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“Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever - I am PHOENIX!”
― Chris Claremont, X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Colossus: The X-Men need me. But as I said...
Trance: Yeah, they don't trust you. I got it.
Colossus: What would Wolverine do?
Trance: He'd team up with a teenage girl and go kill bad guys.”
― Christopher Yost, Amazing X-Men, Vol. 3: Once and Future Juggernaut

“Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't?" - Emma Frost”
― Scott Lobdell, Generation X Classic, Vol. 1