Just finished reading an advance reader's copy of 'Marvel Comics Classic Quotes' by Robb Pearlman (more on the book here: https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/08/arc-read-marvel-comics-classic-quotes.html), and it reminded me of one of my favourite quotes from Loki: Agent of Asgard #13, by Al Ewing, Lee Garbett, and Antonio Fabela, and how genuinely good that whole run was:
"What is a lie, when it's at home? Anyone? Is it the depressed little voice inside? Whispering in my ear? Telling me to give up? Well, I'm not giving up. Not for that part of me that hates myself. That wants me to wither and die. Not for you. Never for you. What's a lie, Verity? A lie is a story told. That's all. And we can rewrite our stories. All of us. Write our own happy endings. Our own redefinitions. We don't have to be what we're told to be. Even by ourselves." …
Just finished reading an advance reader's copy of 'Marvel Comics Classic Quotes' by Robb Pearlman (more on the book here: https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/08/arc-read-marvel-comics-classic-quotes.html), and it reminded me of one of my favourite quotes from Loki: Agent of Asgard #13, by Al Ewing, Lee Garbett, and Antonio Fabela, and how genuinely good that whole run was:
"What is a lie, when it's at home? Anyone? Is it the depressed little voice inside? Whispering in my ear? Telling me to give up? Well, I'm not giving up. Not for that part of me that hates myself. That wants me to wither and die. Not for you. Never for you. What's a lie, Verity? A lie is a story told. That's all. And we can rewrite our stories. All of us. Write our own happy endings. Our own redefinitions. We don't have to be what we're told to be. Even by ourselves."
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