Boston Brand (New Earth)/Quotes

I never cared about life until I lost it.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I call this the "Dead Zone"--it's sorta the on-ramp to the afterlife. You go through here to get to--your final destination.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I've tried everything. I've been everywhere. I thought the top of the world was the last answer... the last refuge... it's not. Not by a long shot. Whispering. Every second. Of every day. It won't stop. Words surround me. Words that aren't words. From the dead. To a dead man. I'm pulled to him. Pulled to me. The dead man who's here below my feet. The final resting place... of a ghost who can never rest. My bones cry for help. Help from being desecrated. From being abused. And then I hear it. One word. As loud and clear as the gunshot that stole my life under the big top. Flesh. But I'm powerless to stop it. Rise. And then I do what I always do. Leap before I look. If anyone can save me, it's me.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I want to live, do you hear me?! I want my second chance!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

You may be Hell's answer to Dr. Seuss, but that doesn't make you invincible. I'll find a way to stop you!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

The jerk! If only he left me alone... but he didn't. He killed Cleve... so now I'm comin' for him!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Whoa! I-I'm getting solid again! Only ghosts and super-heroes can fly... and in Nada Parbat... I'm neither!!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

T-Time for you to meet y-your maker, Jonah... Happy landings, you son-of-a...

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

One dead person is enough for tonight, not counting me, of course.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Y'know, being dead, it's like waiting for a bus... you don't see anyone for months and then two or three arrive together...

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd...! The high wire was my life! I coulda been the greatest aerialist of all time!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Nice work, Spec-baby-- And I think I like you better now that your power's been brought down a notch or three. Forces you to be more creative...

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I'm a dead man standing in the shoes of a dead man! That makes me twice dead!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

No! No! No! It can't be... He can't have just picked me off a poster... and killed me for a warped graduation test! No! I won't believe it!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I put my world-class trapeze artist skills to work. I may not be as graceful as those Cirque du Soleil sissies, but know one's better at operating without a net. Oolifff, I should have judged that better.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I'm Boston Brand, or I was, until one of these people -- one pure and noble soul -- killed me! But Rama Kushna has given me the power to move among the living -- until I find my murder! And I will find him -- if it takes until eternity!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

What kind of a mind doesn't put a fail-safe on the airlock?

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I'm the flippin' hall monitor of the afterlife.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Y'see, after death, life becomes precious--and I don't like stealing even a minute of it.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Can't let this huge cornice fall on the folks below... and while I'm wearing this body, I don't have to! This, as the snappy saying goes, this is a job for... Superman!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Never fear! Boston Brand's here!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Where there's life, there is always hope! And I think I'd better tag along for a while to prove it to you!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Days like this, it's good to be alive... presumably.

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Wow! I was shot only minutes after that -- a long way from Dayton! What an irony -- Jeff couldn't have killed me 'cause he was shooting another man at the time!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

I want to hear it... I want everybody to hear it! Tell them what a murdering sparrow you are!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Call the cops! What do you want me to do -- write a letter?! Call the cops!!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

Yaa-Hooo! That's what I call a freak-out, pop!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

How can I find anything -- when no one can hear me -- or see me -- or fear me?!

--Boston Brand (New Earth)

But what happen to you HOOK? Where -- are -- you -- KILLER?

--Boston Brand (New Earth)