Brubaker Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to say a lot of things, but, as usual, I didn't have the words for the thoughts inside my head. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I slipped my hand into hers. A strange and unfamiliar feeling ran through me. It felt like the ocean, like sunlight, like horses. Like love. I searched my mind and found the name for it. Joy. — Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

Lividity is what happens to a person's blood after death. The heart stops, blood pressure collapses, liquid blood drains and sinks and settles into the lowest parts of the body under the simple force of gravity. It rests there and over a period of time it stains the skin liverish purple. Somewhere between three and six hours later the color fixes permanently, like a developed photograph. A guy who falls down dead on his back will have a pale chest and a purple back. Vice versa for a guy who falls down dead on his front. But Brubaker's lividity was all over the place. — Lee Child

Maggie ignored this. "I'll be glad to come to the party. Home's dreadful, you can't imagine. I've never liked school, but now home's worse. Mum's in a funk all the time." Every — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Sourpuss," she said, laughing. "Would it kill you to be grateful?" Maybe. Who knew? — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness. — Michael Chabon

You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave? — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

It's because of my grandfather that I became a Young Avenger. But it's hard sometimes, to be a black kid carrying a name like "Patriot". I remember talking to Captain America about before he died, and he explained what Patriotism meant to him...
It wasn't about blindly supporting your government. It was about knowing what your country could be, what it should be... And trying to lead it there through your example. And holding it accountable when it failed. I remember he said: "There's noting patriotic about corruption or cover-ups... or defending them. But exposing them, well, that takes a hero. — Ed Brubaker

It wore him down, knowing how small he was ...
how insignificant he was to the things in the shadows ...
it wore him down until there was so little left in him ...
that he almost forgot who he really was. — Ed Brubaker

I stared at the paper. I said, "This isn't reading. This is drawing." "Writing," she corrected. "It's like buttons and hems. You've got to learn those before you can sew on the machine. You've got to know your letters before you can read." I supposed so, but it was boring. When I said so she got up again and wrote something along the bottom of the paper. "What's that?" I asked. "'Ada is a curmudgeon,'" she replied. "Ada is a curmudgeon," I copied at the end of my alphabet. It pleased me. After — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

After that, with help from Jamie, I left Susan little notes every day. Susan is a big frog. (That one made Jamie giggle.) — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Midnighter: I told you this wasn't going to end well...
Bendix: ...but...I did what you...what the Authority...never could...fixed earth... Midnighter: No. You just gave them peace through corporate control and ignorance... through mindless consumerism.
Bendix: Bulls*%t! The air is clean...no wars...people are happier...you can't deny...it's a finer world. — Ed Brubaker

Jamie sings like a squirrel. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time. — Brian K. Vaughan

It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Charlie had always been a sucker for this part ... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies ... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you ... truly understands you ... to your soul ... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself. — Ed Brubaker

When you're reading a good noir, the shocks and twists have a way of feeling deja vu-like, as if you saw them coming, but hoped the characters would take a left turn ... not answer the phone, not sleep with that woman, not sell drugs to those cops ... but knew they would. It would have been wrong if they didn't, and the real surprise can be that you care about someone you know is in for hell. You relate to them, even when their hell is so much bigger than your own. But we're all going to die, and we all make mistakes.
The best noir stories make you forget plot entirely by giving you characters that feel so well-realised you can't look away as they fall. — Ed Brubaker

And even if it felt like Mam hated me, she had to love me, didn't she? She had to love me, because she was my mam, and Susan was just somebody who got stuck taking care of Jamie and me because of the war. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

And she thinks she is the lucky one because she got to escape — Ed Brubaker

You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters. — Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

I had so much. I felt so sad. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can't be. This is just a dream we're having. While all our friends sleep. — Ed Brubaker

Revenge. That's what he had come for ... But it didn't really exist, did it?
Just empty regret and bitter heartbreak, wandering the streets.
The city around him, white and grey and cold, felt suddenly so small.
Hyde had been right about family, there was no escaping it ...
Even when there was no one left to run from. — Ed Brubaker

I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others. — Adam Christopher

A sailor at war with the wind and the sea. — Ed Brubaker

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that! — Brian Michael Bendis

Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better. — Ed Brubaker

I didn't know what to do. Susan was temporary. My foot was permanent. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency. — Rogers Brubaker

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I guess you only know your home when you come back to it. — Ed Brubaker

I've never been much for tears, anyway. — Ed Brubaker

I loved you, you know ... It's not my fault the world is what it is. — Ed Brubaker

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage. — Ed Brubaker