Matt Wallace > Quotes

“Life is never that clean," he assures her. "Neither is magic.”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“So you’re saying they don’t want to kill us, they want to fuck us?”
“At that level of desire the two acts are interchangeable, sir.”
― Matt Wallace, Lustlocked

“To be stabbed by a woman you didn't even sleep with for several years first," Ryland said. "Shameful. Had you an ounce of male pride you'd hang yourself with your own penis.”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“It?”
“Her. Him. Whatever.”
“Angel is neither man nor woman. Men and women came later.”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“I am going to kill the fuck out of you now,” he informs the Easter bunny.”
― Matt Wallace, Pride's Spell

“Tag, you know ‘half-and-half’ is a pejorative use of an ableist term,” Jett chastises. “Both the minotaur contingent and the centaur contingent find it highly offensive –”
― Matt Wallace, Pride's Spell

“So is this, like, dynamite?”
“It’s HMX compounded with three percent polymer-bonded explosive composite,” Cindy says …
“Did you say that all extra technical to make me feel like an asshole” Moon asks.
“Mm-hmmm.”
― Matt Wallace, Lustlocked

“So he did what all great men do, in the beginning, before they become great men. He stepped up.”
― Matt Wallace, The Failed Cities Monologues

“The main dry storage room of Sin du Jour is filled with a light unseen on Earth since a time of abject innocence.
And that was long ago, indeed.”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“Didn’t we option this one’s spec?” Producer One asks Producer Two, using his Italian-loafered foot to prod the eviscerated writer in question.
There’s a whole pile of them.
Dead writers, that is.
Most of their hearts have been ripped from their chests. Some of them are missing their brains. Several are still clutching screenplays in their arms.”
― Matt Wallace, Pride's Spell

“it’s really not complicated.”
“Yeah, I’m sure I can just Google it.”
― Matt Wallace, Lustlocked

“Not all traitors carry knives in the dark.”
― Matt Wallace, Savage Legion

“We contract with them.”
“And demons –”
“Are one of those group.”
“Like, from Hell?”
“Sometimes. And sometimes from Park Avenue.”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“You smell like a wino dipped in other winos,” Dorsky”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“And try as we might, small magic never seems to win out over giant meat.”
― Matt Wallace, Lustlocked

“A ruler is a target. A bureaucracy, on the other hand, is an endless forest in which the discontent lose both their way and their will to rebel, with nowhere and no one to focus their ire upon. We give them no direction, no bull's-eye for any anger or frustration or malice they may harbor against the state.”
― Matt Wallace, Savage Legion

“At some point, Maxwell, you have to decide to stop waiting, for adults or anyone else your age. As you say, perhaps some rules are good, and they are there for a reason. I am not saying you should not follow those rules. I am saying you have to stop waiting for other people to tell you what to do. You have to stop waiting for other people to tell you how and who to be. You have to stop waiting for other people to give you permission to live your life.”
― Matt Wallace, The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid

“Everyone else sees a legion of undead clowns worshipping a giant chicken, right?” Moon asks.”
― Matt Wallace, Envy of Angels

“Fear is a tool, like anything else. The trick is learning to use it without it turning on you.”
― Matt Wallace, Idle Ingredients

“Indiana Jones was an imperialist grave-robbing sumbitch,” Cindy chimes in from behind Ritter. “I hate those fucking movies.”
― Matt Wallace, Pride's Spell

“Do you know why he became so angry when you started asking him questions? It was not because you were defying him or challenging him. It was because you made him think, for the briefest second, about what he was doing to you. Bullies do not like that. If they are forced to remember that you are a person just like them, that means they have to consider that they are wrong, that they are cruel.”
― Matt Wallace, The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid

“There’s a fine line between terrorists and revolutionaries, and on both sides of that line they want Kem and every slinger like him dead and to see Sling City and the arena themselves drifting aimlessly in scorched pieces through space. They see the games as a global distraction from the wars that have been raging for close to a decade now. The wrong side is winning, as it often does. The corporations and governments are lying to the people, as they often do. Kem never involved or invested himself in politics. Since the age of thirteen he’s cared about three things: his team, winning, and being the best. You can call it selfish, or you can call it a reduced worldview.   The”
― Matt Wallace, Slingers

“Adults rarely understand the difference between teaching a child what they need to know and controlling everything a child does. Somehow, adults only remember how much they did not know when they were children. They forget all the things they did know, and they forgot how early they knew them.”
― Matt Wallace, The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid

“You do not need violence to solve your problems. Be assured that your enemies are far, far weaker than you believe yourself to be. Were they not so weak and unsure, they would not need to inflict on you in order to feel better about themselves. They also suffer from a tragic lack of imagination. This can and will be their downfall.”
― Matt Wallace, The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid

“So you're saying they don't want to kill us, they want to fuck us?"
"At that level of desire the two acts are interchangeable, sir.”
― Matt Wallace, Lustlocked