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Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Alice in wonderland
“Many people have died for their beliefs…The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.” - Brom
"It’s overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion, a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen, I know, but always to someone else, always in some far-off place and time. But I found your egg, was tutored by a Rider, and dueled a Shade — those can't be the actions of the farm boy I am, or was. Something is changing me." - Eragon, to Saphira
“ Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.” - Batman
“I hardly knew my parents as people. But suddenly I knew the world. It was hard and cold and dark and lawless. Its face was fierce and beastial. The only face I had with which to glare back at it… was utterly inadequate.”
“There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us… you blinked.”
"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell."
“Imagine a sea of tonal reds. The color of anger… of rage… but also the color of the heart… of love… hope. This strikes the perfect balance between the two.”
“Everything doesn't have to be about fear. There’s room in our line of work for hope, too.” - Stephanie Brown
“A guy asked me a question the other day… about why people run when things get tough. That's easy – you can become someone else, wherever you land, right? Who’s gonna know the difference? So why stay? Why set yourself up for more failure? For more pain? Also easy – because we don’t know how to do anything else. So why stay? Why open yourself up to all the bad you’ve tried to leave behind? “The only variable you can control is yourself.” You can forget who you are, or you can be who you want to be. That's why you stay. You stay for a second chance.” - Stephanie Brown
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“No harmony or integration. No speed or grace. My body knows what to do, but it’s forgotten how…Got to pull my mind away from the end of my goal… stop thinking and exist for the moment, in the here and now. Relax and take each step in its time…Learn to absorb acceptable and necessary losses – to achieve every available gain… and to prevail, even poorly… but at least to prevail.” - Bruce Wayne; after recovering from his fight with Bane
go-the-8th-mile reblogged
“Show a man what he expects to see, and he won’t look beneath the surface.” - Catwoman
“That’s what you have to hold on to. All of us are what we are because we lost something we thought we couldn’t live without, and were proven wrong. We can survive without parents and without walking and even without always being able to protect the people we love. But we can't survive without knowing in our bones that we’re not like them, not like the ones who stole from us.”
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“Vengeance blackens the soul, Bruce. I’ve always feared that you would become that which you fought against. You walk the edge of that abyss every night, but you haven’t fallen in and I thank heaven for that.” - Alfred
“I decided early that I would never take a life. Right around the time I decided that I wanted to live. It wasn’t an arbitrary decision and it was more than moral. It’s about identity. As long as you can choose that, choose who you are in the world… you can choose to call yourself sane.”