Clare > Clare's Quotes

“The exercise of deciding where to go next is difficult. Because next most likely means a new forever.”
― Gerogia Hunter

“Equating intelligence with the desire to live”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

“I don't know if I can do it. Even if I can forgive myself, this is what I am now. And you'll never know who I was before.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“I don't have a home. A home is a distraction. In my work, one cannot have distractions. I wouldn't necessarily know a home if I had one, though.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“But who can I trust? Because I don't know if I can do this by myself.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“It takes so much effort to get close to someone. To navigate those finely woven threads of doubt and trust. But sometimes... sometimes you need someone else.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow #6

“That's the sort of predator I am. A conflicted one, a deadly one, one alone. And you can't change my nature.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“I want answers. I'm sick of swimming in the ink. Sick of feeling like there's this avalanche about to crush me and I can't even see the mountain.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“Lately, I've felt more like a soldier than a spy. And if that's what the world is asking for, I'm happy to oblige.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“I've only ever been good at one thing. Lots of skills but one thing. I did that thing for bad. I do that thing for good. There's nothing I'm afraid of, save that one thing. That someone might take the good away. If you take that away, I don't know what I will do. I don't know who I will become. That's why I have to stay alone. That's why I stay in the shadows.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“My instinct is to run away. To flee to the shadows, out of sight, out of the public eye. I'm a Black Widow after all. But people depend on me now. That's why I can't simply flee.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“Autumn evokes nostalgia. Leaves like fire and blood. I don't like nostalgia. But the past doesn't feel far away.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“I am exceptional. I am the exception. I do not belong. Not in S.H.I.E.L.D, not in the Avengers. The world may not have a place for me. I can only trust myself.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“It's the warmest I've been in a long time. Up here it's warm. Like the summertime. Like the summertimes with my parents. Good times. That's how it could have been, anyway.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“I might have enjoyed company. But that would mean letting someone get close. And if I let someone get close, they might find out who I really am. And no one will ever know my full story. No one.”
― Nathan Edmondson, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread

“When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone. You reap what you sow. Death is the debt we all pay for life. Faced with our own deaths, some live harder, hoping to escape and delay the inevitable, fearful of what's on the other side. When death comes, all we can hope for is that it comes with the peace and dignity befitting how we lived our lives.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“From the way a person holds themselves, how they walk, and talk, little gestures reveal sensitivities to abuses suffered long ago. You can hear a person's whole life story without them ever even saying a word.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“I've been taken apart, reassembled, and put back on the battlefield more times than I even know. No more false memories, no more being a weapon for others. I now fight only for me.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“It's time for you to forgive yourself. The past can be an ugly place and I cannot recommend you live there. It doesn't matter how our story started. It's up to us how it's going to end.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“People need you. You might not feel it, but they do. The world needs you. You're not anyone's tool or pawn. You are in control of what happens now. I'll always be there if you need me.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“I don't need a weapon. I am a weapon.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“I retreat into my memories. I remember everything. After all of this, I am still me. Who I am cannot be destroyed. I have survived far worse than this. His words are irrelevant. I have been here many times before. The pain reminds me that I'm alive. I am not afraid, but as I think of what's been done to me, taken from me, a rage begins to burn in the pit of my stomach. I am through being a plaything, a pawn. I was made in a place like this. I will not die here. I remember. I thrive. I am the Black Widow. And even death cannot take that away from me.”
― Sylvia Soska, Black Widow: No Restraints Play

“I'm one of 28 young ballerinas with Bolshoi. The training is tough but the glory of Soviet culture and the warmth of my parents...my parents makes up for...no, no that's not right. I'm one of 28 Black Widow agents with the Red Room, the training is hard but the glory of Soviet supremacy and the warmth of my parents, all of my parents....”
― Richard Morgan

“Time stops. Time stands still. The wheel stops spinning, your gamble fails, the numbers went against you after all. You lose.”
― Richard Morgan

“All the time you knew that sooner or later it would come to this. No one plays forever, and there's only one way they let you cash out. but you always thought you would die alone.”
― Richard Morgan

“I was a spy. I was trusted. Until I changed sides. Funny how that happens. I gave up one country for another. One country for an ideal. I didn't think of it that way at the time. Call me crazy. But I just wanted to be free.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose

“You always knew what you had to do. No one ever told you. You had the resolve even then. Nor were you afraid of the dark or what waited for you there. But sometimes, I wish you had been.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose

“You must always have a safe place to go. That is the first thing you learn. Though you should know that by instinct, before anyone has to teach you. It isn't just spies that need to run. Good times don't last forever.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose

“I should have known this would happen. But I got happy, and soft. I forgot that secrets never keep.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose

“I have hunted for less. I have killed for less. But never with as much pleasure.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Name of the Rose