Vera > Vera's Quotes

“Tell me one last thing before we part, Nix Uotan. What was Superman's wish on the Miracle Machine?

He's Superman. He wished only the best for all of us. He wished for a happy ending.”
― Grant Morrison, Final Crisis

“We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“This safety from harm might cause the imaginative experience of reading a book to be judged inferior to real experience. But that is not the case. Making contact with memes, in the forms of books or movies or other media, provides knowledge and wisdom necessary for going out into the real world; they are legitimate experiences all the same.”
― Hideo Kojima, The Creative Gene: How books, movies, and music inspired the creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid

“A dream is something you see only once, not something that can continue.”
― Kinoko Nasu, Garden of Avalon

“If you think you've got nothing else left, then all you got is you. It'd be a big mistake to throw yourself away without good reason.”
― Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 中

“One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

“For people like us, home doesn't exist.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Sho ga nai. Sho ga nai. That’s all I ever hear.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Nobody [...] has a perfect personality. Everyone has a good side and a side that's not so good. [...] What's good about Americans, if I can generalize a little, is that they have a kind of openhearted innocence. And what's not so good is that they can't imagine any world outside the States, or any value system different from their own. The Japanese have a similar defect, but Americans are even worse about trying to force others to do whatever they themselves feel to be right.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.”
― Ryū Murakami, Audition: A Novel

“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it’s that patterns are repeated. My oppressions, by and large, are no worse than any of the others and, at least, I teach a new lesson.   —”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“While she opened her heart and let people in... That didn't mean her broken heart had been mended. Her wounds could heal in time. The scars, too, might fade, in time -- but that didn't erase that she'd borne them. Old wounds could still be fresh memories.”
― NisiOisiN, NISEMONOGATARI, Part 2: Fake Tale

“You selfishly decided to love them and selfishly decided to hate them. You selfishly put store in them and were selfishly disappointed by them. You selfishly felt enchanted and selfishly felt disillusioned.”
― NisiOisiN, NEKOMONOGATARI (BLACK): Cat Tale

“Considering the weight of all she'd overcome in the past few months, I felt pathetic for having just as many experiences, but not overcoming a thing. Right. I haven't overcome a thing.”
― NisiOisiN, 猫物語 (白) [Nekomonogatari]

“I think it's that you're too white - too pure and white. You must not understand how heartless it is to tell foolish people it's ok to be foolish, how cruel it is to tell crappy people it's ok to be crappy - and you don't even attempt to understand why seeing defects and calling them viruses is sheer malice. You don't have a clue about how irreversibly damaging it is to affirm something that's negative. You can't accept everything. If you did, no one would bother trying anymore. They'd lose the will to improve - but you aren't the least bit wary of foolishness or crappyness. You always run straight off to do the right think knowing that people are going to try to take advantage of you because you don't pay the fact any mind, and you try to act ethically even though you know it makes you stick out like a sore thumb. What could be more frightening than that? I'm impressed that you've managed to live your life on such a razor's edge and still be in sound health. I'll give you that. So in conclusion, you're not a good person, you're not a saint, you're not a holy mother - you're just dull when it comes to darkness. That just makes you... a failure as a creature.”
― NisiOisiN, 猫物語 (白) [Nekomonogatari]

“Not asking for help doesn't mean that you don't want to be saved. Similarly, not saying you like someone doesn't mean that you don't like her. Everybody has words they can't say rashly, Araragi-kun”
― NisiOisiN, 猫物語 (黒) [Nekomonogatari]

“Just like love isn't always requited, hating someone doesn't mean they'll hate you in turn. Sometimes, they won't even let you hate them in peace. People aren't comic book characters, you know. No human being is completely made of malice, nobody is evil through and through, no character looks the same from all angles, and hell, no character stays consistent at all times.”
― NisiOisiN, 花物語 [Hanamonogatari]

“I don't know everything, I just know what I know.”
― NisiOisiN, 化物語 (上) [Bakemonogatari]

“A child doesn't always turn out the way his parents want him to. Still, he's influenced by his parents' expectations...”
― NisiOisiN, NEKOMONOGATARI (BLACK): Cat Tale