Retired Monster/Quotes

"...You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed. And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight, You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking. And after a while, you can work on points for style. Like the club tie, and the firm handshake, A certain look in the eye and an easy smile. You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, So that when they turn their backs on you, You'll get the chance to put the knife in. You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder. You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older. And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south, Hide your head in the sand, Just another sad old man, All alone and dying of cancer."

—Pink Floyd - Dogs

Duncan: Is what she said true?
Methos: The times were different, MacLeod. I was different. The whole bloody world was different, okay?
Duncan: Did you kill all those people?

Methos: Yes. Is that what you want to hear? Killing was all I knew. Is that what you want to hear? ... I killed. But I didn't just kill fifty, I didn't kill a hundred. I killed a thousand. I killed TEN thousand! And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance, it wasn't for greed. It was because... I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death. Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is that what you want to hear?! The answer is yes. Oh yes.

—Highlander the Series

"What do you wish to hear? That I once believed in the code of the Jedi? That I felt the call of the Sith, that perhaps, once, I held the galaxy by its throat? That for every good work that I did, I brought equal harm upon the galaxy? That perhaps what the greatest of the Sith Lords knew of evil, they learned from me?"

—Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic II

"Truth and beauty are wonderful words, but shrapnel is shrapnel, and at the end of the day, I am alone with what I have done." (alt text: "We buried truth under playgrounds.")

—A Softer World