It’s hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you’re accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.
Revenge is simply justice with teeth.
Books can be terrible snobs.
I didn’t know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It’s like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.
Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don’t agree with, for causes they don’t believe in. They live lives that don’t matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn’t flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn’t win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that’s all any man can ask.
We are in the dark places of the earth,” said Madman. “Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.
Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.
I am not weird!” I said. “I’m just differently normal.
They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.
The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.
This is Nightside,” said Deadboy. “We do ten impossible things before breakfast, just fora cheap thrill. Abandon all taboos, ye who enter here.
There’ll always be small, bitter people ready to follow some charismatic leader who promises them peace and happiness through justified violence and the killing of scapegoats.
Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.
To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you’re hurting.
Polar bears always raise one arm across their face because they’re pretending to be Batman. Great fans of Adam West, the polar bears.
Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don’t care anymore.
And... by the pricking of my thumbs, something morally ambiguous this way comes.
Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.