Quotes from Rick Remender

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.

Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for.

the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet. She told me that everyone has let her down... ... except for me. And all I could think was, give me time.

But I've always been terrified of the future. Even back then, I couldn't stop thinking about what everyone else ignored so skillfully. We're all going to die. And bad things are waiting around every corner. But in the end...all of that anxiety...all that worrying about the future...it didn't change anything.

Life is a series of unique opportunities. It's our job to find the happiness in each one.

Betsy: Do you have daddy issues, Warren? Warren: Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

Betsy: You gentlemen stand around and look tough while I do an astral reconnaissance. Fantomex: I confess to feeling inferior in the company of such a gifted telepath. But for you, Warren, to be so.. dependent. It must be emasculating. Warren: Oh yeah, it's a real hardship. Worst part is all the sex it leads to. Terrible stuff to endure.

Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much.

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.

Betsy: You bring nothing but trouble! Fantomex: Forgive me if this has inconvenienced your plans for afternoon tea, Miss Braddock. Cyborgs killed my mother and stole from me.

Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough . . . maybe something good finally happens.

It's me . My anxiety. I do this thing after I'm around people where I obsessively overanalyze every interaction to see where I went wrong or who I offended.

Samurai are born to die. Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth. Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in. Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts. No one is a bad person in his or her own mind. We are all noble protagonists.

It takes time to see anyone's real damage.

Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests. In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door.

All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?! You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness! Your judgement is shit! Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.

Rush life like a yellow light.

the difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet. She told me everyone has let her down... ...except for me. And all I could think was, give me time.

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet.

I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.