why did the chicken cross the road?” “I don’t know, Nigel, why?” “I don’t know either, Doctor. I have incomplete data. How was that, Doctor? Am I getting better?” “To tell you the truth, Nigel, I can’t really tell.”
― V. Moody, Bitter: Book Two

“Marv still looked at me like I had just taken a shit in my own hand and started eating it.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“The National Alliance.”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book One

“Gamers loved to play games that were incredibly hard, and they also loved to cheat.”
― V. Moody, Bitter: Book One

“There was one time Marisa had asked Dad what he would do in the event of a zombie apocalypse, and he not only had a list of things he rattled off without hesitation, he also went and got a notebook he’d filled with plans and places to go with good resources, which he very happily showed her with full commentary.”
― V. Moody, Bitter: Book Three

“Women are 52% of the population, in a democracy. If you got your shit together, you could make any law, get whoever you wanted in office, force reforms in any area of life you chose.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“There’s no such thing as no risk. There’s always a risk. If you can’t think of any, that means it’s surprise risk, the riskiest risk of all.”
― V. Moody, How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis: Book Three

“Whenever someone comes along and threatens the status quo — civil rights, national independence, popular uprising — bang! Bullet in the head. When was the last time someone tried to take out a leading figure in the women’s movement?”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“I want better treatment because I’m not a whore is a weak argument. What you should say is, I want better treatment or the price of blowjobs is double.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Requbar

“What people ‘think’ is the least reliable thing about them. What they ‘say’ is only slightly more reliable. And what they ‘do’ is the only thing that really matters.”
― V. Moody, Welcome to Nekromel