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(and dude, if anyone can hook me up with tapes, I'll be forever grateful.)
Trevor: "So there's no situation in which a delusion is preferable to what you mortals call reality."
Claire: "None. Trevor, and that goes to whatever horror you've lived through as well."
Trevor: "Good luck, Claire -- No delusions. That's a philosophy that's not so easy to live by."
Don Quixote: "You know what the problem with the world is today?"
Trevor: "Mostly that I'm living in it."
Don Quixote: "Everyone sees only what is there -- No one sees what could be. No one believes anymore."
Gabe: I'm afraid that if I see someone that could be that one special person, I'll be too afraid or too desperate to even speak to her, and I'll watch the possibility for love -- for happiness -- walk out of my life."
Trevor: "...Attention"
Claire: "Attention from a streetful of strangers."
Trevor: No, no, no. From a streetful of possibilities, every day we pass a thousand people on the street, right? Any one of them could be our Fred or Ginger. But we're too preoccupied to notice. 'Did my
hair dry right?'; 'Does my tie go with my shirt?'; 'Should I have left Grandma at home with the Rottweillers when I'm out of kibble?'"
*
from Neil Gaiman's Sandman
"It means that we're just dolls. We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored."
--Rose Walker, in The Doll's House
"Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find out that inside someone you know there's just mucus and meat and slime and bone. They menstruate, salivate, defecate and cry. You know? Sometimes it can just kill the romance. You know that?"
--Eve, in Fables and Reflections
"Funny, she looks smaller from outside her head."
--Delirium, in Brief Lives
"I know how gods begin, Roger. We start as dreams. Then we walk out of dreams into the land. We are worshipped and loved, and take power to ourselves. And then one day there's no one left to worship us. And in the end, each little god and goddess takes its last journey back into dreams, and what comes after, not even we know. I'm going to dance now, I'm afraid."
--Ishtar, in Brief Lives
"So I said, 'Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, He ruined a perfectly good arsehole.'"
--A male stripper, in Brief Lives
"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it."
--Peaseblossom, in Dream Country
"Writers are liars, my dear."
--Erasmus Fry, in Dream Country
Desire: "Where I touch, things want and need and love- drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle flame."
Despair: "Moths. You mean moths."
Desire: "Butterflies. They're yours now, sister."
Death: "Yes."
--Dream Country
"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?"
--Death, in Death: The Hight Cost of Living
"'The Devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything."
--Lucifer, in Season of Mists
"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
--Hob Gadling, in Season of Mists
Delirium: "Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it ... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?"
Dream: "Change."
-- Brief Lives
*
from The X-Files
"Nature abhors normality. It can't go too long without a mutant."
--"Humbug"
"This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass!"
--Skinner in "Paper Clip"
"Mulder...are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?"
--Scully in "War of the Copraphages
"Yeah, well, Special Agent...Mulder? Is currently being held in five point restraint jabbering like a monkey. So what I'm looking at here is a warehouse break in but nothing's stolen, a shoot-out but no guns, lots of blood but no bodies, and a F.B.I. agent who wants to take off all his clothes and talk about space aliens!"
--Detective Munch in "Unusual Suspects"
*
from The Joxer Show--I mean, Xena
"The monster's dead. I killed it. Meet Joxer, the new God of War. You may bow."
--Joxer in "Ten Little Warlords"
"Just once I'd like to have a happy ending."
--Joxer in "For Him the Bell Tolls"
"Oh, come on! It's a great plan! Look, I've know lots of people who have bonded over their mutual hatred of me. You two for example."
--Joxer in "Been There, Done That"
*
X-stuff
"Love makes you want to stab people? That isn't love. That's brain damage. Though I do understand your confusion between the two, some days..."
-- Kurt, Excalibur 100
"If I'd had a normal life, I'd quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now. But as I've lead an utterly ridiculous life, I'd have to say that we're apparently surrounded by alternate timeline versions of ourselves."
--Nightcrawler, Excaliber #103
"Mama Espinosa didn't didn't bring up a single one of her kids to ever back down from a bully."
"Your mother sounds like a very smart woman."
"That or she raised some very stupid kids."
-- Skin and Grande Dame, Gen X
"It's not supposed to happen like this. Aren't we obligated to whine and fret and come up with one reason after another why we shouldn't be together?"
"Of course. And I should reveal I'm your uncle's clone from an alternate reality, and you're supposed to die and come back to life a few dozen times."
-- Psylocke and Archangel, UXM 319
"So what's her power? 'Sides the ability t'stick her chest out?" -- Jubilee
*
due South
"I thought I was in love once. And then later I thought maybe it was just an inner ear imbalance... We spent an evening snowed in on the side of a mountain watching the northern lights. It was probably the most dramatic moment of my life. But in the end I realized I'd learned two things. The first is... that it's easier to think you're in love than it is to accept that you're alone, and the second is that it's very easy to confuse love with subatomic particles bursting in the air. Well, I also learned that I should have my ears checked more regularly."
-- Fraser
"Okay, I'm standing at his door. I drop my coat. I look at him and he looks at me. You know how a squirrel looks just before you hit him?"
-- Francesca
"Hello, son."
"Hello, Dad. How are you?"
"I'm dead, son."
-- Robert and Benton Fraser
"In Canada we have more than a passing familiarity with confusion. We're comprised of 10 provinces and two territories communicating across 6 time zones in 2 official languages. The English don't understand the French, the French don't understand the English, and the Inuit quite frankly couldn't give a damn about either of them. Added to the equation is the Assembly of First Nations, with a total of 633 separate Indian bands, speaking 180 sub-dialects among their 50 linguistic groups; and as if that weren't enough there are some fishermen on the East coast with a remarkably whimsical accent."
-- Fraser
"Now in the care and operation of this vehicle there is one thing to remember and hold above all else. Never, I repeat, never use the lighter. Of all the original parts in this car it was the most difficult to replace it took me seven years to find that lighter and since I've owned it, it's never been depressed."
"Then how do you know it works?"
"I know in my soul."
-- Ray and Fraser
"My father said something that's always stuck with me, Ray."
"You father never shut up, did he?"
"He said a man with no future will always run to his past."
"And when did this come up, Fraser? Were you sitting around at breakfast when he came up with these things or did he come running into your room and just blurt 'em out?"
"Ray, there's no need to be sarcastic."
"No, I'm just curious. How did he work these things into every day conversation? Did he says 'son, did you see the size of that moose, and by the way, a man with no future will always run to his past'?"
-- Fraser and Ray
[I know not where all my RayK quotes went. vexing.]
*
Forever Knight
"For God's sake, you're almost 800 years old... what's an egg!"
-- Natalie
"In all the centuries I've had to think of you and what you might be doing, I never imagined you would rise to the lofty position of innkeeper."
-- Divia
"Since I can't list death as the cause of death - well, you see my predicament."
--Nat
"Don`t mock me!"
"Somebody has to."
-- Nick and Janette
"Did you just think to yourself, 'Oh, today would be a good day to spontaneously combust?'"
-- Natalie
(and dude, if anyone can hook me up with tapes, I'll be forever grateful.)
Trevor: "So there's no situation in which a delusion is preferable to what you mortals call reality."
Claire: "None. Trevor, and that goes to whatever horror you've lived through as well."
Trevor: "Good luck, Claire -- No delusions. That's a philosophy that's not so easy to live by."
Don Quixote: "You know what the problem with the world is today?"
Trevor: "Mostly that I'm living in it."
Don Quixote: "Everyone sees only what is there -- No one sees what could be. No one believes anymore."
Gabe: I'm afraid that if I see someone that could be that one special person, I'll be too afraid or too desperate to even speak to her, and I'll watch the possibility for love -- for happiness -- walk out of my life."
Trevor: "...Attention"
Claire: "Attention from a streetful of strangers."
Trevor: No, no, no. From a streetful of possibilities, every day we pass a thousand people on the street, right? Any one of them could be our Fred or Ginger. But we're too preoccupied to notice. 'Did my
hair dry right?'; 'Does my tie go with my shirt?'; 'Should I have left Grandma at home with the Rottweillers when I'm out of kibble?'"
*
from Neil Gaiman's Sandman
"It means that we're just dolls. We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored."
--Rose Walker, in The Doll's House
"Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find out that inside someone you know there's just mucus and meat and slime and bone. They menstruate, salivate, defecate and cry. You know? Sometimes it can just kill the romance. You know that?"
--Eve, in Fables and Reflections
"Funny, she looks smaller from outside her head."
--Delirium, in Brief Lives
"I know how gods begin, Roger. We start as dreams. Then we walk out of dreams into the land. We are worshipped and loved, and take power to ourselves. And then one day there's no one left to worship us. And in the end, each little god and goddess takes its last journey back into dreams, and what comes after, not even we know. I'm going to dance now, I'm afraid."
--Ishtar, in Brief Lives
"So I said, 'Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, He ruined a perfectly good arsehole.'"
--A male stripper, in Brief Lives
"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it."
--Peaseblossom, in Dream Country
"Writers are liars, my dear."
--Erasmus Fry, in Dream Country
Desire: "Where I touch, things want and need and love- drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle flame."
Despair: "Moths. You mean moths."
Desire: "Butterflies. They're yours now, sister."
Death: "Yes."
--Dream Country
"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?"
--Death, in Death: The Hight Cost of Living
"'The Devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything."
--Lucifer, in Season of Mists
"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due."
--Hob Gadling, in Season of Mists
Delirium: "Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it ... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?"
Dream: "Change."
-- Brief Lives
*
from The X-Files
"Nature abhors normality. It can't go too long without a mutant."
--"Humbug"
"This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass!"
--Skinner in "Paper Clip"
"Mulder...are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?"
--Scully in "War of the Copraphages
"Yeah, well, Special Agent...Mulder? Is currently being held in five point restraint jabbering like a monkey. So what I'm looking at here is a warehouse break in but nothing's stolen, a shoot-out but no guns, lots of blood but no bodies, and a F.B.I. agent who wants to take off all his clothes and talk about space aliens!"
--Detective Munch in "Unusual Suspects"
*
from The Joxer Show--I mean, Xena
"The monster's dead. I killed it. Meet Joxer, the new God of War. You may bow."
--Joxer in "Ten Little Warlords"
"Just once I'd like to have a happy ending."
--Joxer in "For Him the Bell Tolls"
"Oh, come on! It's a great plan! Look, I've know lots of people who have bonded over their mutual hatred of me. You two for example."
--Joxer in "Been There, Done That"
*
X-stuff
"Love makes you want to stab people? That isn't love. That's brain damage. Though I do understand your confusion between the two, some days..."
-- Kurt, Excalibur 100
"If I'd had a normal life, I'd quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now. But as I've lead an utterly ridiculous life, I'd have to say that we're apparently surrounded by alternate timeline versions of ourselves."
--Nightcrawler, Excaliber #103
"Mama Espinosa didn't didn't bring up a single one of her kids to ever back down from a bully."
"Your mother sounds like a very smart woman."
"That or she raised some very stupid kids."
-- Skin and Grande Dame, Gen X
"It's not supposed to happen like this. Aren't we obligated to whine and fret and come up with one reason after another why we shouldn't be together?"
"Of course. And I should reveal I'm your uncle's clone from an alternate reality, and you're supposed to die and come back to life a few dozen times."
-- Psylocke and Archangel, UXM 319
"So what's her power? 'Sides the ability t'stick her chest out?" -- Jubilee
*
due South
"I thought I was in love once. And then later I thought maybe it was just an inner ear imbalance... We spent an evening snowed in on the side of a mountain watching the northern lights. It was probably the most dramatic moment of my life. But in the end I realized I'd learned two things. The first is... that it's easier to think you're in love than it is to accept that you're alone, and the second is that it's very easy to confuse love with subatomic particles bursting in the air. Well, I also learned that I should have my ears checked more regularly."
-- Fraser
"Okay, I'm standing at his door. I drop my coat. I look at him and he looks at me. You know how a squirrel looks just before you hit him?"
-- Francesca
"Hello, son."
"Hello, Dad. How are you?"
"I'm dead, son."
-- Robert and Benton Fraser
"In Canada we have more than a passing familiarity with confusion. We're comprised of 10 provinces and two territories communicating across 6 time zones in 2 official languages. The English don't understand the French, the French don't understand the English, and the Inuit quite frankly couldn't give a damn about either of them. Added to the equation is the Assembly of First Nations, with a total of 633 separate Indian bands, speaking 180 sub-dialects among their 50 linguistic groups; and as if that weren't enough there are some fishermen on the East coast with a remarkably whimsical accent."
-- Fraser
"Now in the care and operation of this vehicle there is one thing to remember and hold above all else. Never, I repeat, never use the lighter. Of all the original parts in this car it was the most difficult to replace it took me seven years to find that lighter and since I've owned it, it's never been depressed."
"Then how do you know it works?"
"I know in my soul."
-- Ray and Fraser
"My father said something that's always stuck with me, Ray."
"You father never shut up, did he?"
"He said a man with no future will always run to his past."
"And when did this come up, Fraser? Were you sitting around at breakfast when he came up with these things or did he come running into your room and just blurt 'em out?"
"Ray, there's no need to be sarcastic."
"No, I'm just curious. How did he work these things into every day conversation? Did he says 'son, did you see the size of that moose, and by the way, a man with no future will always run to his past'?"
-- Fraser and Ray
[I know not where all my RayK quotes went. vexing.]
*
Forever Knight
"For God's sake, you're almost 800 years old... what's an egg!"
-- Natalie
"In all the centuries I've had to think of you and what you might be doing, I never imagined you would rise to the lofty position of innkeeper."
-- Divia
"Since I can't list death as the cause of death - well, you see my predicament."
--Nat
"Don`t mock me!"
"Somebody has to."
-- Nick and Janette
"Did you just think to yourself, 'Oh, today would be a good day to spontaneously combust?'"
-- Natalie
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Date: 2002-06-17 10:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-06-21 07:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-06-17 10:57 pm (UTC)"You father never shut up, did he?"
"He said a man with no future will always run to his past."
Hey, I actually saw that episode! It had the pancakes and the compulsive liar and the road trip!
um. right. random outburst. ::slinks away::
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Date: 2002-06-21 07:13 am (UTC)