Matthew Sturges > Quotes

“It’s the Longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It fills you up inside like rot and makes you dream dreams and it drowns you. The Longing keeps you in bed, clutching at your sheets while the world goes on outside. It smells like old leaves and cigarette smoke, mixed with the scent of far-off places you will hear of, but never see. It’s the gloss on a lover’s lips the moment you realize you will never kiss those lips again. It is the bittersweet, unrequited love of creation and it will break your heart again and again and again. If you know the Longing the way I do, then these words are redundant. We understand each other perfectly, you and I.”
― Matthew Sturges, House of Mystery, Volume 1: Room and Boredom

“Lovecraft said that the oldest and strongest type of fear is the fear of the unknown. And he was an authority on such matters.

But that's not exactly it, is it?

We like the unknown. We're hunky dory with the unknown. We are, in fact, perfectly thrilled with the unknown -- as long as it remains unknown and we never have to think about it.

What we're really afraid of is that the unknown will stand up and demand to be recognized. That it won't get out of the way quickly enough and we'll step in it, all squishy and moist. We're terrified at night in the dark that the rough, slouching unknown will crawl into bed and give us a hot wet kiss on the neck.

We're not afraid of the unknown. We're afraid of the unknown becoming known.”
― Matthew Sturges, House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People

“You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.”
― Matthew Sturges, House of Mystery, Volume 5: Under New Management

“A story should have a point, but a life doesn't need one. It just needs to be lived.”
― Matthew Sturges, House of Mystery, Volume 8: Desolation

“What do you expect me to do i am a pirate not a ninja!" - Annie, The House of Mystery”
― Matthew Sturges

“Words are lies. It's what's beneath the words that has any hope of being true.”
― Matthew Sturges, House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People

“You are not what you intend, you are what you do. Intention and action are separated by a chasm”
― Matthew Sturges, Thor: Season One

“It is especially so when, on some basic, primal level, you realize that the new world in front of you is somehow the place you were meant to be all along. For a little while, all you can do is gape in wonder. And then, if you are very brave, or very foolish, you take your first step. And at some point you realize---maybe then, maybe later---that the person who stepped through the doorway isn't the same person who emerged on the other side.”
― Matthew Sturges, House of Mystery, Volume 1: Room and Boredom

“Falling is easy. It's the landings that rip you up.”
― Matthew Sturges, Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 1

“Keep digging and you'll always discover a new low.”
― Matthew Sturges, Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 1

“Life is easier with friends... and we live a long fucking time.”
― Matthew Sturges, Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 1

“In the end, it is not what you choose to do that changes your destiny. It is what you choose to love.”
― Matthew Sturges, Thor: Season One