bioshock-series

"Robert: And you view this as a positive?"

"Change. That's what the people need. But sometimes I feel all I have to offer them is blood and fire. The things they done to me… I can't forget 'em. I was Columbia's victim -- and victimhood begets shame. Oh, what element of human experience is more corrosive than shame? I'm rotted from the inside out. What do I have to offer this revolution except my own dark motivations? When all is said and done, what's more important to me: the people I want to save -- or those I want to murder in their beds?"

"Rosalind: And needed where we are."

"Rosalind: He's authentically homicidal."

"A theory: we are scattered amongst the possibility space. But my brother and I are together, and so, I am content. He is not. The business with the girl lies unresolved. But perhaps there is one who can finish it in our stead."

"Who is this Prophet? Who is this fraud, this charlatan, this salesman of snake oil?"

"It's another world. Another Columbia."

"Robert: We are where we are needed."

"Rosalind: Hmph. I feel dirty sharing a universe with the man."

"Robert: I don't suppose there's much about the man that's authentic."

"When I was a girl, I dreamt of standing in a room looking at a girl who was and was not myself, who stood looking at another girl, who also was and was not myself. My mother took this for a nightmare. I saw it as the beginning of a career in physics."

"This evening, on my way back from supper, my theory became reality: a spontaneous Tear had opened in the Market District, emitting both sights and sounds. I observed what I could only imagine to be some future version of Columbia. Though familiar, strange red flags with a small yellow icon flew from her rooftops. Although we can lock up the girl, it appears her powers will not be imprisoned so easily."

"To tax the black more than the white, is that not cruel? To forbid the mixing of the races, is that not cruel? To give the vote to the white man, and deny it to the yellow, the black, the red -- is that not cruel? Hm. But is it not cruel to banish your children from a perfect garden? Or drown your flock under an ocean of water? Cruelty can be instructive, and what is Columbia, if not the schoolhouse of the Lord?"

"When I first seen Columbia, that sky was the brightest, bluest sky that ever was. Seemed like…Heaven. Then your eyes adjusted to the light and you saw that sea of white faces lookin' hard back at you…"

"One thing I've learned: if you don't draw first, you don't get to draw at all."

"There’s always a man, always a city, always a lighthouse."

"If the mind will not yield, then you must expose the mind to every version of itself. Either the mind will yield, or be reduced to a blank."

"I am here to finish my father's work. As he baptized me with water, I shall baptize the Sodom Below with fire...and prepare for the coming of the Lord."

"Robert: Surely it's better to have died trying."

"Robert: That's surprising, I'd imagine he'd be right up your street."

"Robert: You both see the world through a lens of science."

"Rosalind: I would, but I don't suppose she's in any position to answer."

"Rosalind: Or your ammunition."

"I had trapped the atom in mid-air. Colleagues called my Lutece Field “Quantum Levitation”, but in fact, it was nothing of the sort. Magicians levitate. My atom simply failed to fall. If an atom could be suspended indefinitely, well -- why not an apple? If an apple, why not a city?"

"Hopes, like quantum superpositions, have a tendency to collapse."

"A middle C vibrates at 262 Hz, no matter what the universe."

"The Lord forgives everything. But I'm just a prophet… so I don't have to. Amen."

"And when I came to Washington, there were few in Congress who saw my vision for Columbia. But it is the burden of the Prophet to bring the wicked to righteousness. For what am I, if not a mirror to reflect the face of God?"

"Love the Prophet, because he loves the sinner. Love the sinner, because he is you. Without the sinner, what need is there for a redeemer? Without sin, what grace has forgiveness?"

"There's already a fight, DeWitt. Only question is, which side you on? Comstock is the god of the white man, the rich man, the pitiless man. But if you believe in common folk, then join the Vox. If you believe in the righteous folk, then join the Vox."

"[If player chooses to throw at announcer during the stoning of an interracial couple] I got something for you, you son of a bitch."

"”Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt", that was the deal. The details elude me now. But the details wouldn't change a goddamn thing."

"[when throwing supplies to the player] Booker, catch!"

"Booker, if the Vox get their weapons, there's going to be a revolution just like Les Misérables!"

"There's a world of difference between what we see, and what is."

"My children are without blame, without fault -- and without choice."

"It wasn't the torture that broke me. It wasn't the indoctrination. It was time. Time rots everything, Booker. Even hope."

"Some men dream of money, some men dream of love. My father dreamt of a flood of fire. We were given Eden, and we turned it into Sodom."

"Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt!"

"Rosalind: The Universe does not grade on a curve. It's strictly pass/fail."

"Rosalind: Better trying not to die."

"Rosalind: A disagreeable fellow, this Suchong."

"Robert: How poorly we see our own traits in others."

"Rosalind: What do you mean?"

"Rosalind: "And what's wrong with that?"

"Robert: Ask young Ms. Comstock."

"Rosalind: Well, one has to start somewhere."

"Robert: You'll find the going tough enough without squandering your friends."

"The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist…"

"What is the most admirable creature on God's green Earth? Why, it's the bee! Have you ever seen a bee on vacation? Have you ever seen a bee take a sick day? Well, my friends, the answer is no! So I say, be… the bee! Be the bee!"