Gail Simone > Quotes

“If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to end a war, you call Wonder Woman.”
― Gail Simone

“I'm not Barbara Gordon. I have to keep remembering that. Tonight, I'm not Barbara. Tonight, I'm not the Police Commissioner's daughter.
Tonight, I'm the one who pored over the details of the confidential police and reports when her dad wasn't looking.
I'm the one who recognized the vintage costumes you wear.
Tonight?
Tonight, I'm Batgirl.”
― Gail Simone

“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it”.”
― Gail Simone, Wonder Woman #600

“If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter.”
― Gail Simone

“If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.”
― Gail Simone, Wonder Woman, Vol. 3: The Circle

“We used to chase each other like this. Two kids flirting in a way only a handful of people on Earth could ever match. He with his acrobatics, and me with my ballet.”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“Revenge never heals what's broken.”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl, Volume 1: The Darkest Reflection

“Huh. Redheads. What is it about redheads?”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“I struck out at the people who love me. Because I wanted understanding more than pity. Because I wanted respect more than comfort.”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“And he was the first crush I ever had that wasn't a scientist-- it's a different thing altogether. It made me a little peeved at myself, to be honest. Half the girls in Gotham City would have been happy just touching his jacket. I didn't want it to happen. But I'm human, all right? And for a while, we were better than kids with a crush. We were actually friends.”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“Keep Faith
Trust to Love
Fight with Honor
But fight to win”
― Gail Simone, Wonder Woman, Vol. 3: The Circle

“You look at me with eyes that see only honor and gallantry. The truth is darker yet. Being Sonja means being called to darkness and pain. And knowing that you have the power to alter and take the lives of many. A great many. And praying to the gods that you always choose the right side.”
― Gail Simone, Red Sonja, Vol. 1: Queen of Plagues

“Dear Miss Tremor. You are smart and kind and pretty. I think you have really excellent stuff under your clothes and I would like to see it, please. Let's go on a date and get married and you can be my rodent queen in my castle in the sewer. Love always and forever, --Mouse. P.S. I am sorry my rats ate some of your candy.”
― Gail Simone, The Movement, Vol. 2: Fighting for the Future

“All my life, I've had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn't need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I'll send their eyes back blackened.”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl (2011-2016) #3

“For a moment...for a moment. We are eternal. We are every warrior forced to kill and die for a cause no one will remember in years to come. Every adversary who ever felt blade cleave into bone. Every crimson-stained fighter who died for nothing. I imagine the first beings left here by the gods died thus. And when the sun sets on our race, the last two men will have their brothers' blood on their blades.”
― Gail Simone, Red Sonja, Vol. 1: Queen of Plagues

“At night the pigeons lose their feathers and become rats !”
― Gail Simone, Plastic Man (2018) #2

“He was cocky. It would have been easy not to like him. But he was also kind, and that excused much. Kind, and...a little bit sad, somehow. I didn't understand that about him back then. But we were just kids.”
― Gail Simone, Batgirl (2011-2016) #3