Jonathan Hickman > Quotes

“We planned for betrayal. They planned for deceit. No one ever thought to plan for harmony.”
― Jonathan Hickman, The Manhattan Projects #7

“Love sends a man half way around the world ...
Just for the hope of catching it.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“No. It's not a game. This is the world. It is not the one we were supposed to have, but it's the one we made.

We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together.

But I'm damned already... so at least I'm going to try.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“Spiderman: You're going to have to do something about those children, Stark.
Tony: What children?
Spiderman: The annoying, ill-mannered ones.
Tony: I need more.
Spiderman: Bomb Boy and Solar Flare.
Tony: I think you mean Cannonball and Sunspot. What did they do this time?
Spiderman: We were in the kitchen and they decided to - rather rudely - confront me about eating the leftovers in the refrigerator.
Tony: Was it your food?
Spiderman: No.
Tony: Was it theirs?
Spiderman: Possibly. It was an honest mistake. My point - I think THE point - is I won't be spoken to that way by infants.
Tony: Then don't eat their food.”
― Jonathan Hickman, Avengers, Vol. 1: Avengers World

“Listen, I'm going to tell you this because no one else will, Franklin. Spider-Man sucks.”
― Jonathan Hickman, Fantastic Four, Vol. 1

“You come face to face with love, and before the sun sets, you've become someone you didn't used to be.

It makes the old new. Makes dead things live.

Love makes you into something better.

It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly...

And she don't ever need to touch the ground.

Love sends a man half way around the world...

Just for the hope of catching it.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“Justice is what the strong do the weak.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 7

“The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“Hyperion: We're going to die here today.
Thor: Aye...But let it be on our terms. One more time. Our very...Huurggg!...best.
(Thor is unable to lift the mjolnir from an alternate universe - Thorr's hammer of unworthiness)
Thor: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! So be it. If this is the end let me not meet is as The Unworthy...but as my father's son. The occasion demands I offer you a drink, Hyperion, but unfortunately, I have none.
Hyperion: That's because we drank it all, brother.
Thor: Yes. We did.. Nothing left to do now but the other thing.
Hyperion: I just want to say... for some time I believed I survived the death of two worlds -- now I know it just took a while to catch up with me. It's a dark thing, what my life became... you have made it better, Odinson. Will you wait for me in Valhalla?
Thor: Brother... this day, I will race you there.
*Against the bleak nothing of dead space, two gods fell to many. The sun shone one last time. There was lightning, and thunder... and then silence.*”
― Jonathan Hickman, Avengers: Time Runs Out, Vol. 4

“Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic.”
― Jonathan Hickman, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule

“There's a thing, Father, where men who have thought they were giants their entire lives actually see one for the first time.

It sparks a reaction.

It shows them their true worth.

It shows them their place.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be...

It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

“It feels wrong.'
'Hmmm?'
'Sending you out there, Thor. It feels wrong.'
'How might that be?'
'Well...I'm staying here to fix the Avengers while you're...'
'Undergoing a different trial.'
'I'm just saying...The auger is going to throw all of you to the other side of the multiverse. Tens of thousands of Universes away.'
'Sounds very far.'
'You certainly don't measure the distance in miles. Regardless...I stay here and try and fix the Avengers--a group of which you were a founding member...'
'While I go to smite at the very heart of what caused...all this. I wish you well in repairing the dream, Roberto...I hope that when the moment comes, my will is as steady as yours. My heart as righteous. Soon...we shall see.'
'Thor.'
'Yes?'
'You understand, right? There's no coming back. You're all going to die out there.'
'Aye. It is an end. But to die...striking down the great destroyer? That would be a fitting one. So if you pray, pray that I am not found wanting...and instead am worthy of such a glorious end.”
― Jonathan Hickman (Author)

“While you slept, the world changed”
― Jonathan Hickman, House of X/Powers of X

“Ever boy deserves a father.”
― Jonathan Hickman, Fantastic Four, Vol. 5

“The catalyst of action is intent.
It's the other end of the bullet.”
― Jonathan Hickman, East of West #13

“It's distasteful, I know... this business of running a nation. I pray that we never get used to it. That we never grow cold from it. That we never learn to love it.”
― Jonathan Hickman, House of X/Powers of X

“Do you know what the people will say about this day thousands of years from now? What they will say about these creatures and their valiant last stand? Nothing... because we will not tell them. Oblivion is all there is for--”
― Jonathan Hickman

“What is the true cost of a man's mistakes?”
― Jonathan Hickman, Fantastic Four, Vol. 2

“-Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions?
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Hmmm. Okay.”
― Jonathan Hickman

“newfound power leads to new perspective”
― Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars

“Fuck your science, Doctor...
I've got a machine gun.”
― Jonathan Hickman, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 4: The Four Disciplines

“I am everywhere. I am nowhere. A shadow, unchained and unleashed. The world made me this way, so let the world suffer”
― Jonathan Hickman

“I learned that the difference between living and dying is managing fear. Not being afraid of losing the things you love that you hold them too tight. I used to believe in universal contraction. Entropy and the end of all things. Well, I've changed my mind. I'm letting go. Because now I believe in expansion. I believe we endure. Don't you see? Everything lives.”
― Jonathan Hickman, Secret Wars

“For you to die, you would have to be forgotten and no one forgets a founder of a nation.”
― Jonathan Hickman, House of X/Powers of X

“-and what about you? Do you wanna make out?
- A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.”
― Jonathan Hickman

“Your freedom it says. What is that? Some kind of illusory concept where the people in charge let you have comfortable distractions. Enough THINGS so that you don't see your chains. I respect your work too much to let you endure that kind of self-deception.”
― Jonathan Hickman, The Manhattan Projects #2

“Finally... On other earths, on other universes, I learned that evil itself was a universal constant... And that it had a face, and that it had a name.”
― Jonathan Hickman, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 4: The Four Disciplines

“Ignore how things are. Ignore how they seem. Make the world better.”
― Jonathan Hickman