Gotham Quotes

“Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: Year One

“Harlem sleeps late.”
― Jacob M. Appel, The Biology of Luck

“But the real joy he feels doesn't come in the guise of Bruce the billionaire playboy. It comes as Batman - when he does what he was meant to do. When he follows his purpose.”
― Paul Asay, God on the Streets of Gotham: What the Big Screen Batman Can Teach Us about God and Ourselves

“People who live in the night are acquainted with all kinds of quiet. There’s quiet enough to hear the distant traffic. Quiet enough to hear your breathing. Quiet enough to hear a lover’s heartbeat. There’s please-god-don’t-let-me-die quiet, and can’t-remember-her-name quiet. Is-he-lying quiet and can’t-make-rent quiet. There’s the quiet that inspires poets, and quiet that torments the lonely.”
― Chris Dee, Cat-Tales Book 1

“Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“It wasn’t Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn’t any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just… what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.”
― Chris Dee, Cattitude

“I'm sure for that comming there was a reason, but what's going to happen with that reason and Gotham?”
― Deyth Banger

“As we got closer to Staten Island and the tip of Manhattan, the sun hung behind the dense wll of skyscrapers that defines the Manhattan skyline. Within minutes, the sun was a gigantic orangish-pink orb suspended over Gotham. I couldn't take my eyes off the scene, but there was nowhere to stop the bike for a photo. It was one of those moments seared into my consciousness for all eternity. The realization that I was riding out of the darkness and into the light of a new day ran through my head as I kept my eyes on that glorious sunrise.”
― Debi Tolbert Duggar, Riding Soul-O

“Going to keep standing there brooding over Gotham?” his sarcastic voice sliced through the air. Kincaid’s smile tilted in amusement as he faced Renn.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Tempting Ballad

“Growing up means realizing that The Joker, Riddler, and Harley Quinn are the sane response to the dumpster fire that is Gotham City. The guy dressing up like a bat is only prolonging the problem. Gotham can't be saved.”
― A.E. Samaan

“I guess the first victim of the streets of Gotham is one's empathy.”
― Stjepan Šejić, Harleen (2019) #2