Comic Fiction Quotes

“Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.”
― Gerald Everett Jones, Rubber Babes: Further Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill

“He was quiet for a moment. “So, in this analogy, you’re Mary Jane?” “You got that right, Tiger.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough.”
― Alisa Dana Steinberg, Text Me, A Tale of Love and Technology

“Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sputnik corrected. “—is kind of like being declared King of Nerds.” “Co-king,” Sputnik asserted.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“Amazing? My heart fluttered. “But I don’t want Flash or Harry,” I murmured. “You want Spider-Man,” he finished for me, looking a little wistful. I shrugged. “And Peter Parker.” He looked at me, very seriously. “Then don’t settle,” he said.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“Heroism, as I have so often discovered, is mostly a matter of turning up in the wrong place with the wrong hat, and then bluffing until everyone applauds.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Mostly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“It is amazing how often one may be thought heroic simply by being discovered in the wreckage afterwards.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Secretly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“While my companion lost his heart, I nearly lost my hat — which, in my view, was the graver peril.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Romantically Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“A man does not ask for glory. He generally asks for a sandwich and is appalled by what follows.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Hopelessly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“It is one thing to scale the Himalayas for glory; quite another to do it for a flower with an unpronounceable Latin name.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Royally Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“Diplomacy is simply war conducted with fountain pens and better tailoring.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Varyingly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“Cabbages may be humble, but under sufficient velocity they are extremely persuasive.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Actually Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder

“If the movement has flourished, it is thanks to Baden-Powell’s vision, Dicky’s bandages, and my firm insistence on elevenses.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Scoutingly Heroic Adventures of Sir Dungchunder

“Superpowers are unnecessary when one has a booming voice, a fine moustache, and an endless supply of puddings.”
― A.R Greenhollow, The Super Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder