34 quotes found
""Any man can transform himself into something else, something beyond reason..beyond supermen.- Michael Setzer"
""You want justice served? You want vengeance taken? You want honor restored? Then do it yourself. That's omertà. When blood cries for blood, you answer the call. And you answer it alone." - Batman: Huntress: Cry for Blood"
"(to Nightwing) "I don't want your help. I don't need your help. Now, get out of my home." - Batman: Huntress: Cry for Blood"
""There were so many flowers. My mother had been shot in the chest. Her casket was open. But my father and my brother, they'd been shot in the face, and there was no way the mortician could repair that damage. I was eight years old and my family was dead and all I thought was that people loved us. It wasn't grief that brought the flowers. It was joy." - Batman: Huntress: Cry for Blood"
""Actually - I play a little rough for Batman's taste." - Nightwing/Huntress"
""Maybe I have something to prove--to him or myself or both. Or maybe I care because I've been alone most of my life. Ever since I was a child. Alone in every kind of darkness. Hunting evil or just waiting for the dawn. It must be some kind of comfort to have a partner. Someone to trust at your back. So maybe when I see him with Robin I want to see me. He's like me--a loner--yet he and his partner somehow make a perfect team." - Batman 80 Page Giant #1"
""If there's a lesson tonight, it's that there's no room for chance in this "business." Lives depend on my being certain. Reason. Intellect. Skill. Nothing else must matter." - Batman 80 Page Giant #2"
"(To a vision of Batman) "It's...It's beautiful. Can I keep it? I won't lose it. Don't go. I want to show you what I can do. I'll make you proud. Say Something!" - Gotham Knights #38"
"(To Batman) "So, nothing condescending to say about my new costume? You weren't exactly focused the last time you saw it. You're welcome by the way." - Gotham Knights #40"
"(To an unconscious Batman) "[darn] you. Not going down. Not in front of you." - Batman: Hush"
"(Batman on Huntress) "Huntress. After all we've been through she still fights for my life. So much rage. Not sure I ever saw it...before. She's better than she knows but wastes too much energy proving it. So much like I when I started out. No wonder the others haven't accepted her..." - Batman: Hush"
""I could stop their screaming with one bolt. Wouldn't stop a ... thing. Seven days since Gotham has been left to rot like Gomorrah. We're better than that. I'm sure of it. Unfortunately, I've seen nothing to so far to support that faith." - Batman No Man's Land #0"
""I hate losing. I hate running away. I don't know what else to do. They don't fear me. Not like they fear him. Where is the Batman? He's all over me when I screw up when I don't play by his rules. "My City!" he says, never let's me forget it. So why isn't he putting the fear of... Are they roasting a bat?" - Batman No Man's Land #0"
"(On her first night as Batgirl) "Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. I didn't need to raise a fist. I didn't need to say a word. They took one look at me, one look at my shadow and they ran. No. Not my shadow. No I get it and I like it." - Batman No Man's Land #0"
"I should put this spike in his throat...he'd do it to me. He'd kill me and not blink. Kill him and not blink. Why not? In No Man's Land why...not? (sees Batsymbol reflected on the glass drops knife and lets thug go). Batman No Man's Land #0"
""I'm not even that fond of real cops. But wannabe cops... now they just tick me right off." - Birds of Prey #69"
""You guys sure you want to fire your sidearms around gas pumps? Just asking." - Birds of Prey #69"
""I was brought here at gunpoint and in cuffs, Mr. Brusaw. I don't think a hug is entirely the correct response here." - Birds of Prey #69"
""You. You ratted me out to Brushaw's fake police officers. Now was that polite?" - Birds of Prey #69"
"(upon finding Black Canary bound by tree branches) "This might take a while. I forgot my chainsaw." - Birds of Prey #76"
"(after shooting a crossbow bolt through a crooked cop's hand, Black Canary and John are staring at her) "What? He'll be fine. We're in a hospital." - Birds of Prey #80"
"Nightwing: You want to know a secret? Everyone but me thinks you're nuts, there's a secret!"
"Black Canary: Hey, how'd you know about Cheetah's healing factor?"
"Tom: I don't talk to women who wear make-up, anyway. It's unclean. So just shut up."
"Talia: And Who are you? The Detective's consort? His woman?"
"I am Promethea, the child who stands Between fixed earth and insubstantial air, a dream thought who yet treads matter's rain-swept strands, And mortals are the sandals that I wear. I am Promethea. From Mind’s pure light I stoop into Earth's dark gloom, From Fables’ day Descending into Facts’ cold weighty night, From lyric atmospheres to mammal clay. I am Promethea, the rumored one, The mythic bough that Reason strains to bend. I am that voice left, once the book is done... I am the dream that waking does not end."
"Promethea: Don't worry, some symbols always means the same thing...and the archetype of wisdom is eternal."
"Mayor Sonny Baskerville is currently stalling any investigation by demanding separate hearings for each of his forty two personalities. This is TEXTure."
"Andras: You ask alot of questions, bitch. Too bad the rules say we gotta answer 'em. Goetia means howling. It's the chittering of a billion insects in the night. It's what it sounds like where we live."
"[Opening Lines] So, it's all come down to this. Somewhere, somehow, something went wrong. My life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. I was supposed to be someone. I was supposed to make a difference. Instead, I took the easy way, the path of least resistance. Now I know how wrong that was, I can't help but wonder... "Am I too late?""
"Life was empty, meant to be endured rather than enjoyed. For years, nothing changed. I just played the role I'd been assigned, went through the motions... Then I got sick. It hit me suddenly, but hard. Every night I'd come home and puke my guts out. Every day, I'd wake up feeling just a little bit weaker. Finally, even I couldn't pretend nothing was wrong. I checked into the hospital for tests and hoped for the best. You'd think I would have known better."
"My anger bled out of me as the blackness rushed in to replace it. No sanctuary gave me comfort. Hopeless. Worthless. There was only one way out."
"The cancer growing inside would eventually kill me anyway. I accepted that, fully and completely. But that knowledge didn't depress me anymore. In fact, it liberated me, clarified everything."
"[Closing Lines] So, it's all come down to this. Somewhere, somehow, something went wrong. My life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. I was supposed to be someone. I was supposed to make a difference. And now I will... One person at a time."