For me, a few come to mind:

  • “You’re imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were.”

It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don’t all look like supermodels. And supermodels don’t lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.

  • “Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.”

It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.

There were a few others that I probably can’t remember of the top of my head right now.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    “Some people deserve to be punished.” - Amos Burton (actor Wes Chatham), The Expanse season 2, in reference to an opportunist who had been enriching himself during a humanitarian crisis; comparing him to pimps that force kids and vulnerable people into prostitution.

    Full quote

    (after beating up an uncooperative person and threatening him at gunpoint, then getting confronted about it)

    I didn’t kill him. Not yet. He’s a bully, and where I come from, bullies take desperate young girls like your daughter and force them into prostitution. And when they finally get knocked up, they peddle them to johns who get off on that. After they have the kid, they push them right back out on the streets even before they have a chance to heal. And those kids, they use them, too. Some people deserve to be punished.

    • LouNeko@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      2 months ago

      The Expanse has so many memorable quotes.

      • “You’re not that guy. I am that GUY.”
        - Amos
      • “What is it you’re think you’re doing?” “WHATEVER I GOD DAMN LIKE.”
        - Avaserala answering to the council
      • “You look like shit.” “You look amazing.”
        - Avaserala and Amos on Luna
      • “I’m just gonna take my pet nuke for a walk.”
        - Miller on Ceres Station
      • Im_old@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        And Amos was so great. Both the actor and the character. The books are possibly even better