Comic Book Quotes

Dream: You say dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar... ask yourselves, all of you... what power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?
Silently, they move aside, unable to meet my gaze. And walking steadily, my helm by my side, I take my leave of Hell.
Lucifer: One day, my brothers.... One day I shall destroy him.
--Neil Gaiman, Sandman #4, "A Hope in Hell"

Good lord! You wear a two-handed sword! You know, some say swords are phallic symbols representative of their owners! Mine is long and needle-like! Nyar!
--Drew Hayes, Poison Elves (Mulehide) #20, "Lord of the Lilacs"

I'm too tall. Too dark. Too wet. I'm too weird to be a tourist and not weird enough to be an employee.
--Carla Speed McNeil, Finder #17

Sergeant Jones... do you have a lover?.... I used to. She was fine and terrible and beautiful, but she died. Listen... do you hear those sirens? They're for her.
--Alan Moore, The Ballad of Halo Jones #12, "The Fast Forward War"

Witness: Come to kill me? Judge me? Set me free?
Bishop: I -
Witness: "I discovered the Xavier Sanctum!" No secrets from me, pup. King of secrets, me.
Bishop: But I have -
Witness: "But I have evidence that suggests they were murdered... by another X-Man!" Knew it. Saw it. What of it?
Bishop: How do we -
Witness: "How do we know the traitor was ever caught... ever brought to justice?" You don't know. Never know.
--Jim Lee and Scott Lobdell, Uncanny X-Men # 287, "Bishop to King's Five"

Barbie: Alvin? That's your real name?
Wanda: Wanda's my real name, Barbie-baby. Alvin's just the name I was born with.
--Neil Gaiman, Sandman #32, "Slaughter on Fifth Avenue"

Lynne: I've got one.
Jaeger: Go, Lynne.
Lynne: Why are you so sure you'd have died in prison?
Jaeger: Rachel's second question was better.
Lynne: Break my heart.
Jaeger: Just keep in mind; if you always ask the question that's burning a hole in you, you give away a lot. You'll never make an info-trader that way.
Lynne: Eww, Mr Cryptic. You're still stalling.
Jaeger: I'm half skin.
Lynne: And all bullshit. Keep it going.
Jaeger: No, "skins" are what my mother's people call themselves when speaking to people like yourself. Their skin is brown.... You lock up skins; they die.
Lynne: So you had to follow suit to prove you're one of them, is that it?
Jaeger: Now you're gettin' nasty.
Lynne: No, you didn't answer my question. Why do they die?
Jaeger: Have you ever been locked up?
Lynne: You know we have. By our beloved breadwinner Brigham.
Rachel: Ly-ynne!
Jaeger: Then you should not have to ask that question. Think how it was. Then tell me it wouldn't have killed you.
--Carla Speed McNeil, Finder #8

And for the one who fought hardest to preserve "the Way" - yet, with an arrow, changed his world forever - there is no song but silence.
--Wendy and Richard Pini, Elfquest: Siege at Blue Mountain #8

King of the Vampires: You seem very sure of yourself, you little mortal bastard, so I'll tell you what... if you can tell me why your ordinary, piss-boring life is better than mine, you can walk out of here alive. If you can't, I'll cut your throat and drink my fill and leave you half-alive forever.
Constantine: Easy. Can you go for a walk in the park and hear the birds sing in the morning? Can you kiss a girl and know she loves you? Can you go out and get pissed with your mates? I can.
And just so we're sure who's better off, why don't we sit here together and watch the sun come up in an hour or so?
Well?
--Garth Ennis, Hellblazer #50, "Remarkable Lives"

Death: I've met a lot of kings, and emperors and heads of state in my time, Joshua. I've met them all. And you know something? I think I liked you best.
Norton: Well... thank you, young lady.
Death: It's a great hat. Can I try it on?
Norton: I do not see why not. I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Death: Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.
--Neil Gaiman, Sandman #31, "Three Septembers and a January"

Jace: Dammit, I just have this feeling!
Luse: Stuff some snow down your pants, then!
--Drew Hayes, Poison Elves (Mulehide) #19, "The Gypsy and the Troll"

So, you want evidence? Oh. Okay.... There! I've put my glamour on. What a handsome lad am I. And don't call me a fairy, you assholes. Or I'll change back into a horse and kick the shit out of you.
--Colleen Doran, A Distant Soil #16

Cluracan: But if I do not comply, 'tis banishment for certain. And so... I sit here, and procrastinate....
Nemesis: Brother, I do not share your nature.
Cluracan: So... you prefer women, then?
Nemesis: I do.
Cluracan: Ah, well. It takes all sorts, so they say, and I'm a broadminded soul. 'Tis a waste of a handsome face, mind....
--Peter Hogan, The Dreaming #16, "Ice"

Foxglove: What are you laughing about?... I said I didn't think I loved you....
Hazel: I know. And you followed me into death, because I needed you. What do you think love is?
--Neil Gaiman, Death: The Time of Your Life #3

Jace: I tend to see it as coffeehouse intellectualizing myself, but no more than your needle-lik -
Purple Marauder: Silence! You confuse the Purple Marauder's brain with subtle but stinging sarcasm that he cannot understand!!!
Jace: Hey! I wasn't - !
Marauder: Enough!!! You insult me with your riddles!
Jace: "Riddles!?!" I'm not telling riddles, you fuc -
*Spit!*
Jace: You spat on me!
Marauder: It is my secret weapon!
--Drew Hayes, Poison Elves (Mulehide) #20, "Lord of the Lilacs"

Writing, Sergeant Jones? How very extraordinary. Only one being in a thousand still writes, did you know that?
--Alan Moore, The Ballad of Halo Jones #12, "The Fast-Forward War"

But I was a mess, and I'd stayed six months instead of six weeks as I'd planned. Felt like time to do something else. I found myself close to the northern foothills and something said "Go see Emma" so I went.
--Carla Speed McNeil, Finder #1

"Hullo London."
"Hullo John Constantine."
"How are you then, London?"
"All right. Full of people. Raining. You?"
"Aah, not bad. It's almost lunchtime, so I'm heading into town for the breakfast."
"Good idea, John."
"Thank you, London."
--Neil Gaiman, Sandman #3, "Dream a Little Dream of Me"

Fanny: We're going to dance for you.
Harlequin: Dance? Why should your dancing entertain us?
Fanny: Because we're the best! Because you can tell all your friends that you sat on your toilet and watched Brazil's most gorgeous transvestite bruja and the coolest little shit from Liverpool dance their asses off while you took a crap - or whatever it is you think you're doing.
...We're the same, darling Jack. You and me. Poor. Shit-eating poor. The poor are the best dancers in the world.
Jack: Yeah. When you put it like that. You're all right, Fanny. For a fella in a dress and all that. You're all right.
Fanny: So some "fucking poofs" are all right now? It's a start.
Jack: I said they're all right, man! I'm a fucking space cadet, all right? I said they're all right. I don't wanna be one.
Fanny: Who's asking you to be one? Jack, I like you but you're not my type.
Jack: ...So what's the matter with me?
--Grant Morrison, The Invisibles vol 2 #7, "The Sound of the Atom Splitting"

Hannah: Orson! Look! Look! Look! Look at all the snow that's piling up! Do you know what that means?
Orson: Donner, party of five?
--Jill Thompson, Scary Godmother Holiday Spooktacular

Shade: Oh look, a full moon. Moon, I worship thee!
Roger: Shade? Shade, you can't just go like this. The angels have allowed you to be reborn for a purpose.
Shade: I've been reborn as a porpoise? Don't be so absurd, Roger. Get a grip. I think I'll make love to the earth, as a little thank you for having me back.
Roger: You're not serious.
Shade: That's right, Roger. I'm not serious. Which is why I'm going to offer good Mother Earth a gift of my no doubt copious seed. I won't be the first to do it. There are precedents. I believe ancient humans couldn't get enough of her. Fertility rites and so on. You can turn your head if it upsets you.
Roger: It doesn't upset me. Nothing upsets me. But this complicates things. Your time in the Area... has obviously left you quite insane.
--Peter Milligan, Shade, the Changing Man #33, "Birth Pains part 1"

Apart from Mr Van Hellemond's "Mm" "mm-HM" "mmHM" you could hear a pin drop.
*ting*
"You dropped your pin."
"Well, shit!"
--Dave Sim, Cerebus #267, "If Five-Bar Gate Be My Destiny"

Chiriko: I heard a sound like the squeal of a terrifed cross-dresser!
Nuriko: That would be me, thanks.
--Yu Watase, Fushigi Yuugi chapt. 30, "A Duel Without Mercy"

Death: He's not my friend. He's my brother. And he's an idiot!
Dream: Just feeding the birds....
--Neil Gaiman, Sandman #8, "The Sound of Her Wings"