Top 40 Scott Reintgen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You can’t expect to always feel like yourself. Just don’t lose who you are. Are you a bad person? Of course not. Does that mean you’ll always do the right thing? Of course not. No one’s perfect.”

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2. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”

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3. “I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to be better than the other guy.”

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4. “You will be glad that you are not like them. You’ll be glad that you showed mercy to those who did not deserve it. Watching you gives me hope. If we are to send representatives down to a new world, they should not be people without mercy. Babel chose you because you’re poor. They thought you would be easy to manipulate. Twice you’ve proven them wrong. Twice you’ve set the sword aside when they’ve asked you to swing it. When you look back, it won’t be mercy that you regret.”

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5. “Food can give a man back his dignity. So can treating him with honor and respect. In the days to come, this will be our measure. Do we treat others with the dignity they deserve, regardless of where they come from?”

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6. “It’s just one day, I remind myself. My fight is one of decades and generations. One bad day won’t stop me from rising up. I won’t quit, not today, not ever.”

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7. “And just like that, I’m leaving Earth behind.”

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8. “Joy slips through our fingers because we’re grasping and reaching for everything else. We’re past being broken.”

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9. “Fools, he used to say, will ignore whispers until they become shouts. And by the time a whisper is a shout, it’s usually too late to make a difference.”

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10. “They say pain is weakness leaving the body. If that’s true, each of us is becoming strong enough to carry worlds on our shoulders.”

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11. “You know, I was thinking, they mentioned the pods have room for two.” I throw her a playacted look of nervousness, biting my fingernails with exaggeration. “I was – I mean, if you’re not busy or whatever – I was wondering if maybe you’d launch into space with me.”

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12. “You’re broken,” she answers quietly. “The same kind of broken as me.”

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13. “Whenever I messed up – and man, I messed up all the time – he wouldn’t even talk about the bad thing. He’d just tell me to be good. Like, hey, next time, be good.”

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14. “Be worthy. Not in their eyes, but in yours. Break the rules you need to, but never forget who you are and where you come from. When they knock you down, and they will, don’t you quit on me.”

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15. “I watch him die and remind myself that kings aren’t innocent in war. When you put on the crown and order troops to kill, you invite the judgement of an enemy’s sword.”

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16. “Life’s thrown shots at me from every direction. Through all of it, I learned that distance is its own kind of armor.”

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17. “There’s not much left for me on Earth. I wanted to go as far away as possible. Where better than a new planet?” Her eyes squeeze shut for a second. “But they don’t tell you the pain comes with you. They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.”

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18. “It’s hard to tell the difference between rich and wrong.”

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19. “Survivors. That’s what we are now. And survivors have scars.”

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20. “Every day I find myself living more and more in the gray. Nothing is easy. Nothing is black-and-white.”

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21. “Guilt like this doesn’t leave. You can set it aside, but it’s always there, waiting.”

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22. “Pops has always told me ignorance is the most dangerous thing in the world. Fools, he used to say, will ignore whispers until they become shouts. And by the time a whisper is a shout, it’s usually too late to make a difference.”

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23. “Come rain or fire, come plague or famine – we survive.”

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24. “Pride roars through me like a river. It rushes over my oldest wounds and washes away the most haunting memories. It sweeps over all the scars that pushed me to leave my family and launch into space. Pride brighter than the sun.”

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25. “They’ll regret how sharp we are now that we’re aimed at them.”

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26. “You lose yourself to anger and that’s it. It’s a lonely road, and a long one. But if you find a way to control your feelings, if you can take that anger and make sure you’re the boss of it, then you won’t be so bad.”

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27. “Bright fires can still burn out, though.”

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28. “Mi abuelita always says you get one of two worlds. You either get the world you hope for or the world you fear.”

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29. “Death knocks at our door, and the sound forces all three of them to act on an unspoken promise. It is a contract each of them keeps in the quiet of their own hearts. All three would trade their lives for any of ours.”

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30. “I take courage from both of them. Morning the warrior, Bilal the healer.”

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31. “I find myself laughing more and more as I walk, though, picturing a whole generation of Imago who think Katsu is the author of the Harry Potter series.”

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32. “I really don’t know,” I say. “It’s hard to tell the difference between rich and wrong.”

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33. “The last thing we need is for someone to survive the apocalypse only to get taken out in a game of pickup football.”

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34. “I’m used to a world that sells me a lie and pretends it’s the truth.”

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35. “Is that how things work in your world? You only have to fight if you choose to fight? In our world, the fight comes to you whether you ask for it or not.”

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36. “You’re my queen down here,” she admits. “But sleep is still my god.”

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37. “I am more than what you will make of me.”

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38. “Destruction in the right kind of therapy.”

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39. “A stranger in a strange land.”

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40. “History remembers the darkest moments.”

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41. “The people we love are somewhere else, crossing some other ocean. We’ll have no idea how safe they are until we meet them in the middle.”

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42. “She’s beautiful the way a mountain is tall. I almost tell her before stopping. You don’t need to tell a mountain it’s tall. It already knows that.”

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