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--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Bruce and Dick made a promise to one another on this very spot, a long time ago. He gave Dick the opportunity to leave his old life behind, a chance to make sure justice was served... Dick didn't take the easy way out. He didn't let his pain win -- I know you've already made that choice. This oath isn't about you... it's about me. I became Batgirl on my own. But the world is different now than it was then. And I'm in this chair as proof. "I pledge to you, Stephanie Brown -- my guidance. Support. For as long as you want it. When you go out at night, you won't be alone."

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

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--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

That voice though. Like wind growling over gravestones. That can't be natural.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I can see Gotham's future. And without people like you and Pixie Boots and me, this place doesn't have much to look forward to.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Watch your back, woman. I'm coming to get you. I don't buy your lies. No killing is justified. Ever.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

You didn't know me back then. I wasn't professional like you -- I had some issues.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

You know at the end of the day, when you close the door and you're all alone... And you strip off your armor and lower your guard and peel away the mask... When there's nobody watching and nothing to hide... And you no longer need to be strong or clever or pretty or brave... There's just you. That's it. That's the soul.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Wearing that bat on your chest might scare off smaller thugs... but you're literally asking, no, begging for attention from more dangerous criminals. You're a mark for anyone who wants to make theirs, Stephanie.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Suddenly, I get it. I see him. I see why crooks are terrified, why Dad doesn't talk about him. He's not a myth or a nightmare. He's a real man, a human being. And now I know what being driven really means. And I know I want my life to matter.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Thought you were gonna terrify the world, right? Look at you. You're a punk. A nobody. I'm frankly amazed you haven't wet yourself.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Heights? You think I'm afraid of heights? You bargain-basement Hawkman?

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

That was your kidney. That's your liver. And this. You know what this is? It's your damn spine.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Maybe you should take your meds. I'm guessing you stopped again? I can tell because you get all squeaky.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

You stole everything from us. You stole our family. From now on, James...? I'm an only child.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I'm a skeptic, Gregor. I don't believe in miracles. And if someone is handing them out... why should I, of all people in the world, be the recipient?

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I do this... volunteer work, right? And it hit me. I looked at my uniform. And I realized to the dead center of my soul... I didn't deserve to wear it anymore.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

We live in Gotham City, Mirror. Sometimes extraordinary things happen to the very worst people, and the best people suffer. And Sometimes, people get their miracles whether they deserve them or not.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I barely recognize her. And, I'm sorry, I know it's childish. But maybe I don't want the woman who abandoned me to be here, in my place, on the holidays.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Look, a bad man turned your life inside out. I know what that's about. He's dead. His crime family, it's all gone now. You saw to that. Let that be the end of this life for you.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Okay, okay. Dinah was right. I have been given a gift. And it's time to use it. Dear dirtbags... meet Batgirl.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I always wondered how Bruce stays so cool. So detached. I get it now. It's so he doesn't become what I am right this moment.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

She lost more than that, Tim. Batman lost his parents. Huntress lost everyone with the name Bertinelli. This was a systematic annihilation of a family line.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

You saved the Joker's life before. Justice could have been served, but you had to be noble.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

He feels it the same as you do. The guilt, the doubts... only unlike you, he isn't used to going it all alone. He needs his friend.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I already know how you think. You'll invest money and resources into building some kind of vault to store them. He won't be the last. And I'll help you get it up and running. It's the least I can do. But after that, I'm finished. I will quit being Batgirl, it's been a long time coming.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

If I may have your attention, please? I'm Barbara Gordon, daughter of police commissioner James Gordon, and my stepmother is lieutenant Sarah Essen Gordon. I realize every one of you also has a parent, child or spouse... and I can't stop you from trying to make your way through the chaos to your loved ones' sides. I will point out, however, that leaving here would constitute dereliction of duty -- and, as my father would put it, a sheer waste of manpower. The most sensible, if not emotional, course of action demands the coordination of our efforts right here, starting right now... ensuring the highest overall survival rate, given our admittedly limited powers and resources. If we help whomever we can from here... then the welfare of our loved ones will be entrusted to fate and the efforts of strangers. But my final point is this... it was fate that created this situation, and we're all in it together. The moment the earthquake struck... is the moment we all ceased being strangers.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Propaganda. All wars require propaganda. Amazing. Not one of these guys ever paid attention during a history class, yet here they are creating and spreading propaganda.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I don't know how this is possible... but Matches Malone has just been shot.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

The Gotham Underground is going to get more vicious... more desperate. We're going to want to take the easy way out whenever possible -- but we can't.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

How did everything go so wrong so fast? On our watch. My watch. I'm Oracle. I run a tight operation here...

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

That's it then? We do your bidding and you get to wallow in grief? Maybe you'd better think about changing your specialty, Bruce. You don't handle the 'grieving thing' well.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

There's a monster at Lake Wackadoodle?

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

If she comes back and I'm not alive, it'll break her heart. I know that. But if she died protecting me, that would be even worse. I couldn't bear it.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I'm sorry for what I did, Helena. By the time I knew you, knew what you were really like, I'd already made a mess of things.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Yep, just when you least expect it, there it'll be. Revenge.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

If nothing else ever comes of this, well, it's still an extraordinary gift isn't it?

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Listen, unless you want a girl in a wheelchair to smack you around a bit, you're gonna have to let the "It's all my fault" thing go.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

I'm Oracle, I know everybody.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Now why does an organization with three hundred supervillains in it send in these no-name drones? Distraction.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Mary... I'll never ask you to do something you can't do, but Freeze will kill Starling if we don't get there in time. We can't abandon one of our own. Give me an address or draw me a map. you don't have to come with us.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Yeah, was asleep, but it's okay. I was having my favorite dream it all time. I was dance. I was beatiful. I was dancing.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Sometimes our only comfort comes from believing that there is no chance. That whatever happens in this world happens for a reason.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

She's manipulative and arrogant, and doesn't respect anything but her own whims. She was going to kill her own brother! She's the kind of woman who makes me ashamed to be one.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Dick, we can't go on like this... I think it would be better if-- --- I think maybe we shouldn't see each other anymore.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Hey, sometimes it's just a matter of looking at things from the right angle to have them make sense. You'd be surprised at what you might find.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Her hobby is hunting down the best fighters in the world and beating them to death with her bare hands.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

He thinks leaping from the roof will lose me. He's wrong.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

Frankly, I don't get how what's basically lawn-starter is going to save the world, but he was all about it. He had faith in it.

--Barbara Gordon (New Earth)

"Birds of Prey?": Jaime Reyes

Yes.: Oracle

So they're like super powered birds?: Jaime Reyes

No!: Oracle

They have bird powers?: Jaime Reyes

No.: Oracle

Do they at least have bird code names?: Jaime Reyes

...one does.: Oracle

Annnnnd we're back to you sucking.: Jaime Reyes

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