Greg Cox > Quotes

“When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.”
― Greg Cox, The Eugenics Wars, Vol. 1: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh

“You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."

"How about I express you out the nearest window?”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured.

"Always," Parker said.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization

“Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal
humanity. And finally, again…the sun.”
― Greg Cox

“There is a prison,” Alfred began grimly, “in a more ancient part of the world. A pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But sometimes a man rises from that darkness. Sometimes the pit sends something back.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."

"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried?”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“One man"s tool is another man's weapon. - Bruce Wayne”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization

“You have a practiced apathy, Mr. Wayne. But a man who doesn’t care about the world doesn’t spend half his fortune on a plan to save it—and isn’t so wounded when it fails that he goes into hiding.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“Our crimes always catch up with us. - Alfred Pennyworth”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization

“Sorry? You expect to destroy my world, then shake hands? - Bruce Wayne”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization

“Perhaps, but this Awakening felt very different from those in the past. A peculiar sensation seemed to
spread throughout his body, propelled by the very beating of his heart. Within his veins, lycan blood
mixed with his own, merging in an unexpected alchemical reaction. He felt a change come over him, a
fundamental transformation in his very nature. Power such as he had never known surged through his
veins.
His eyes snapped open, revealing a pair of jet-black orbs.
Hybrid eyes.”
― Greg Cox

“You can fail as Bruce Wayne,” he said. “As Batman, you can’t afford to.” “Is that what you’re afraid of?” Bruce asked indignantly. “That if I go back out there, I’ll fail?” “No,” Alfred said. “I’m afraid you want to.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“But once you’ve done what you had to, they’ll never let you do what you want to.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“How can you move faster than possible,” the other man asked, “fight longer than possible, if not from the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death. The will to survive.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“The shadows betray you, because they belong to me…”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“a flaming angel”
― Greg Cox, Batman: The Court of Owls: An Original Prose Novel

“Nobody would ever miss an editor...”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“But I don’t understand,” she said. “Why have you been following me all over the world? Why didn’t you just approach me before?”

“I’ve wanted to,” he confessed. “But I kept chickening out. I meant to in Frankfurt, but then you spotted me and I lost my nerve. I didn’t want you to think I was some sort of creepy stalker.”

“God forbid,” Eliot muttered.

Larry looked nervously at Eliot. “Then your bodyguard took off after me and I just panicked. And then there was that scary blonde in the dog costume…”

“Scary?” Parker reacted, her indignation coming through Sophie’s earbud loud and clear. “I was adorable.”

“My personal assistant,” Sophie explained. “She’s a furry.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“How dare you use Rachel to stop me?” he growled. “I’m using the truth, Master Bruce. Maybe it’s time we all stopped trying to outsmart the truth, and just let it have its day.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“Look at her, Alfred,” Bruce said. “That sculpture alone, which we owe to both Percy and Lydia, is proof that Gotham’s past holds more than just crime and bloodshed. Peace and grace can also be found there, and endure for generations to come, long after the sins of the past are dead and buried.”
― Greg Cox, Batman: The Court of Owls: An Original Prose Novel

“You think darkness is your ally,” Bane said. “But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Formed by it…”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.” “This isn’t a car,” he pointed out.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization

“All Talons must burn!”
― Greg Cox, Batman: The Court of Owls: An Original Prose Novel

“We should definitely keep an eye on the children of course, particularly that little Indian boy you mentioned, the son of Sarina Kaur. The genetically enhanced offspring of Kaur is not someone we can afford to ignore. What was his name again?"

"Noon. Short for Khan Noonien Singh”
― Greg Cox, The Eugenics Wars, Vol. 1: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh

“The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“You see, it’s the slow knife…the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips between the bones. That’s the knife—” With her other hand, she armed the trigger device. “—that cuts deepest.”
― Greg Cox, The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Movie Novelization