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1 " There's no seduction any more, diary. No subtlety. No tidy-yourself-up in this world. No need for personal pride. There's just the things you're prepared to do - for survival, for fulfillment, for whatever-the-hell-it-is you really need - and the things you're not. "
― Simon Spurrier , Crossed: Wish You Were Here, Volume 2
2 " So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off. "
― Simon Spurrier
3 " All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy... from life itself can we hope to spare others from grief. We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already. -- Librarian Secundus Thryn of the Doom Eagles "
4 " Broken ain't the same as worthless. And sometimes the fix is worse than the break. "
― Simon Spurrier , Judgment
5 " In quiet moments I can easily believe my spirit's so toxic, so noxious, that it repels people like the stench of rot. Better to keep to myself. Easier to push folks away than to watch them learn to hate you. "
6 " Little wonder he felt so often that he'd prolapsed all moral certainty. "
7 " Maybe it's not about being popular, eh? Maybe it's enough to be right. "
― Simon Spurrier , X-Men Legacy: Legion, Vol. 1: Prodigal
8 " It is a truth universally acknowledged that stability requires far more effort to restore than to disrupt. "
― Simon Spurrier , The Dreaming, Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations
9 " Evil is just a measure of how much your choices take away other people's. "
10 " Some people don't have people, kid. "
― Simon Spurrier , The Spire
11 " A king...we need a king...Such delicious eyebrows...He's only got to ask...Hahahaha He's only got to wish...and the crown is hisssss. "
― Simon Spurrier , Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation, Vol. 1
12 " On a long enough timeline, every story ends. Lives always fail. Love always fades. And every secret learned is one less thing to dream about. "
― Simon Spurrier , Love, Part 2