“People die, it’s the one thing we’re universally good at as a species.”
“Some days you just have to say...”
“say what?”
“I have no flippin clue!”
“Just because you love someone and they love you doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous for you. It certainly doesn’t mean that they can’t hurt you. In fact it usually makes it much more likely.”
“But you forgot how stubborn I can be.”
“I was actually going to use another word but it starts with the same three letters.”
“Hope is a rare thing these days and unfortunately regret isn’t.”
“It started, as many things do with a broken chair that had simply had enough.”
“We don’t cry that our time is cut short, we bless all the time we had because tomorrow is a gift not a promise.”
“Time travel stole my butt!”
“I’m too tired. You know the kind of tired you get when you’ve seen too much unseeable, known too much unknowable and tried too hard for too long to change the unchangeable.”
“You’re just embarrassed that you were rescued by the girl that used to wipe your nose.”
“I retired because the world is far too good at getting into trouble and far too bad at showing any gratitude.”
“You know it’s very rude to ask a lady her age.”
“I know that but i didn’t ask a lady I asked you.”
“I’m trying to explain that the world is in grave danger.”
“Oh I got that part. What I fail to understand is why that’s in any way my responsibility to fix.”
“Why is my cabin on fire!”
“I’ve lived too long to believe in sanitized fairy tales but I know the bloody originals are usually true.”
“Please don’t trust any information you get from drunk skeletons.”
“We keep living because they can’t anymore.”
“That was rude.”
“Well I’m very old, I’m entitled.”
“You would never accept one of us giving in like this. So why are you so different? Why do you get to give up?”
“This isn’t giving up. This is me accepting that this is the end for me. After everything I’ve done and been through this is my final call and that isn’t a bad thing. Everything ends and sometimes it’s just time to go.”
“Does saving the world mean I have to put on shoes?”
“Oh I care. My life would be so much easier if I didn’t but I do. I care so much, far too much.”
“It’s days like this that really make me wish I could get drunk!”
“Unfortunately it’s all too common that what people don’t understand they want to set on fire.”
“I’m several hundred years old and my closest friends are a werewolf, a vampire and a living skeleton, nothing you are could surprise me.”
“Since life is hell than I guess the dead are the lucky ones.”
“I figured the best person to look after you would be your younger self.”
“That’s a terrible idea! I’ve been out to get myself for the past several hundred years!”
“I’ve forgotten more life than you have lived.”
“Of course there’s a bomb! There’s always a bomb!”
“If all of life is a show than I’d like to fire the director.”
“I’d say there is a glitch in the matrix but given our luck that’s too likely to be real.”
“Please can I have just one day when no one dies.”
“Why should I believe a word that comes out of your mouth?”
“Usually you shouldn’t but today I’m in a bit of a rush.”
“There is no such thing as heroes or villains. There’s just people. People who try to do the right thing, people who make mistakes, just people. That’s what makes it so hard.”
“Who drinks mouthwash?!”
“Don’t judge me!”
“Unfortunately the people who will hurt us rarely wear neon signs proclaiming that they will do wrong.”
“I’m not going to die today because I’m not giving you that satisfaction.”
“Oh I’m so glad that you made me leave my quiet cabin in the middle of nowhere for this!”
“Admit it you missed the action.”
“Even if I did do you really think I would tell you that?”
“Why does no one just call me up for a nice game of ultimate frisbee?”
“The smaller something is the more likely that it wants to kill you.”
“If you don’t come back with every single one of them in one piece I will make you fill out so much paperwork!”
“I would have looked out for them without the threat you know!”
“Just shake the flippin teddy bear’s paw!”
“I’m not ready for you to go!”
“We rarely feel we are. However you may not feel prepared to let go but you are ready to stand on your own.”
“See, back in civilization 5 minutes and already things are in the mud.”
“How do you keep going on?”
“Spite and a cursed pendant.”
“Please be serious.”
“Oh but I am, without those two things I would have died long ago.”
“Fine! Forget it! I’m sorry I asked!”
“Because the world doesn’t stop turning just because you want it to.”
“What?”
“I keep going on because as much as it hurts the world is still going on. The sun still rises and falls. The dishes still need to be washed and the trash needs to be taken out. People still get in and out of trouble. I still have responsibilities and there are still things I need to do.”
“So you just keep going despite the hurt?”
“Yes and eventually as you keep going on, you find the hurt to be more bearable and life is eventually liveable again instead of survivable.”
“Are you drunk?”
“Oh how I wish!”
“Sometimes the only way to survive this world is to be as cold and unforgiving as it is.”
“You’re our best hope.”
“And you don’t find that incredibly depressing?!”
“The key is not to try and change the whole world but to just change one world.”
“Aren’t people supposed to get more mature as they get older?”
“Yes but eventually you reach a point where you start going backwards.”
“You do know that having children as a backup in the event you screw up is really messed up!”
“Sometimes all you can do is save one starfish.”
“Sorry, the earth only swallows you up when it’s completely inconvenient.”
“Don’t worry you will eventually find someone who will cover you with a umbrella rather than watch you stand in the rain.”
“We Just traveled over a hundred years into the past in order to stop a plot to completely change the world as we know it and you aren’t even the least bit phased!?”
“Quite frankly this isn’t even the weirdest thing to happen to me today.”
“Sometimes people surprise you. It’s rare but it does happen.“
“Why are you soaking wet?”
“I fell out of a submarine.”
“How... never mind I don’t want to know.”
“It’s not my responsibility to make you comfortable with what I am.”
“I so regret teaching you to talk.”
“You didn’t teach me to talk.”
“Well then I regret that I wasn’t there to prevent it.”
“See all those little lies you tell to get you through they all start to pile up and eventually they completely smother the truth and you look in the mirror and don’t know the person looking back.”
“Whoever has been spreading these nasty rumours that I’m a good person really needs to stop.”
“You have to forgive yourself for surviving.”
“Have you?”
“That’s different.”
“So how was it growing up with dinosaurs?”
“It was great! Had a pet triceratops named Trixie!”
“You know the joke is no fun if you go along with it.”
“Who was joking?!”
“Living isn’t always easy. Sometimes it’s all difficult choices and burying people you care about.”
“You’re really not good at this encouraging thing you know.”
“Yeah but it’s the hard days that make the good ones special. Like walking out of here and going home to the people waiting for us.”
“Don’t play cards with him he cheats.”
“So do you!”
“How do you think I know that you cheat!”
“Do you trust me?”
“Can you give me any reasons that I should?”
“Not really. Except that I will do everything in my power to make sure you get through this at least partially intact.”
Imagine scrolling all the way through this, fascinated with every excerpt you read, waiting to get to the bottom so you can find out what on earth these are from so you can read/watch/listen to it as soon as possible only to find out it's an original post and your cousin just MADE IT ALL UP off the top of their head Raven I demand you finish this novel immediately
Now I feel bad! Several of these quotes will not be in the finished product.
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