Wildbow Quotes

#1. Humans crave knowledge. It's a defining element in our species. Something we don't see in animals in that same way, something we don't see in Scion, unless it's a craving that takes a very different form in execution.

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#2. Or perhaps the distinction between the two wasn't so fine, between the man-made monster and the man made monster.

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#3. Everyone gets what they want most," Marquis mused. "I can't think of anything more terrifying.

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#4. Then I wish you a good day," Accord said. He managed to make it sound like fuck you, the way people in the Victorian era might have.

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#5. Plan for the worst," Grue replied, staring into the distance, "If you're right, you're prepared. If you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised.

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#6. This isn't a duality. I'm not one of the Balfour Academy soldiers, drinking a potion to become virile, ugly, and monstrously strong. There isn't a lever inside me that determines which of me you're talking to at once. A knife can cut or stab. The label doesn't change. It's still a knife.

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#7. Would you rather be a slave in heaven or a free man in hell?

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#8. But you shouldn't forget. The little stuff. Even a handshake? That's something special. Meaningful. Value it, even if you get it every day.

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#9. Death is inevitable. Life is too. Even if Scion succeeds, there will be some who remain, because they hid well enough, because they aren't interesting or different enough to kill. Life, death, a binary.

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#10. America wasn't perfect, but nothing touched by human hands could be. There was greed, corruption, selfishness, pettiness, hatred. But there were good things too. Freedoms, ideas, choices, hope and the possibility that anyone could be anything, here, if they were willing to strive for it.

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#11. Circumstances might be hard enough that maybe you need to find the little comforts, even if they aren't good for you.

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#12. Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority over anything else?

Or was it the opposite? Was he of the age where he had the ignorance of youth coupled with the arrogance of adulthood?

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#13. Emotions were a drug with their own side effects, ebbs and flows.

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#14. I don't think this looks easy at all. Going down any road labeled 'death' has to be the easier road.

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#15. A chronic failing of human beings, that we so rarely looked up.

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#16. On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it's the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.

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#17. Looking at this stuff, hearing you describe it all, I'm starting to think that maybe we'll destroy ourselves in the end. Infighting, stupidity, revenge, all of that. Humanity will clean up whatever members of humanity Scion leaves alive, or leave us too screwed up to bounce back.

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#18. I like to think people are stronger than they appear at first glance. Perhaps the same goes for cities as well?

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#19. Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world.

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#20. People didn't want to disturb norms. If one looked like they fit into the greater scheme of things, then it took a kind of courage to step away from the herd and stand out, challenging that.

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#21. We all have a monster somewhere inside us," Charlotte said. "Like I was saying about the kids. Sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it finds other forms of attack, and other times it's a cowardly one.

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#22. You're doing that crazy mastermind thing again," Cuff said.
"Which crazy mastermind thing?"
"Where you talk to the other masterminds and one of you leaves something unsaid, and the other knows what that thing is without asking

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#23. Everyone's the lead in their own story, Administrator. Some roles are bigger, some smaller, but none are more important, understand?

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#24. Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person in question. But you raise the reality of what they're doing, and it's a whole lot harder to shrug it off.

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#25. Free time is the easiest thing to sacrifice," Defiant said. "It costs you, to give it up, but there's little guilt.

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#26. Stupid things, in the end. Nonsensical. But stupid, nonsensical things were sometimes the most important.

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#27. There's a difference between serving the system and enabling it.

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#28. That's the funny thing about pity, Saint. It's condescending by default.

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#29. Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.

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#30. A huge pet peeve of mine: being asked to arrive for a specific time, then being made to wait. Fifteen minutes was just about my limit of my patience.

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#31. Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples.

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#32. I will take this gamble and perhaps kill those people in the process. I will kill those people who can make me smile and feel more human than I am, I will grieve their deaths, and then I will take that gamble again. Because one city, however grand, is worth that chance.

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#33. It was a fear that was all too easy to fall into when one's focus was too narrow. To be caught up in an environment, facing down a relentless torrent of negative experiences. Even the minor things added up, if you couldn't step back to look at things in perspective.

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#34. My continued employment supercedes death. It's a... consequence of dealing with beings that operate in the very deepest workings of reality.

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#35. I might fall, but I'll come back again and again. I might falter, but I'll return with twice the fury.

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#36. You want to neuter us," Director Tagg said. "Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city."
"As my client put it, Director, we're hoping to free you to focus your efforts on real targets.

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#37. This is my fate, I thought, a little deliriously. I die getting monologued to by a supervillain.

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#38. Shouldn't a catastrophe like this be met with rain? An overcast sky? It didn't seem right that things were so quiet, so calm, the day so tranquil when so many people had died, lost loved ones or suffered serious injury.

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#39. Can you live without charm, intimidation, or some form of influence over others? Without making others do your bidding on some level? You flirt, they react one way or another. Everything is manipulation.

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