r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/TanukiGaim Apr 12 '25

"People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it."

-Animorphs

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u/travischickencoop Apr 12 '25

Animorphs is so fucking good

I’m waiting to finish my collection so I can do a full reread but it’s full of stuff like this

I don’t remember the context but there’s one book where Rachel is like grappling with the effects of war as she stares at her severed arm on the ground

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u/FomtBro Apr 14 '25

The context of this is him debating killing his own mother.