Bad Guys Quotes

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Jim  Butcher
“No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.”
Jim Butcher, Cold Days

Darynda Jones
“I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.”
Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left

Rick Riordan
“My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.”
Rick Riordan, The Maze of Bones

Laini Taylor
“And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.”
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Kimberly   Black
“In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.”
Kimberly Black, A Fiction Writer's Character Workbook

H.M. Ward
“He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.”
H.M. Ward, Damaged 2

Susan Abulhawa
“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

Rick Yancey
“You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."

Best lesson my father ever taught me.”
Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Shannon A. Thompson
“Those are the bad guys, right?”
“Depends on who wins, I guess.”
Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

Jenna Moreci
“You’re supposed to tell me your plan. [...]
“My plan?”
“Yeah,” [...] “Your ingenious method. You’re supposed to tell me all the bullshit you did to get me to this point. The bad guys do it in all the movies.”
Jenna Moreci, Eve: The Awakening

“It was a symbiotic relationship. Or codependent, whatever.
They needed me to be the bad guy.
And I needed them to be the good guys.
See, if they were the good guys, and I was on their team, then that automatically made me a good guy, too. Even if I was different.”
K. A. Applegate

Martijn Benders
“Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the points of stories is that they should have some sort of redeeming character, or, at the very least, trick the viewer into believing such. But seeing the world nowadays has no such effect, its bad guys VS bad guys VS bad guys, and all you can think about is how the hell can I switch off this horrible depravity”
Martinus Hendrikus Benders

K.B. Rainwater
“Good guys are boring. Bad guys are hot.”
K. B. Rainwater, Bite Me

C.A.A. Savastano
“Sometimes there are no good guys in a story.”
C.A.A. Savastano

Ashley Jade
“Because sometimes in life, sweetheart. The bad guys win

-Ford 'Blame It on the Pain”
Ashley Jade, Blame It on the Pain

Patricia Cornwell
“every time you get rid of one toad there's another to take his place”
Patricia Cornwell, Cruel & Unusual

T.J. Kirk
“We act as if a left-wing agenda is something we should disavow. Of course we don't have an agenda, only the bad guys have an agenda! Yes, you're right, right now, only the bad guys have an agenda. That's why they're winning.”
T.J. Kirk

Stephen        King
“We’re the good guys, right?” Jared asked.
“I don’t know,” Michaela admitted. “But I’m positive we’re not the bad guys.”
“That’s something,” Jared said.”
Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

Vivian French
“Skulls" said Lady Lamorna. "Definitely skulls. Rows and rows of dear little skulls, sewn all along the hem.”
Vivian French, The Robe of Skulls

Jennifer Megan Varnadore
“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”
Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Samantha Hunt
“There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really”
Samantha Hunt, Mr. Splitfoot

Barbara Nickless
“The bad guys don't wear signs. And all of us are only human.”
Barbara Nickless, Blood on the Tracks

“I'm sick of chasing shadows.
But that's where the bad guys are.”
Keith Wright

Vincent H. O'Neil
“I do what I want, to who I want, and you all tell yourselves Fouche is a bad guy, but he’s our bad guy. You guv people make no sense, but I can always count on you to open that cell door.”
Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Bad guys can easily partner with each other as both know that there is enough room for being worse, whereas good guys don’t as both believe they are the epitome of of goodness.”
Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

Sarah Madsen
“Don’t know if you noticed, Logan, but we’re runners. Technically, we’re the bad guys.”

“Well sure, if you are going to look at it that way. But I’m the hero of my own story, thank you.”
Sarah Madsen, Weaver's Folly