“He was trying to buy more sand for his hourglass.“Soon you’d find out lady luck was really a hooker, and you’re fresh out of cash.”.Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second…” Your whole life flashes by in front of you, heartbreak and scars. When you’re looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. “Einstein was right, time is relative to the observer.You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself.” “Your past is like pieces of a broken mirror.“When you’re stuck in a foreign country and don’t know the words for “reverse charges” and you’re in some lonely skin joint in the middle of some poor slum and just had every last cent robbed from you and you call yourself a bodyguard then you know you’re a loser.”.“The trouble with wanting something is the fear of losing it, or never getting it.“Sure, trouble finds us the way you found me, slumped in a bar, drunk on self-pity.”.“Haven’t you figured it out?!? I DON’T SPEAK YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE!!!”.Here I was about to execute this poor bastard like some dime store angel of death and I realized they were correct, I wouldn’t know right from wrong if one of them was helping the poor and the other was banging my sister…” You buy yourself a product and you get what you pay for, and these chumps had paid for some angry gringo without the sensibilities to know right from wrong. Say what you want about Americans but we understand capitalism. Well, that’s what they had paid for, so in the end that’s what they got. Some rent-a-clown with a gun who puts holes in other bad guys. “So I guess I’d become what they wanted me to be, a killer.To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back three years. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. It would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.” If you had done something differently, it wouldn’t be you. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask ‘Why me?’ and ‘What if?’. “You piece together a jigsaw and the final picture is you finishing that same puzzle, a mad green-eyed killer standing behind you.“I don’t know about angels, but it’s fear that gives men wings.”.Here are some of the quotes from the series, that only show what an interesting character he was, but also how well-written our anti-hero was. Throughout his detective career, Max was philosophical and mostly existential. He has seen it all from loss of his child, his wife, to the loss of the assassin whom he loved. Max Payne is one of the most iconic characters to ever have been created in video game history.
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