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“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??!
Is he still alive!!??”
― Judd Winick, Batman: Under the Red Hood

“I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.”
― Jim Starlin, Batman: The Cult