People who live in the night are acquainted with all kinds of quiet. There’s quiet enough to hear the distant traffic. Quiet enough to hear your breathing. Quiet enough to hear a lover’s heartbeat. There’s please-god-don’t-let-me-die quiet, and can’t-remember-her-name quiet. Is-he-lying quiet and can’t-make-rent quiet. There’s the quiet that inspires poets, and quiet that torments the lonely.

~ Chris Dee

Chris Dee Fear Gotham Loneliness Night Quiet Silence Stillness

It wasn’t Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn’t any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just… what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.

~ Chris Dee

Chris Dee Cities Crime Evil Gotham Heroes

I'm sure for that comming there was a reason, but what's going to happen with that reason and Gotham?

~ Deyth Banger

Deyth Banger Comming For Gotham Reason Sure

Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg Allusions Batman City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg Gotham Jay Gatsby New York City The Great Gatsby