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As I recall, it was the Invisible Hood you killed. He’d semi-retired by then. Moved to Austin, Texas. And… um… wasn’t it ’74?

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

I had no Idea until that Moment. No Idea of what I was capable of doing. Of being.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

Blood looks black in the Moonlight.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

I was not alone. My Powers. My cursed, foul, fierce, dark, dire, wonderful Powers had been as an affliction to me. Separating me from Man. Making me hate Man for his Normalcy and resent him and despise and disdain him. My Heart was as black as my Shadow by this Time. But now... now I was no longer alone. There were others afflicted as me. And One... one I chose.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

I don't let Ludlows live. Not those with hatred for me.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

Put me off? You hired Deathstroke to decapitate me... Never looked up the word "subtle," I gather.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

To live a life everlasting is to value those of a shorter span of years. I've come to see that, of late. But I sense not a jot of remorse for your actions in either of you. And by God, I want you gone from me.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

If I recall the moment I became the Shade - the instant - it is just that, a moment in time. But simultaneously in my memory it took years. Cast adrift on an ebon tide. Agony, bliss, icy numbness, conflagrant light, anger, calm. And I became someone new.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

*Cough* ... I know we're kindred "shadow" spirits and all... but I have to say, Bete-Noir, you are a bore and a bully. I've killed people for being one or the other in the past, did you know that? Imagine what I'm going to do to you.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

And that was when I recalled something Blacksmith had told me... How, to native Australians, the earth, the people, the world... How everything is one within the dreaming. How, in the dreaming, my eternal spirit-child exists, along with everyone's, before birth on earth and after death. It is that part of me that reaches out now.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

How very uncivil, sir. How very rude. Why, I'll have you know... Some of my best friends are sodomites.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

Don't worry, sir. For your audacious choices in suit linings alone, you deserve to live.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

Though he'll never know it, I am the grandfather of young Albert Caldecott. I mean to see him safe.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

I'll refrain from the obvious lecture on how one should address one's elders and instead implore you to put an end to these theatrics. Armed, bespoke henchmen at your beck and call. Masonic cabals. I mean, it's hardly original... Like something out of a Bulldog Drummond adventure, or Rohmer.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

Journals are selfish guardians of words and thoughts.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

A pity you're dead, Jack Knight... that you cannot see what I've found. I wonder if... if you had lived, could you have been that which your father and brother never were. The champion this city has deserved and been denied these many years.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

It's not a favor I ask. It's need of you... This city has need of its hero. I act merely as herald to the threat you will ultimately have to face.

--Richard Swift (New Earth)

It was too much of a task for one man. Even one armed with the power of suns. Luckily Ted Knight had realized this. No one knew it at the time, of course, but Ted had been a true hero then. For the sake of his city, He'd swallowed his pride. And he'd picked up the phone. And made some calls.