95 Quotes by Gail Simone

For a moment... for a moment. We are eternal. We are every warrior forced to kill and die for a cause no one will remember in years to come. Every adversary who ever felt blade cleave into bone. Every crimson-stained fighter who died for nothing. I imagine the first beings left here by the gods died thus. And when the sun sets on our race, the last two men will have their brothers’ blood on their blades.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn’t seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.

You look at me with eyes that see only honor and gallantry. The truth is darker yet. Being Sonja means being called to darkness and pain. And knowing that you have the power to alter and take the lives of many. A great many. And praying to the gods that you always choose the right side.

I get very invested in characters, it’s the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

Revenge never heals what’s broken.

And he was the first crush I ever had that wasn’t a scientist – it’s a different thing altogether. It made me a little peeved at myself, to be honest. Half the girls in Gotham City would have been happy just touching his jacket. I didn’t want it to happen. But I’m human, all right? And for a while, we were better than kids with a crush. We were actually friends.

All my life, I’ve had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn’t need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I’ll send their eyes back blackened.

When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.