Favorite Quotes

[Feles]

"Prepare for unforeseen consequences." ~ Gman

"We have decided to convey you somewhere you can do no possible harm... and where no harm can come to you. I'm sure you can imagine there are worse alternatives..." ~ Gman

"Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you... if and when your time comes round again. I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Dr. Freeman. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of... well... I'm really not at liberty to say. In the meantime... this is where I get off." ~ Gman

"Tell me, Dr. Freeman, if you can. You have destroyed so much. What is it, exactly, that you have created? Can you name even one thing? I thought not." ~ Breen

"I'd like to take a moment to address you directly, Dr. Freeman. Yes. I'm talking to you, the so-called One Free Man. I have a question for you. How could you have thrown it all away? It staggers the mind. A man of science, with the ability to sway reactionary and fearful minds toward the truth, choosing instead to embark on a path of ignorance and decay. Make no mistake, Dr. Freeman. This is not a scientific revolution you have sparked... this is death and finality. You have plunged humanity into freefall. Even if you offered your surrender now, I cannot guarantee that our benefactors would accept it. At the moment, I fear they have begun to look upon even me with suspicion. So much for serving as humanity's representative. Help me win back their trust, Dr. Freeman. Surrender while you still can. Help ensure that humanity's trust in you is not misguided. Do what is right, Dr. Freeman. Serve mankind." ~ Breen

"Well, Gordon, I see your HEV Suit still fits you like a glove. At least, the glove parts do." ~ Kliener

"Farewell, Brother! I fear I deliver you to a darker place. May the Light of Lights illuminate your path." ~ Father Grigori

Griggs: "I got... ten!"
Sheckley: "Yeah? We ALL got ten, there's hundreds of 'em!"

"Sometimes I dream about cheese." ~ Citizen

All courtesy of Half-Life 2 and it's episodes

[Skyblade]

"If you get it, yay. If you don't, it's okay."

- my counselor

[Jetthebinturong]

"My apartment doesn't have a doorbell. Why would an omniscient fellow need to be alerted to the presence of a visitor? I know he will be right on time. Which is to say, early. And if I did have a doorbell, you would have just witnessed it ring.
He is already here.
My door is not fitted with a peephole either. Those without eyes or without limits to their knowledge have no need for peeping, and I am without either. I have never once peeped at or through something, and I doubt I ever will.
Apertures built into physical surfaces to reveal what's hidden behind them are for those with particular handicaps. They are for those lacking advanced vision to render the opaque permeable to light, or those lacking advanced knowledge to render the concealed information irrelevant, or both. They are for people who I call suckers."
~ Doc Scratch, Homestuck

"I am my master's weapon. His soldier in a war of one bullet fired. But when that bullet clears the barrel, it won't be my finger on the trigger. I'm a facilitator, not an assassin."
~ Doc Scratch, Homestuck

"When I am finished with this minor interruption, we will resume our gentlemanly negotiation. I will proceed to beat you severely until you agree to do what I ask. I trust you won't take it personally."
~ Doc Scratch, Homestuck

Scratch is a magnificent villain.

[Delthion]

"He was eminent when my eminence was only imminent."

~Niles Crane

[Søren]

"Why is he running? He didn't do anything wrong." "Because we have to chase him. Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now, so we'll hunt him. Because he can take it, because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a Dark Knight."
-Jim Gordon and his son, The Dark Knight

[Skyblade]

I know it's in my signature, but it's too awesome to not be posted:

"Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day."
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

[Dotti Dillworthy]

"Nowhere does time 'fly' so fast compared to daily experience as when sitting and drinking and conversing with dear friends in an inn."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

[Aimless Gallivanter]

We are reading the story of our lives,
as though we were in it,
as though we had written it.
   poem by Mark Strand

[Skyblade]

"Nothing changes unless you do."
- my counselor

Truth. Far easier said than done, though.

[Feles]

"We've all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren't afraid control life itself." - Richard Ramirez
"I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing." - H.H. Holmes
"I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost." - Albert Fish

[Dotti Dillworthy]

"A little mystery is good for the soul." ~ Nicholas Sparks, (Dear John)

"You can hide buried treasure or a winning poker hand, but you can't hide the bloom of first love." ~ David H. Goodman + Jerome Schwartz (Captain Hook: Once Upon A Time: The Broken Kingdom)

[Skyblade]

"Don't wait for the perfect moment; take the moment and make it perfect."

- Zoey Sayward

[Jukka the Sling]

I'm currently reading the Maze Runner trilogy (already in The Scorch Trials) and loving it.  Here's something I found kinda funny from the first book:

Maze Runner quote

"Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.

"Go ahead," Newt replied.

Minho nodded and faced the crowd.  "Be careful," he said dryly.  "Don't die."

Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.

"Great.  We're all bloody inspired," Newt answered, then pointed over his shoulder, toward the Maze.

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And from The Scorch Trials:

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[while covering up with sheets to go out into the burning-hot outdoors]

He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl.  "How do I look?"

"Like the ugliest shanky girl I've ever seen," Minho responded.  "You better thank the gods above you were born a dude."

"Thanks."

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And another.

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[after seeing some weird girl standing by a hut in the distance in the desert one night, with them wondering if she was part of a group of girls they'd heard about]

Then for some reason he clapped his hands once.  "Okay, then, who wants to go meet this nice young lady?"

How Minho could be so lighthearted at times like this just baffled Thomas.  "I'll do it," he said, way too loudly.  He didn't want to make it obvious that he hoped it was Teresa.

"I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said.  "Let's all go over there.  She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers."

"Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's attitude.

"Yeah.  Let's go."

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[Eulaliaaa!]

So I just saw Captain America Civil War today.... so good, I'm definitely seeing it again within the next week.

Civil War

"I believe this is yours, Captain America!"
-Antman

"Can you move your seat up?"
"... No."
-Bucky to Falcon

"So I ask you as a king, and a warrior.... how long do you think you can protect your friend from me?"
-Black Panther to Cap

"Have you ever been to Germany?"
"No."
"Well you're gonna love it."
"What? I can't go."
"Why?"
"Because I have homework!"
".... I'm gonna pretend like you didn't just say that."
- Iron Man and Spiderman

*Antman turns giant and grabs War Machine* "Hahahahahaha!"

"Who is that talking?"
"... your conscience. We don't say a lot these days."
- Iron Man with Antman trying to tear his suit apart

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[Skyblade]

"Everything's a story. You are a story - I am a story."
- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett

(An inspirational novel by the way, despite its girly girl title )