Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death.

Everyone,_ Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, __s the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation__ door, that they fought on the side of the angels.

It wasn__ Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn__ any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just_ what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.