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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“My advice is, if he’s worried about his reputation, don’t rape anyone.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“A classic trait of girlhood - forever confusing your desires with that of an older man's.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“I'm not talking about killing Cobblepot and Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent... I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.”
― Judd Winick, Batman: Under the Red Hood

“Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??!
Is he still alive!!??”
― Judd Winick, Batman: Under the Red Hood

“I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.”
― Jim Starlin, Batman: The Cult

“The first Amazon is born from the vessel of Demeter.

Are you surprised? Had you heard she was Athena's?

We are warriors, after all, and the history of men does prefer a tidy narrative.

But no, sister. The first is born to the Goddess of the Harvest.

For it is Demeter who ensures that man reaps what he sows.”
― Kelly Sue DeConnick, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History