Quotes from Ed Brubaker

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.

Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better.

I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

The world went insane before I did, I'm just adapting to the new reality.

it wore him down, knowing how small he was... how insignificant he was to the things in the shadows... it wore him down until there was so little left in him... that he almost forgot who he really was.

Revenge. That's what he had come for... But it didn't really exist, did it? Just empty regret and bitter heartbreak, wandering the streets. The city around him, white and grey and cold, felt suddenly so small. Hyde had been right about family, there was no escaping it... Even when there was no one left to run from.

A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.

Wealth wants to be able to do whatever the fuck it wants to... And it's winning the war.

He was broken from the start. And this stupid world took what was left of him and ground it into sand.

I prefer to control my brain's dopamine reactions myself. Not be at the mercy of... butterflies.

Sometimes when I'm writing a superhero story I wonder if they really have to punch each other in the face. Is that really going to solve anything? I feel the same way sometimes when I watch episodes of Law & Order. I'm like, "Yeah, right. You found the sex offender and now everything is fine." TV is big on closure, but I think closure is horseshit in real life. I'm still haunted by stuff I did in my teen years when I think about it too much.

I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

Sometimes I think if you didn't have me, there wouldn't be a single person in the world who really understood you...

I've never been much for tears, anyway.

Charlie had always been a sucker for this part... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you... truly understands you... to your soul... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself.

We weren't heroes. We were killers. That's the reason we survived so long… Because this world belongs to monsters...It shouldn't.

During the Cold War, there was a theory. That one agent, in the right place, at the right time...with the right skills...could be more effective than an army.

Like I said, she always amazes me.

Midnighter: I told you this wasn't going to end well... Bendix: ...but...I did what you...what the Authority...never could...fixed earth... Midnighter: No. You just gave them peace through corporate control and ignorance... through mindless consumerism. Bendix: Bulls*%t! The air is clean...no wars...people are happier...you can't deny...it's a finer world.

There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can't be. This is just a dream we're having. While all our friends sleep.

Captain America: Damn you, you fool! Hasn't there been enough death today? Colonel Karpov: You do not understand...you cannot. You and the Germans, you have your super-soldiers...your secret weapons...But we Russians...we have nothing but our winter.

Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he'd been trained to do… and he was highly trained.

And she thinks she is the lucky one because she got to escape

And before it was over, Tracy did get the answers he wanted, and a few he didn't. But it seemed to him that was just the nature of answers.