Duane Swierczynski > Quotes

“I read like fiends smoke crack”
― Duane Swierczynski

“The world will run you down and slam a tire over your exploding skull and not even wonder what it had just hit.”
― Duane Swierczynski, Fun & Games

“Elder-care facility" was a euphemism. It was the waiting room in Hell, and its occupants were the damned and forsaken.”
― Duane Swierczynski, Batman: Murder at Wayne Manor: An Interactive Mystery

“Oh—and make sure you print," I [Bruce Wayne] added. "If I recall, your handwriting's atrocious."
He took a coaster from the table and scribbled a few notes on the back.
Roman Sionis: "The ladies don't complain when I give them my number."
Bruce Wayne: "Oh? They're old enough to read?”
― Duane Swierczynski, Batman: Murder at Wayne Manor: An Interactive Mystery

“The Other Him gave a creepy look that bordered on pity. Oh, you poor baby. Which was surreel. Was that what Hradie looked like when he was trying to look sympathetic? No wonder everybody seemed to want to punch him in the face.”
― Duane Swierczynski, Point & Shoot

“Sometimes I think life twists you back onto the same roads you traveled as a child to teach you a lesson. That lesson being: you didn't know #$%& then, and you don't know #$%& now.”
― Duane Swierczynski, X-Men Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #2

“This threw her personal deadline straight out the hospital room window. There was no way she’d be able to solve this murder between this very second and soon.”
― Duane Swierczynski, California Bear: A Novel

“pulped books. That was intended to explain the screaming. Machines”
― Duane Swierczynski, The Blonde

“I feel bad for you, Nathan. This is some world you'll be raising her in. A world where a few rich sons of bitches take whatever they want, and kill whoever gets in the way.”
― Duane Swierczynski, Cable (2008-2010) #5

“The path down into the bowels of the hospital felt like a descent into visitors’ parking at Dante’s Inferno.”
― Duane Swierczynski, California Bear: A Novel

“Zach’s Fanfare #2” (MFSB)* “Comeback Kid” (Sleigh Bells) “Monkey Gone to Heaven” (The Pixies) “Spaceman” (Harry Nilsson) “Going Down” (Freddie King) “I’m Bad” (Rocket to Memphis) “Pumped Up Kicks” (Foster the People) “Nobody Does It Better” (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes) “Skull & Crossbones” (Sparkle Moore & Dan Belloc and His Orchestra) “Switchblade Smiles” (Kasabian) “I Wanna Destroy You” (The Soft Boys) “Drain You” (Foxy Shazam) “T.O.R.N.A.D.O.” (The Go! Team) “Woman of Mass Destruction” (The Woolly Bandits) “Tough Lover” (Nick Curran and the Lowlifes) “(I’m Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tricia Toyota” (The Dickies) “Apache” (The Sugarhill Gang) “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (Metallica) “We All Go Back to Where We Belong” (R.E.M.) “Change Reaction” (David Uosikkinen) “Satellite” (The Hooters) “Fanfare for Rocky” (Bill Conti)*”
― Duane Swierczynski, Point & Shoot

“Life is full of tragedies and death. You learn how to deal with those. You learn to cope. But it's impossible to do the same when all you have are questions. They gnaw at you. Dig down deep inside you. And there's only one thing that can keep it from overwhelming you. Faith.”
― Duane Swierczynski, Cable #6

“Jack knew the truth, but it wasn’t worth explaining. Let her have that one. “What do you want me to do?” “I don’t know, Jack. You’re a criminal. Go out and do something criminal to make money.”
― Duane Swierczynski, California Bear: A Novel