Charlie Human > Quotes

“The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“In the end, we’re all just victims of our perceptions.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“Shiver me clitoris, that's an evil vessel,' Severance says.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“I grin back and breathe in the sweet smell of sweat, whiteboard marker and fear. The smells of high school.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“There are questions that run through your head when you find out that you’re a serial killer.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“Even having saved the world doesn't make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it's something you get habituated to; each new world-saving moment has to be bigger and better than the last to give you that same dopamine and serotonin kick. Maybe heroes are just junkies.”
― Charlie Human, Kill Baxter

“The world is totally screwed. I may have saved it, but nobody is going to thank me or reward me for that. I thought I'd feel some sense of satisfaction that I'd done the right thing. But I don't really. Being a hero is pretty damn stupid.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“I have seen things. I saw the great Mantis God of Africa fighting a creature from the primordial depths, a billion-year war until finally the Mantis threw the writhing creature from the heavenly sky into the deepest pit. I’ve seen the past through the lens of the Eye and it wasn’t in tasteful sepia. It was etched in blood and death and filtered through a veil of tears.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“There’s only one person in Cape Town who deals with finding the weird,’ he says. ‘You need to see Jackie Ronin.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“The sky is almost the exact grey of the diseased lung of a two-packs-a-day smoker.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“And me? Well, I don’t aspire to be king. That’s just like being a highly paid pawn. I’m a bishop, a vizier. I’m always behind the scenes pulling the strings.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now