Wonder Woman: Warbringer Quotes
"Take it easy, Pyxis. Wouldn’t want to see you crack."
"For the glory of the Amazons, for the glory of our queen."
"We dance differently when you know you won’t live forever."
"The island had its own rules, its own prohibitions, and there were reasons for all of them."
"Battles are often lost because people don’t know which war they’re fighting."
"Make a plan. Battles are often lost because people don’t know which war they’re fighting."
"You’re not actually suggesting sabotage. Tek wouldn’t—Wouldn’t she?"
"One by one, her sisters turned their backs as they must, and though they wept, their salt tears were as nothing to the sea."
"I am a queen and an Amazon; you are wise to tremble."
"We cannot spend our lives in hiding, wondering what we might accomplish if given the chance. We have to take that chance ourselves."
"I swear on Jason and Nim and my shot at an Ivy League school."
"Most philosophers agree that mind and body must be in accord."
"What have I done?" The air felt strange on Diana's skin, gritty in her lungs.
"The heartstone was steering. I thought of the spring. I focused on the coast of…"
"Water is water," she said, with more confidence than she felt.
"They build with steel and stone and promise to remember, but they never do."
"It's like facing the Oracle all over again—the terror of staring into the unknown. The thrill of it."
"Direct eye contact is sometimes considered an act of aggression among primates."
"I'm fully grown," she said. "And I'm not yet sure."
"Perhaps if you could keep a woman, you'd have less call to proposition strangers."
"The maid would have a key. And the tread is too heavy. Be silent and be still."
"If you try to break into a woman's chambers, you should expect to be trounced."
"It's not just to ask someone to live half a life."
"You can't live in fear. You make things happen or they happen to you."
"Wars happen, Alia. Even in generations when no Warbringer was born, people still found plenty of excuses to kill each other."
"The world was a hostile place. Maybe she’d been sorry she and Nim didn’t seem to be able to hold on to friends, told herself it would get better when she went to college. She’d spent more time on her own and convinced herself that was a choice."
"She wasn’t mad exactly—no, that wasn’t true, she was angry, off-the-charts angry that Jason had kept this from her—but more than needing to punch him in the face, she needed to know what he knew."
"The truth was that they needed Jason’s help if they were going to get to Greece in time. She reached out and took his hand, squeezing it tight, trying to make him understand."
"You're pretty enough, Jason Keralis. But hardly intimidating."
"It's like her mind couldn’t accept what was happening, so it just kept defaulting to the ordinary."
"They said they worked in a sterile white lab all day; they wanted to feel like they were escaping when they came home."
"Maybe she didn’t want you to feel different," Diana said. "Maybe she wanted you to have a chance at being like everyone else."
"I just can’t believe my mom would have kept such a huge secret from me," she said.
"You cannot take the blame for the violence men do."
"Seeing is easy. The hard part is being seen."
"The people in your own house should be on your side. It’s the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they’re the ones who keep trying."
"Lives like the wing beat of a moth. There and then gone."
"You’re going to start drinking already?" said Nim, her tear-stained face bleak. "No," said Theo. "I’m going to continue drinking."
"I’m Alia Mayeux Keralis," she said, surprised by how steady her voice sounded. "And I’m going to stop a war."
"Because men are incapable of living without fighting, and we know that one day the fight will come to us."
"Look them in the eye," she’d always told her. "Let them know who you are."
"I imagine all wars look the same to those who die in them."
"I wear practical shoes and avoid the branches of olive trees."
"We can’t keep driving, so it’s not as if we’re losing time."
"You should swim, too. You may be suffering heatstroke."
"We’re getting to that spring. If they didn’t think we were going to make it, they wouldn’t be trying to frighten us."
"And when you connect with someone, you call it a spark."
"No one wants to live with the truth that long. It’s too much."
"And like the truth, the lasso can’t be altered or broken."
"You don’t want to mess with this. I’ve felt the lasso’s power, and you’re not going to like it."
"Truth means something different when it’s given freely."
"I see you, Daughter of Earth. I see your dreams of glory."
"Because everyone else sucks, and you don’t need a magic lasso to know that’s the truth."
"The world will be what it will be. What matters is how we face it."
"Every generation is weaker than the last. Unable to adapt and thrive without being propped up by vaccines, gene therapy."
"Human courage was different from Amazon bravery."
"Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something."
"I sought you for so long, Diana. I dreamed of finding Themyscira, some remnant of a lost civilization that might yield a vital scrap of Amazon DNA. Instead, I found you."
"You were a story to me, too, you know. An Amazon. A legend come to life."
"You can build a thousand soldiers, and not one will have a hero’s heart."
"We're brutes and have been since our beginning. If we can't have peace, then at least give us a chance at a beautiful death."
"They are my people," he said, spreading his hands wide. "Heroes. Winners."
"You’re not a hero. You’re a little boy playing war."
"Protect them, Athena," she gasped as the life drained from her body.
"I’m a daughter of Nemesis," she said, "the goddess of divine retribution. You may want to think about how well I can hold a grudge."
"Sister in battle, I am shield and blade to you."
"You were my first nothing, Jason. I am immortal, and you are a footnote."
"I don’t know," Diana said, unslinging her as they neared the plane tree. "I guess we just keep fighting. Together."
"As the sun sank below the horizon, Alia hurled herself into the shining waters of the spring."
"The water was far deeper than she’d expected, the cold like a hand sliding closed around her."
"Don’t go. The thought came unbidden to her mind."
"For a brief moment, that righteous anger had burned bright in her heart, and it had belonged to no one but her."
"The coming of a future thick with human misery."
"Alia watched as Helen and her brothers drifted away from the river, until she could no longer find their shapes in the shadows."
"I’m not. I’ll be fine. I’ll build something of my own."
"I don’t know. I may still face exile, punishment."
"The shining scythe of the reaping moon hung low over the valley."
"She was an Amazon. The knowledge burned like a secret flame inside her."
"The world—full of danger, and challenge, and wonder—was waiting to be discovered."