More Disco Elysium Quotes

INLAND EMPIRE - In the still mirror of the bay you see Martinaise, reflected. Tall edifices of ruins reach into the water, like shimmering towers. And the shacks too. Pine trees and motor lorries, upside down...

INLAND EMPIRE - I wonder how long has it been since you last hugged someone?

YOU - "Wait, what kind of name is 'Harrier'?

KIM KITSURAGI - "It's a wartime name. Revolutionary. The kind mothers give their sons during troubled times. Like 'Undying' or 'Boxer' or 'Ironhide'."

ENDURANCE - It's meant to keep you safe.

DAMAGED LEDGER — Two octopuses are smiling, reaching their tentacles toward each other in the coloured pencil drawings. The tickets permit access to a zoo in Revachol East. The aquarium costs extra -- they let you go there too. You should go and kill yourself there.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - The neon sign glistens in the morning light: WHIRLING-IN-RAGS

LIMBIC SYSTEM - Your eyelids flutter open for a moment. When you close them again, you sense the light of the room around you -- you're back. In two seconds the alarm will ring.

YOU - "Okay, but I *still* want to know when real democracy is coming." COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - "Of course. While the content of individual contingency spreads is deeply classified, many degrees beyond our access, everything we have heard from the Provisional Commission indicates that the transition is proceeding according to the appropriate timetable." YOU - "But what if some people want democracy to come *faster*?" COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - "That is extremely admirable. Of course, the Coalition supports the Revacholian people's desire for full democracy. We encourage you to contact the offices of the Provisional Commission if you are serious about getting involved." YOU - "But what if I want real democracy, like, *right* now?" COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - "Well, that isn't very realistic, is it?"

DOLORES DEI - "I was in Mirova already. Safe. In the warmth of the night. Wrapped in my future love. There, I think of you less and less, whole weeks go by without me remembering you..."

MIRROR - Don't be scared. It's only your face. It's not like anyone is going to *see* it.

YOU - "Communism is a murder investigation, Kim. It's about understanding whose bootheel killed the human spirit."

ACELE - "You don't get to choose your posse, they choose you. Mine are idiots, but they're mine."

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE
ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE
IT IS TOO LATE FOR US

WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

PALEDRIVER - "Where do you want me to go? This isn't so bad. I can listen to music, or the seagulls. Look at all the colours and the features of this world. It's a good palate-cleanser, this jamboree..."

YOU - "Yes, my copotype is unbelievably rare."

KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - "Wow, there are *copotypes*..." Vapour rises from the coffee cup in her hand.

KIM KITSURAGI - "I can assure you -- there really, really are *not*."

YOU - "You're still up?"

WASHERWOMAN - "Yes. I can't really sleep anymore. Only a few hours a night. It happens when you grow older..." She sloshes the water in the bucket around for a bit.

CUNO - "Cuno doesn't give a shit about your handicap. Get a wheelchair or something. Cuno doesn't care."

SUGGESTION - It's tough to tell, but he actually does... a little. He tilts his head to the right, reassessing you in the light of your bad ass learning disability.

YOU - "The great skua was the first bird they saw?"

JOYCE MESSIER - "The first living, autonomous organism. Proof of reality. It's the symbol of Insulinde, detective, the coat-of-arms of the Suzerain and the wings on the crest of the Commune."

CONCEPTUALIZATION - Jerry is a cool name.

YOU - "It's hyper hard core."

NOID - "We can all hear it's not hyper hard core. If figures of authority keep telling us things are hyper, when they're clearly not -- how are we ever supposed to evolve to hyperdom?"

EMPATHY - It's always that way. Beneath the crust of irony there's a molten sincerity that threatens to erupt forth… You may witness it yet.

SAVOIR FAIRE - It's not that the boundary between sarcasm and sincerity is porous with these two, it's that they actually seem to *overlap*, as though one is meant to conceal the other.

YOU - What does communism smell like?

RHETORIC - Failure.

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM - "A state that has lost the faith of its people has forfeited the right to exist."

YOU - Wait, but what if the people stop believing and the buildings collapse?

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM - In the corner of one of the reproduced notebook pages, you can make out the following words written in Nilsen's distinctive slashing script…

YOU - Meaning the buildings stay up because people believe they'll stay up?

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM - Precisely. Nilsen observed that the financial system operates on the same principle of faith, so why not an architectural system?

A BRIEF LOOK AT INFRA-MATERIALISM - In some of his later writings, Nilsen himself speculated about the potential for an *extra-physical architecture* that disregards the laws of 'bourgeois physics' and instead relies on the revolutionary faith of the people for structural integrity.

YOU - "Something is bad," point to your head, "in my head. In the past."

KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - "That's where it always comes from, isn't it? From the head -- and from the past."

YOU - What can I do?

VOLITION - There's nothing you can do about it. You are how you are -- and she is how she is. Things will go as they do.

JOYCE MESSIER - "One last thing, Lieutenant Du Bois." She starts the engine. "I've given the matter much thought and come to this conclusion: You're not an amnesiac. You're *insane*."

JOYCE MESSIER - "I know -- because I, too, am insane. I just hide my illness better. And I'm rich."

ENDURANCE - You're thirsty. Reach for the glass of water by the bed. The world is still there.