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"Everyone has one. That kid you grew up with who knows you as well as your own brother. Maybe better. And then somewhere along the way, something happened. Something pushed you both in different directions." ~ Flash (Geoff Johns, Flash # 210)
"Life's a work in progress . . . It doesn't always work out the way we plan, or hope." ~ Charles Xavier (Chris Claremont, Excalibur [v2] # 1)
"There are always choices. Every choice we make defines who we are...what we are...why we are..." ~ Maker/Beyonder (Keith Giffen, Thanos # 9)
"Alas, I long ago discovered that the deepest truths of our own natures may only be revealed through experience. One cannot simply be told." ~ Sargon (Andy Diggle, Swamp Thing [v.3] # 2)
"I find myself watching a lot of sunsets. The world is changing. But the world always changes. It changes around us, it changes us...we can't stop it." ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity # 4)
"And sunsets are beautiful. Stately, graceful. A slow, majestic inevitability. Beautiful. And they're endings. There's no getting away from that. They're endings, all right." ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity # 4)
"Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of." ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity # 4)
"And that's the thing about sunsets. They're majestic, stately, lovely and inevitable. And then, a little ways to the east...it all starts over again." ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity # 4)
"My grandfather thaught me there are few things more ruinous in this world than revenge. And that to be driven by revenge is to be destroyed by it." ~ Reed Richards (Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Knights 4 # 4)
"It's odd what comes back to you. How you remember things you didn't even know you'd forgotten. Like how my grandfather once told me that when you jump out of an airplane, there's something you old onto even more tightly than your parachute. Faith. That your chute will open. That states of war are only temporary. That your efforts to do good are worth something. That sometimes a promise is all it takes to save a life. And one of the last things he said to me: 'If you ever find yourself falling, Reed--and you will, life's one big free-fall--believe that somewhere, somehow...there will be someone there to catch you.'" ~ Reed Richards (Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Knights 4 # 4)
"Maybe it's not so bad to die. Not if you leave a legacy, if you know someone'll still be fighting for what you believed in." ~ Barry Allen (Kurt Busiek, Avengers/JLA # 4)
"Whether we fear we do too much--or not enough--we keep trying." ~ Superman/Captain America (Kurt Busiek, Avengers/JLA # 4)
"Choice is the greatest gift we have. If there is a God...if there is a plan...free will is at the heart of it." ~ Superman (Kelly/Turner, Superman # 203)
"If happiness is anything, it's hard to come by." ~ Batman/narration (Brian Azzarello, Batman # 625)
"We don't do it for the glory. We don't do it for the recognition. We do it because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will. And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers that we ever existed." ~ Kara (Alan Brennert, Christmas With the Super-Heroes # 2) "How much of me comes from the fact that I'm different? That I always felt like an outsider, like I wasn't part of things?" ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity # 3)
"Things change. Sometimes the air itself is heavier, the weight of our sorrows collecting until the sky can hold no more and lets them fall as tears of rain...to return tot he world as flowers. Everything changes, sometimes in seasons...more often in sudden squalls." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 43)
"Things do always change...but sometimes...with our hard work and determination...they change for the better." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 43)
"That which can be comprehended can be countered. For every threat, no matter its size...has a flaw. The most difficult monster to tame is the panic that rises inside." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 43)
"Things change. Sometimes...they change forever." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 43)
"Holding an image of the most favorable resolution in mind keeps the course clear and strong...if not inevitable." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 44)
"Since nature is flawed, the ideal remains a notion, not a destination. perfection is unattainable at a mortal level. But the striving for it...that can be done." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 44)
"It is difficult to be an idealist in upsetting times. More painful still is leaving friends and loved ones behind to pursue a goal that may be nothing more than the stubborn insistence on making an attempt to right wrongs--ego hiding as altruism...but I am not the sort of person who can bear not to try. Which is, I find, an ideal way to live." ~ Sephie [narration] (Barbara Kesel, Meridian # 44)
"And sometimes I wish there was magic--it'd make things, I dunno...better? Weirder? More exciting? But it's like Santa Claus, isn't it? You grow up and discover there's no such thing." ~ Timothy Hunter (Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic)
"Never ask for a name. Ask instead what those you meet would like to be called. It will save you problems." ~ Dr. Occult (Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic)
"The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today..." ~ Dr. Occult (Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic)
"Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible." ~ Dr. Occult (Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic)
"That's what God's there for. When you're beaten, when you haven't an ounce of fight left in you, when you just can't hack it by yourself anymore: you turn to Jesus or you stick a fuckin' gun in your mouth." ~ Jesse Custer (Garth Ennis, Preacher: Until the End of the World)
"Really though,when it comes down to it, I'm just like everyone else [...] Going through each day one step at a time." ~ The Flash (Geoff Johns, Flash # 207)
"[T]his is what I know: Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And if you can help those people out, do it. 'Cause you never know when you're gonna be on the receiving end of the bad luck stick." ~ Hotel Manager (Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Knights 4 # 2)
"Is that it? Is that the fortune cookie answer? Love is someone who'll share your baggage, no matter what it is?" ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Secret Identity # 2)
"We strive to be what we are not. It's not merely that we fail to live up to our best ideas. It's the fact that our best ideas--ideas about who we are--what we can accomplish--are for the most, ideas that tend to be the opposite of our natural abilities." ~ Narration (A.J. Lieberman, Batman: Gotham Knights # 50)
"If mankind has one common emotion--it's fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what they cannot control." ~ Lex Luthor (Jeph Loeb, Superman/Batman # 6)
"The way I hear it, there's two good places you can look for God: in church, or at the bottom of a bottle." ~ Tulip (Garth Ennis, Preacher: Gone to Texas)
"I've got this brilliant recipe for quiche! You make the quiche, right, an' then you cook it, an' then you throw the stupid fucking thing out the window. Then you grill yourself a t-bone an' eat that instead." ~ Cassidy (Garth Ennis, Preacher: Gone to Texas)
"When you can tell your sweetheart everything an' feel good about it--that's when you know it's love." ~ Cassidy (Garth Ennis, Preacher: Gone to Texas)
"I had a lot of questions, and I didn't get any answers. But I've got my whole life to figure them out. And it'll be a private life, which is good. [...] The thing is, I like things quiet. I like to get away and think, and sort things out for myself, by myself. I don't like noise and crowds and chaos." ~ Clark Kent (Kurt Busiek, Secret Identity # 1)
"A man without fear...is a liar. Truth is, everybody's afraid of something." ~ Batman (Brian Azzarello, Batman # 622)
"Friends change...Remember that . . . Only family is forever." ~ Green Arrow (Brad Meltzer, Green Arrow: The Archer's Quest)
"When you're chasing something personal, you never start with what's easiest. You start with what's most important. So why do people lie? Some do it to protect...Others do it to control...And a few of us...Just can't bring ourselves to tell the truth." ~ Oliver Queen (Brad Meltzer, Green Arrow: The Archer's Quest)
"To shout, to struggle and fight, to endure each other's shortcomings and still love each other--to me, that's what makes a family perfect." ~Dmitri (Keith Giffen, Justice League: America # 60)
"One can love one's family . . . and still need to be apart from them." ~ J'onn J'onzz (Keith Giffen, Justice League: America # 60)
"Don't give time too lightly. You can never get it back." ~ J'onn J'onzz (Keith Giffen, Justice League: Europe # 35)
"Dawn. For an optimist, it's the start of a new day. For a pessimist? Same thing." ~ Batman (Brian Azzarello, Batman # 621)
"You gonna fight by the rules...ya might want to let the rest of us know what the hell they are!" ~ Killer Croc (Brian Azzarello, Batman # 621)
"You cannot be held responsible for your entire race." ~ San (Sean McKeever, Inhumans # 7)
"This is why it is so important to think only thoughts of light. Dark thoughts, too, take on their own reality, and once created it is impossible to uncreate them." ~ Silver Surfer (Dan Chariton/Stacy Weiss, Silver Surfer # 3)
"You must grow. Change. Be unpredictable. Unexpected. Unknowable. The serpent sheds its skin and it is reborn. And that is a good thing, no?" ~ Bane (Scott Beatty, Batman: Gotham Knights # 47)
"I am a man of my word if nothing else." ~ Bane (Scott Beatty, Batman: Gotham Knights # 47)
"It doesn't seem fair, does it? You give your all and they just put you on the shelf." ~ Barbara Gordon (Scott Beatty/Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One)
"Sometimes even the best people will do terrible things to protect their secrets . . ." ~ Xavier (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 2)
"In a world without values or morality, good and evil are just choices on the menu of the mighty . . ." ~ Cassandra Nova (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 1)
"They say people can commit any atrocity given the right excuse." ~ Trask (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 1)
"All of us, humans and mutant, have to spend the rest of our lives in the future. Let's get together and make it a nice place to live." ~ Jean Grey-Summers (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 1)
"Sometimes you just don't know how bad you feel until the feeling's gone..." ~ Scott Summers (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 1)
"Sometimes the idea of the monster is more real than the monster itself, if you see what I mean." ~ Xavier (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 2)
"I can't help wondering...I wonder if we have any control over our destinies, or if we are just biomass manipulated by an intelligent evolutionary process itself." ~ Xavier (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 2)
"Humans may not have special extra senses, but they're very skilled manipulators and they know how to make weapons." ~ Fantomex (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 2)
"Have you any idea what happens inside when you find out you're not the person you thought you were?" ~ ?_____? (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 2)
"We are the heat and the light in the forest. See? Without us, this is only a place. With us, it becomes an adventure." ~ Xorn (Grant Morrison, New X-Men HC vol. 2)
"You can't change the past. What's done is done! The best we can ever do is try to make a better future!" ~ Martha Kent (Roger Stern, Action Comics Annual # 3 [1991])
"...Guess when you get older, you wanna take the time to see what's around you..." ~ Casey Jones (Kevin Eastman/Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 55)
"I would gladly die for him...but I don't know if I can give him my life." ~ Leonardo (Kevin Eastman/Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 58)
"Is it really that simple . . . ? Is life jsut black and white?" ~ Leonardo (Kevin Eastman/Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 58)
"Ah...once more, the universe allows a glimpse...of its myriad wonders...its imponderable mysteries! Yet, it is ever so...from life, death...and from death...life!" ~ Splinter (Kevin Eastman/Peter Laird, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 59)
"Oh, I see. Higher rights. You use that rhetoric to justify this country's international policies to back wars which violate every human right." ~ Colossus (Ann Nocenti, Colossus: God's Country)
"It's hard to know when the things you fight for go sour." ~ Number Six (Ann Nocenti, Colossus: God's Country)
"We all have beliefs. We believe so hard, we pack muscle behind those beliefs." ~ Colossus (Ann Nocenti, Colossus: God's Country)
"Is the wolf evil when it culls the sickness from the herd?" ~ Nightcrawler (Greg Rucka, Wolverine [v.2] # 6)
"No one has a line and no one has a soddin' moral code either, outside a John Wayne movie." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"It's just the way of it, Son. We all sell our souls sooner or later." ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"If it is indeed the Lord who picks our friends for us, then I owe the Almighty a debt beyond imagining." ~ (Father?) Ricky (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"I don't want it. I don't want sorry, I don't want just friends--No! It's just bollocks, that's what it is!" ~ John Constantine (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"To live in light you must understand the darkness; the reverse is also true." ~ First of the Fallen (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"Offer a choice and nine out of ten people will instantly make the wrong one." ~ First of the Fallen (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"Well, if you put all your energy into dodging someone for long enough, sooner or later you'll run right into them." ~ First of the Fallen (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell)
"Aye, which is how you know people are really gettin' used to somethin'--they laugh at it." ~ Kit (Garth Ennis, Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell) |
