Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”
― Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim

“Here's to pornography, whiskey, long walks, and good books. Make sure you get plenty of all four.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.”
― Christopher Buehlman

“Evil is evil, Stregobor,” said the witcher seriously as he got up. “Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit. I haven't done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 05

“My safe word is, "Harder. Daddy.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

“The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“When you see the Crooked Warden," said Locke, twisting something in his hands, "tell him that Locke Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.”
― Scott Lynch

“The suffering of others is easy enough to endure when it happens in the rearview mirror.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.”
― Ryohgo Narita, バッカーノ！1933 ＜下＞ THE SLASH 〜チノアメハ、ハレ〜

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

“Thanks, but sometimes I think my sins are the only thing holding me together”
― Richard Kadrey, The Kill Society

“Crooked Warden,” said Locke, “men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can’t, let it be quick and painless.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend."

"Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“ I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."

"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that’s the definition of 'family' right there.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“I hope a shark tries to suck your cock!”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Congratulations! We’re reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” Chinese Proverb”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“As Chains had once said, feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“If only this city’s entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies