“
Good question. (Acheron)
I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian)
Nah, mine’s even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I’m thinking they’re not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don’t think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)
”
”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1))
“
I think... It would be good to erase boring movies from existence.
Hmm... Then I've got no choice but to kill you.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 11 [Chainsaw Man 11])
“
If your gonna kill me,just do it,I'm dead either way
-Denji(chainsaw man)
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto
“
I wanna feel some tits...
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw)
“
Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you
”
”
Lee Child (61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14))
“
Heyyy, do you like Chainsaw Man? I'm a big fan!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 13 [Chainsaw Man 13])
“
That's why I... I wanna be Chainsaw Man!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 11 [Chainsaw Man 11])
“
There was another pause, and Gansey realized she’d hung up. He leaned back against the fridge, eyes closed, guilty, comforted, wild, contained. In twenty-four hours, he’d be waiting for this again.
You know better you know better you know better
“What the hell, man?” Ronan said.
Gansey’s eyes flew open just as Ronan hit the lights. He stood in the doorway, headphones looped around his neck, Chainsaw hulking like a tender thug on his shoulder. Ronan’s eyes found the phone by Gansey’s leg, but he didn’t ask, and Gansey didn’t say anything. Ronan would hear a lie in a second, and the truth wasn’t an option. Jealousy had ruined Ronan for the first several months of Adam’s introduction into their group; this would hurt him more than that.
”
”
Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
“
Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.
”
”
Milkweed L. Augustine (The Chain Saw Man Cometh (Chainsaw Man #2))
“
¡De todas las mujeres que conozco, cada una de ellas me ha intentado matar! ¡Todas quieren el corazón del motosierra! ¡¿Que hay del corazón de Denji?!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 6 [Chainsaw Man 6])
“
Give her lots of hugs.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man Box Set: Includes volumes 1-11)
“
Denji: Makima, In the super ultra awesome world you'd make, would there be any crappy movies?
Makima: Why is Denji back...? I think... That it would be better without uninteresting movies
Denji: Hmmm... Yeah, guess I've gotta kill you then
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 11 [Chainsaw Man 11])
“
I'll tell you the secret to making a sophisticated doll. Take the human you'll turn into a doll.....and add emotions only humans have. Adoration. Worship. Pity. And the secret ingredient: Guilt.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 8 [Chainsaw Man 8])
“
Hey! I ain’t no fool! I watch educational television every day!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man Box Set: Includes volumes 1-11)
“
Stop that! I am not a corn dog!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 15 [Chainsaw Man 15])
“
I’m not gonna die before I cop a feel!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 2 [Chainsaw Man 2])
“
El secreto para tener una vida feliz en este mundo... Es que la ignorancia es felicidad.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 7 [Chainsaw Man 7])
“
No. The plan is to look at starfish for another 30 minutes.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 14 [Chainsaw Man 14])
“
I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.
”
”
Wendell Berry (The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry)
“
No matter who you are, life will present you similar opportunities where you can prove to be uncommon. There are people in all walks of life who relish those moments, and when I see them I recognize them immediately because they are usually that motherfucker who’s all by himself. It’s the suit who’s still at the office at midnight while everyone else is at the bar, or the badass who hits the gym directly after coming off a forty-eight-hour op. She’s the wildland firefighter who instead of hitting her bedroll, sharpens her chainsaw after working a fire for twenty-four hours. That mentality is there for all of us. Man, woman, straight, gay, black, white, or purple fucking polkadot. All of us can be the person who flies all day and night only to arrive home to a filthy house, and instead of blaming family or roommates, cleans it up right then because they refuse to ignore duties undone.
”
”
David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds)
“
The forest wanted to beg for mercy but knew precious little about us. Pine trees roared like chainsaws, hoping this was the language of man.
”
”
T.R. Darling
“
So this is the power of darkness...it's magnificent.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 8 [Chainsaw Man 8])
“
This is a contract. I’ll give you my heart in exchange. Show me your dreams
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw)
“
Todo el mundo menosprecia mis ideales en el trabajo... venganza, proteger a sus familias, salvar un gato ¡esto! ¡aquello! ¡y lo otro! ¡no es agradable que todo el mundo tenga sueños tan respetables!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 2 [Chainsaw Man 2])
“
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous"
i
Tell me it was for the hunger
& nothing less. For hunger is to give
the body what it knows
it cannot keep. That this amber light
whittled down by another war
is all that pins my hand
to your chest.
i
You, drowning
between my arms —
stay.
You, pushing your body
into the river
only to be left
with yourself —
stay.
i
I’ll tell you how we’re wrong enough to be forgiven. How one night, after
backhanding
mother, then taking a chainsaw to the kitchen table, my father went to kneel
in the bathroom until we heard his muffled cries through the walls.
And so I learned that a man, in climax, was the closest thing
to surrender.
i
Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade.
Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn.
Say autumn despite the green
in your eyes. Beauty despite
daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Unbreakable dawn
mounting in your throat.
My thrashing beneath you
like a sparrow stunned
with falling.
i
Dusk: a blade of honey between our shadows, draining.
i
I wanted to disappear — so I opened the door to a stranger’s car. He was divorced. He was still alive. He was sobbing into his hands (hands that tasted like rust). The pink breast cancer ribbon on his keychain swayed in the ignition. Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once. The moon, distant & flickering, trapped itself in beads of sweat on my neck. I let the fog spill through the cracked window & cover my fangs. When I left, the Buick kept sitting there, a dumb bull in pasture, its eyes searing my shadow onto the side of suburban houses. At home, I threw myself on the bed like a torch & watched the flames gnaw through my mother’s house until the sky appeared, bloodshot & massive. How I wanted to be that sky — to hold every flying & falling at once.
i
Say amen. Say amend.
Say yes. Say yes
anyway.
i
In the shower, sweating under cold water, I scrubbed & scrubbed.
i
In the life before this one, you could tell
two people were in love
because when they drove the pickup
over the bridge, their wings
would grow back just in time.
Some days I am still inside the pickup.
Some days I keep waiting.
i
It’s not too late. Our heads haloed
with gnats & summer too early
to leave any marks.
Your hand under my shirt as static
intensifies on the radio.
Your other hand pointing
your daddy’s revolver
to the sky. Stars falling one
by one in the cross hairs.
This means I won’t be
afraid if we’re already
here. Already more
than skin can hold. That a body
beside a body
must ma
”
”
Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
“
Nazis... Arnolon Syndrome... Soa... Aids... Nuclear Weapons... The Hio Mountain Eruption... They are all things that existed once, and they were feared, just as the devils bearing those names were feared.
However, there is no longer anyone other than me who remebers those names.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 10 [Chainsaw Man 10])
“
One day, back when I working at a video store, a woman accompanied by her two small sons walked up the counter with a tape box displaying a man slicing off someone’s head with a chainsaw. “Does this have any sex in it?” she asked. In my mind, it was like I was narrating a nature documentary on humans. “Watch as the American mother protects her young ones from dangerous influences.
”
”
Alex Bosworth (Chip Chip Chaw!)
“
No matter who you are, life will present you similar opportunities where you can prove to be uncommon. There are people in all walks of life who relish those moments, and when I see them I recognize them immediately because they are usually that motherfucker who’s all by himself. It’s the suit who’s still at the office at midnight while everyone else is at the bar, or the badass who hits the gym directly after coming off a forty-eight-hour op. She’s the wildland firefighter who instead of hitting her bedroll, sharpens her chainsaw after working a fire for twenty-four hours. That mentality is there for all of us. Man, woman, straight, gay, black, white, or purple fucking polka dot. All of us can be the person who flies all day and night only to arrive home to a filthy house, and instead of blaming family or roommates, cleans it up right then because they refuse to ignore duties undone.
”
”
David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds)
“
The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed World War II. By this account, it's with the introduction of modern technologies—turbines, railroads, chainsaws—that humans became a world-altering force. But the megafauna extinction suggests otherwise. [...] Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever did.
”
”
Elizabeth Kolbert (The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History)
“
On our return from the bush, we went straight back to work at the zoo. A huge tree behind the Irwin family home had been hit by lightning some years previously, and a tangle of dead limbs was in danger of crashing down on the house. Steve thought it would be best to take the dead tree down.
I tried to lend a hand. Steve’s mother could not watch as he scrambled up the tree. He had no harness, just his hat and a chainsaw. The tree was sixty feet tall. Steve looked like a little dot way up in the air, swinging through the tree limbs with an orangutan’s ease, working the chainsaw.
Then it was my turn. After he pruned off all the limbs, the last task was to fell the massive trunk. Steve climbed down, secured a rope two-thirds of the way up the tree, and tied the other end to the bull bar of his Ute.
My job was to drive the Ute. “You’re going to have to pull it down in just the right direction,” he said, chopping the air with his palm. He studied the angle of the tree and where it might fall.
Steve cut the base of the tree. As the chainsaw snarled, Steve yelled, “Now!” I put the truck in reverse, slipped the clutch, and went backward at a forty-five-degree angle as hard as I could. With a groan and a tremendous crash, the tree hit the ground.
We celebrated, whooping and hollering. Steve cut the downed timber into lengths and I stacked it. The whole project took us all day. By late in the afternoon, my back ached from stacking tree limbs and logs. As the long shadows crossed the yard, Steve said four words very uncharacteristic of him: “Let’s take a break.”
I wondered what was up. We sat under a big fig tree in the yard with a cool drink. We were both covered in little flecks of wood, leaves, and bark. Steve’s hair was unkempt, a couple of his shirt buttons were missing, and his shorts were torn. I thought he was the best-looking man I had ever seen in my life.
“I am not even going to walk for the next three days,” I said, laughing.
Steve turned to me. He was quiet for a moment. “So, do you want to get married?”
Casual, matter-of-fact. I nearly dropped the glass I was holding. I had twigs in my hair an dirt caked on the side of my face. I’d taken off my hat, and I could feel my hair sticking to the sides of my head.
My first thought was what a mess I must look. My second, third, and fourth thoughts were lists of every excuse in the world why I couldn’t marry Steve Irwin.
I could not possibly leave my job, my house, my wildlife work, my family, my friends, my pets--everything I had worked so hard for back in Oregon.
He never looked concerned. He simply held my gaze.
As all these things flashed through my mind, a little voice from somewhere above me spoke.
“Yes, I’d love to.”
With those four words my life changed forever.
”
”
Terri Irwin (Steve & Me)
“
It was against Ronan’s nature to appear overly interested in anything, but he couldn’t help staring at the Gray Man. It was the man from the Barns, the man who’d taken the puzzle box. He would have never put the words hit man to him. To him, a hit man was something else. A bouncer. A bodybuilder. An action hero. This wary predator was none of those things. His build was unassuming, all sly kinetics, but his eyes — Ronan was suddenly afraid of him. He was afraid of him in the same way that he was afraid of the night horrors. Because they had killed him before, and they would kill him again, and he precisely remembered the pain of each death. He felt the fear in his chest, and in his face, and in the back of his head. Sharp and stinging, like a tire iron.
Chainsaw scrambled to Ronan’s shoulder and ducked low, eyes on the Gray Man. She cawed stridently, just once.
For his part, the Gray Man stared back, his expression guarded. The longer he looked at Ronan and Chainsaw, the more his eyebrows furrowed. And the longer he looked, the closer Gansey edged to Ronan, nearly imperceptible. At some point it became the Gray Man watching the space between the two of them instead of Ronan.
”
”
Maggie Stiefvater
“
When I fight guys I only aim for the crotch!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw)
“
His words have a warning edge. As if I should be scared of him. Scared, of this man who just risked his life to save me. I wouldn’t be scared of Cole if he came into my bedroom with a chainsaw. He’d probably just be building me a bedside cabinet, or something.
”
”
Lily Gold (Three Swedish Mountain Men)
“
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve woken up in a cold sweat thinking I’m being chased by a grunting, disfigured man wielding a hatchet. Usually we're at an abandoned campground, which leads me to believe this is a subconscious mashup of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He never catches me. The only thing that ever happens is I'm running and he's chasing. It's pretty horrible. I know it’s not real, but it feels real, and you know how feelings are. They make everything real.
”
”
Anne Clendening (Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass)
“
Face it, she was out of your league. You lived in separated worlds. You'll meet a girl who's right for you eventually.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 6 [Chainsaw Man 6])
“
She froze, and he saw something working behind her eyes. Pain. He was a detective, trained to notice the tiniest nuances on a person’s face. Old pain echoed in her eyes. She hid it. “Fine. A couple of hours, and that’s it.” Oh, the detective in him wanted to know what answers she was hiding. The man in him wanted to know what drove her. Damn. Now wasn’t the time. Untangling all of Blair Mason’s layers would require weeks, and maybe a chainsaw.
”
”
Anna Hackett (Mission: Her Defense (Team 52, #4))
“
Everyone's jealous of somebody/ If I'd known, I would have had a better life... Maybe I could have had friends, or even a boyfriend. I wish... I'd tried living a little more selfishly.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 12 [Chainsaw Man 12])
“
Chainsaws can't solve all problems.
”
”
Hailey Piper (A Woman Built by Man)
“
Easy revenge!
気き楽らくに復ふく讐しゅうを!
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto
“
It’s a requiem from us to you.
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 4 [Chainsaw Man 4])
“
It’s a requiem from us to you.
— Aki Hayakawa
”
”
Tatsuki Fujimoto (チェンソーマン 5 [Chainsaw Man 5])