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“People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and… well, sometimes they can’t talk about them. I know how that is.”

“"Do it?" Dan, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

“Gloria, please… I have to. In a world like this… I mean, it’s all we can do, try to help each other. It’s all that means anything… please, please understand.

I'm sorry. It’s the world… I can’t run from it.”

“Offices below, headstones marking daily graves of thousands. Inside, across clock faces, as observed as those of celebrities, hands commence final laps. Oblivion gallops closer, favoring the spur, sparing the rein.
I think we will be gone soon.”

“But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”

“What about all those occasions when men have found it necessary to go masked in order to preserve justice above the letter of the law? (...) Despite what some might view as their later excesses, the Klan originally came into being because decent people had perfectly reasonable fears for the safety of their persons and belongings when force into proximity with people from a culture far less morally advanced.”

“I think it was a good thing to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
That is all I have to say about my parents.”

“The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.
We are alone.
There is nothing else.”

“Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.
Was Rorschach.
Does that answer your questions, doctor?”

“The Gods now walk amongst us, affecting the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet in a direct way rather than through mythology and the reassurances of faith. The safety of a whole world rests in the hands of a being far beyond what we understand to be human.

We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.”