Greg Rucka > Quotes

“Knife fights are something that happen between the Sharks and the Jets, that's it. Everywhere else, it's not a fight, it's just someone trying to goddam kill you.”
― Greg Rucka, Walking Dead

“So when she wasn’t sleeping or just sitting and listening to the storm or tinkering at her workbench, she flew.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“In their armor they were all the same, and that was the point, he understood. But he took pleasure in the moments when he could see their variety and diversity—those moments when he could glimpse the people beneath the armor and see them as more than just faceless, nameless soldiers identified by letters and numbers and nothing more.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“LOIS: The personal stuff you've been dealing with, did you feel like you needed someone to catch you? Were we not there for you?

DIANA: (pauses) You know how when people talk of depression, they talk of it both coming in storms and coming stealthily? So that, for many, it is the status quo, before they realize... that we lose our self-awareness in that. So I can't... I can't fault the people who love and care for me for not seeing what I did not myself see.

I think, again, when we have our moments of clarity, it is very easy to brush past them, to let the status quo continue. It can be very difficult and sometimes painful to turn and confront them. The only analogy I can think of is chronic pain. When that pain has been with you for so very long, it is background noise. And one is not aware of it until something happens that places it into relief.

LOIS: But you're not talking about physical pain?

DIANA: No. And I am not certain I am talking about emotional pain either. It has been difficult for me to untangle. I think there is a psychological element to it. I think it is important--and I think as a reporter that you would be inclined to agree--that we question those basic assumptions that we often decide are true.

I have found myself in a position where a great deal of what I took as true no longer seems accurate.

That may be because I have changed. That may be because the world has changed. Or it may be because I was mistaken. And it is that last that is the most concerning. I put great stock in truth--I think that's one of the reasons why we get along.”
― Greg Rucka

“The FN P-35 was known more commonly as the Browning Hi-Power, a popular enough firearm to those who used it, and in and of itself, nothing more needed to be noted. Except the fact that the Browning was the sidearm of choice for the Special Air Service, and while the gun itself was produced by Fabrique Nationale, a Belgian concern, and named after an American gunmaker--John M. Browning--there were many who thought of the weapon as Very British Indeed.”
― Greg Rucka, A Gentleman's Game

“Somebody's got to win this war, right?”
― Greg Rucka, Lazarus, Vol. 4: Poison

“Os ataco con espinas y respondéis con plomo. ¿No es ése el centro del problema?”
― Greg Rucka, Batman #2

“You get them to the main gate, don't stop until you're outside," Bell tells her, then turns, directing his words at the others. "You understand? All of you, follow Lilac. Follow Lilac. Don't stop. Run."
"Lily runs," the girl says softly. "Lilac dances."
"Not today," Lilac says. "Today, we run so fast that Lily won't believe it when we tell her. Right?"
The girl nods, wide-eyed.”
― Greg Rucka, Alpha

“I’m hoping Lor San Tekka knows where to find my brother, Poe. And Luke Skywalker may be the only hope we have left.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“The need to do what’s right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way.” Poe shifted in his seat. “You remind me of my brother,” Leia said softly. “Fly like him, too, apparently.” Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“Chace went to the bar to order the first round, two lagers. The barman was old, and old-fashioned, and when he served her one pine, presumably for Wallace, and a half, presumably for her, she sent the half back.
"No, another pint, if you please."
The barman's eyes turned critical. "Not terribly ladylike."
"I'm a terrible lady.”
― Greg Rucka, A Gentleman's Game

“She released his hand and sat back. That air of sadness had descended on her once more. His father had carried a similar melancholy after his mother had passed; Poe would see it descend on him like a shadow, settle over his shoulders like a blanket made of warmth and memory and longing and loss. Leia wore something made of the same material, and not for the first time Poe wondered how she had come by it and, perhaps more importantly, who had given it to her.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.”
― Greg Rucka, Lazarus, Vol. 4: Poison

“Everyone uses everyone, Tee. Way of the world, isn’t it?”
― Greg Rucka, Queen and Country: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 2

“It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“In that moment he understood it had never been a game. He understood that he was never going to be one of them.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn’t remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“ Where you see darkness, I see stars .

- Laech Min-Glsain, from Poems, Prayers and Meditations on the Force, edited by Kozem Pel, Disciple of the Whills”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills

“Leia was looking up at Poe, smiling ever so slightly. Flyboys. You're all the same.
Some of us are flygirls, Poe said.”
― Greg Rucka

“We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.”
― Greg Rucka, Lazarus, Vol. 4: Poison

“You cannot lose what is inside you,” Chirrut said. “You can only misplace it. The task, then, is to find it again.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills

“Deadshot you're not.”
― Greg Rucka, Superman: Unconventional Warfare

“Return London. Safest route.”
― Greg Rucka, Queen and Country: The Definitive Edition, Vol. 2

“Have you heard of the Resistance, Poe?” “Rumors, mostly.” “Such as?” “Such as there’s a splinter of the Republic military that…that feels the Republic isn’t taking certain threats as seriously as they maybe ought to be taking them. Specifically the threat posed by the First Order.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force acted righteously, and he had known more than one sentient who had acted selfishly, even cruelly, and used belief to justify doing so.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills

“One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills

“Bell holsters his pistol as Chain drops to one knee, begins searching bodies and bags. Lilac is watching him warily, the boy and girl clinging to her. "You with me? Lilac? Are you with me?"
Lilac nods, hesitantly at first, then again, with resolve, and maybe it's calling her by her character name that does it, but she takes a breath, stands a little straighter. She is Lilac the meerkat, the heart of the Flower Sisters. Fierce and loyal, yet kind at heart, and she will do what must be done.”
― Greg Rucka, Alpha

“The pistol had been one hell of a find, because it hadn't quite been what she'd thought it was at first blush. Not simply the S&W Mk 39, but rather a modified version of the same, the Mk 22 Mod 0, also called the "hush puppy". It was Vietnam-era, not the most reliable gun in the world, but wonderfully silent, not only equipped with a silencer to eliminate the sound of gunfire, but also with a slide lock, to keep the actual mechanical operation of the gun quiet as well. She'd test-fired the gun at the market before purchasing, and been stunned that it still worked. The Uzbek vendor had offered to sell it to her cheap.
"It's too quiet," he'd explained. "No one wants it."
Chace shut her eyes, half smiling at the memory.”
― Greg Rucka, Private Wars

“In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations,”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening