Top 60 Drew Hayes Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Fine, I’m going to beat you like a toddler in a wolverine fight.” “You will feel more distress than if you were trapped on an airplane during its landing approach and suddenly suffered an unstoppable bowel movement.” “Explain,” Angela demanded. “During a landing approach, one is not allowed to leave their seat for any reason. Not even sudden bowel movements that won’t be stopped.” Angela had to admit, that scenario probably would fill her with a noticeable amount of distress.”

— Drew Hayes

2. “What is experience if not the accumulation of scars and lessons that allow us to use our mind, bodies, and powers more effectively?”

— Drew Hayes

3. “The constant threat of death was such a persistent companion, it almost felt like they should get it a horse.”

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4. “A superhero defends what is just; a villain defends what is theirs.”

— Drew Hayes

5. “Any divine guidance before I go back?” “Always tip the bartender more than you think you should, be nice to the people who know where you sleep, and beware the bush with red flowers.” Grumble.”

— Drew Hayes

6. “Is this a good slow clap moment? Because it kind of feels like a good slow clap moment.”

— Drew Hayes

7. “New plan. It’s exactly the same as the old plan, except we try very hard not to die.”

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8. “Try not to let them scare you too much. But, don’t forget, that they are scary people.”

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9. “Glitter is a form of anti-depressant, because it is impossible to be sad when you twinkle.”

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10. “You know, you’re a pretty terrible person.” “You’re not the first to accuse me of such.” “I didn’t imagine I would be. Still, in spite of that, or maybe because of it, you’re also a really good friend.”

— Drew Hayes

11. “To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.”

— Drew Hayes

12. “The reason I told you this was pointless is because it is,” Vince said, staring down at Michael as his defense slid away in jagged, icy chunks. “You can’t freeze me. You can’t hit me. You can’t even defend against me. You’re so far below me that beating you isn’t even a challenge. You’re nothing to me, Michael.”

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13. “To lead a kingdom doesn’t mean we are more important than our subjects, it means our lives belong to them. They trust us to care for them, watch over them, and keep them safe from would-be conquerors. No matter how much I might want to be human, right now my people need me to be a monster, because a monster is what can stand against someone like you.”

— Drew Hayes

14. “Those who lived in the light could never truly know what it was to dwell in the shadows.”

— Drew Hayes

15. “You know, people give things like greed and wrath a bad rap. Sure, they’ll cause plenty of folks to make some poor, shortsighted decisions, but in the end they lack staying power. Now love, on the other hand, love is in a whole different category. Love is what can truly turn people into demons.”

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16. “I’m working on the future, instead of being caught up in where I am today. – Roy Daniels.”

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17. “I don’t know if Mr. Greene is ever actually happy. Hopefully he’ll be ambivalent. I think that’s his version of happy.”

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18. “See, I told you we’d get lucky.” Nick gloated as he munched on a thick hamburger. “We didn’t get lucky,” Vince corrected. “We got lost. For half an hour. Until I went into a building and asked for directions.” “And wasn’t it lucky I brought along a guy with no masculinity issues to ask for directions?” Nick pointed out.”

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19. “Our minds and memories cannot be trusted; spend too long in there trying to pull out a memory that doesn’t exist, and you’ll end up creating it. Imagination is a powerful thing, especially when combined with uncertainty and self-doubt. I’ve seen others build their own hells around them with the fears of what they might have done.”

— Drew Hayes

20. “Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.”

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21. “I don’t know that I believe in beauty sleep, but if you don’t leave me be, you’re going to see some ugly-awake.”

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22. “This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people.”

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23. “Are you telling me that vampires and werewolves are the reason America won the Revolutionary War?,” I asked, dumbfounded.”

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24. “Most college students would have deemed it a waste of a perfectly good Friday night, but most students were not in a program with constant stress and regular physical battles, with the possible exception of architecture majors.”

— Drew Hayes

25. “If that was some sort of death threat, it may very well be the third most lovely one I’ve ever received.”

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26. “You’re a good man who happens to be a vampire. We aren’t human, but that doesn’t make us monsters.”

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27. “Friday has always been the blessed child of Time. It’s admired, looked forward to, and savored with each occurrence.”

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28. “My unlife was so boring that even the woman who hunted monsters saw me as harmless.”

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29. “We’ll loot the bodies and be on our way.” “The words that start every great adventure,” Gabrielle quipped sarcastically. She might have been surprised to discover how accurate that statement truly was.”

— Drew Hayes

30. “My father always says we have to be the best version of us, instead of trying to be someone else.”

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31. “You will eventually discover that under the movie stereotypes, imposed mystique, and overall inflated expectations, each and every one of us is at least a touch more boring than our images would indicate. And that is not a bad thing.”

— Drew Hayes

32. “For once, the only one she had to please with her decision was herself, and the truth was, Gabrielle had been far happier as a pretend goblin, than a pretend proper lady.”

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33. “Newsflash: every relationship a person has ends in failure, save for one. Maybe two if you count getting remarried after they kick off, but the point is, we all go in with a ninety-whatever percent failure rate.”

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34. “It’s curious that children can either be expert liars or utterly incapable of hiding their emotions, and the classification changes from minute to minute.”

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35. “Experience is more than just the summation of events catalogued into our life; it is the seasoning that flavors personalities, giving them depth and complexity where otherwise absent. The big events we experience can define how we see ourselves.”

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36. “Still, I find lying to be more dangerous than expertly telling the truth, so I avoid it whenever possible.”

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37. “The next time he spoke it was with fury, hope, and desperation all rolled together like a burrito of command.”

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38. “The training area was set up where the tournament would actually be held, since putting together two structures to serve the same purpose would be at the level of idiotic redundancy reserved for the highest halls of government.”

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39. “He kept expecting the techno-armored girl to move as he drew close, but she remained as lifeless as a politician’s conscience.”

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40. “Are you telling me that vampires and werewolves are the reason America won the Revolutionary War?” I asked, dumbfounded. “No, I’m saying America somehow managed to pull it out thanks to the French,” Krystal scoffed. There was a beat of silence, then Albert said: “You know, when you think about it, her version makes a lot more sense.”

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41. “Instinct was well and good in the right situations, but I refused to let it dictate how I treated or reacted to the people around me. What they were was not the same as who they were, and I knew that better than anyone.”

— Drew Hayes

42. “The truth had its place, and it was called a deathbed.”

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43. “Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.”

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44. “I am still a god, after all. There’s a certain way these things are done.”

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45. “Undead or alive, human or parahuman, everyone is capable of taking steps forward. Ours might have been moving at a lurching, unwieldy pace, but we were taking them all the same. It was irrelevant if we might have been a bit slower than more socially adjusted people. We were taking our steps together, and that was all that really mattered.”

— Drew Hayes

46. “Sometimes, attaining the impossible was simply a matter of continuously putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what.”

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47. “Alice arched an eyebrow. “The gravity guy? I can see why the apple took a swing at him.”

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48. “Ms. Pips thinks it’s good to have someone always trying to kill me. Says it builds caution and forethought.”

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49. “Death was a one-shot deal – it happened, and then you were free. Sally was an old-school southern woman, and Hank knew first-hand that they weren’t nearly as kind as death when they got cross.”

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50. “It certainly wasn’t a tale as old as time, but it was at least as old as capitalism.”

— Drew Hayes