Quotes from Rick Remender

In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which. By that logic you should settle for me. Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have.

How can anyone love me when I can't find a single reason to love myself? Do you ever feel like you've given yourself away? Let the world drain away every important thing about you? Why can't anything ever just feel...normal?

She's out of my league, but if she has herpes... That puts us in the same league! The herpes league!

Hope is a lie that becomes true

Sometimes, remembering a moment in your life can physically hurt as you relive everything that mattered to you then, and realize how far gone it is now.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

Folks believe the side of the story that suits 'em.

The difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.

But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

But I'm a fucking hypocrite; because when things get bad enough, I pray for help. And tonight, things are bad.

Depression is a big fucked-up monster. Everyone gets a turn, whether or not they want to own up to it. It's a hard fight that fucks you top to bottom. Drains you hollow. And when you're finally rid of it, there's something about having overcome it that robs you of compassion.

To resist the depths of the world's sorrow, the truth of one's heart must be honored.

Your adult life was nothing more than an exercise in forgetting your childhood. Always angry because you didn't get the approval all children need.

What is so broken about me? So unlikable? Why does it still hurt?

It's not even the other kids, because fuck them. 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.

No one learns from the road walked by another man.

He told me about his ex-girlfriend. She'd died for about eight minutes. When she recovered he asked her what was it like. She told him to describe "blue".

Been complaining for so long maybe it's all I know how to do.

My dad had a framed picture of a surfer on a giant wave in his den. The wave always looked so huge. My Papa told me that was life. This giant thing trying to get you that you had to find pleasure in riding.

Isn't the dull pain of the centrists conformity delicious, edgelord?

The comic book nerds] haggle over pedantic nonsense in shrill voices.

No dude, no. Friends don't let friends share dairy.

Every work of art is a request for love and attention.