Raymond Palmer (New Earth)/Quotes

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Time for atomic action.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

If my mental stats is so repellent to you, shouldn't I at least consider embracing it? What if I'm not losing my mind? What if the voice isn't an illusion?

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

I ran away. Disappeared into subatomic space. I thought maybe if I became small enough... I could escape the pain.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

You don't know how often that's happened to me. There was this time Dr. Mid-Nite's owl thought I was a mouse and--

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The gods came, Aquaman. They obliterated us. There are no heroes. I'm just Ray Palmer, a guerilla trapped behind enemy lines... I was a scientist, and science lost out to... religion.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Okay, I'm down--about 2500 angstroms from the target. Not bad at all.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

''TWO PLUS ONE EQUALS THREE! STOP EQUALING FOUR! STOP EQUALING FOUR!!''

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Are you finished? Because there are about a half million other things we can be doing to save lives rather than stand in the United Nations and be insulted.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

"Oan scum"? As if Earth racism isn't bad enough... What did you ever do to tick that thing off?

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Score one for objective reality.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

I discovered that I could mentally will it to grow or diminish if I was in close enough proximity. I then realized that it was this strange psycho-sensitive property that had allowed me to first survive and reverse the shrinking process...

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

I think we're on an electron.

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I've killed better men than you just because they threatened me once! And I'm ten times madder at you than I was at them!"

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Join you? Since I came back to the states, it seems like everyone has plans for me -- and I'm getting really tired of it!

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This is the Atom speaking from just inside your right ear! And unless you carefully pull over to the side of the road -- I'm going to crawl inside your brain.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Sic your swarm on me again and I'll shrink into one of your pores and they'll blast you instead. By the way, I think you should know -- I never beat Larvan this easily!

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I think about my early days as the Atom, and it's like reflecting on my childhood. I was dashing. Incorruptible. Back then I played out my heroic fantasies just as surely as i had in the playground and vacant lots of my boyhood.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

That must be the White Dwarf Matter of my Atom suit -- it disappeared along with my extra mass after I came through Norm's phone. It's wherever the rest of me is!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

This is the JLI?! The only two I recognize are J'onn J'onzz and the Batman! Where did these people come from? And who in blazes is this "Captain" Atom? What, I'm gone for a few months and someone steals my name?

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Rivalry? You've been trying to kill me for years!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

I don't like people shooting at me!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Is this what I fought to protect? Is this how you celebrate the end of a war -- by tearing down what the enemy didn't?

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Now that I am able to turn myself into a human Atom -- who knows what strange and wonderful things may happen?

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

It's incredible how quiet a cat can be on a linoleum floor. Before I heard it, I felt its breath on my neck."

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Even without my size control, I can give these guys a run for their money. After all, I didn't spend ten years bouncing off erasers for nothing.

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This life suits me. I never had to be a hero -- I could've just been a... crazy professor who shrank things.

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If Superman or, God, Batman sees me pulling this stunt they'll never give me a break! Plastic Man and Damage... maybe even Aztek will get into the JLA before me!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

I don't belong with these guys! I was Justice League! I was big time!

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Oh, that mysterious force has taken hold of me again! it's treating me as if I were a puppet -- pulling the strings to make me pick up this piece of mineral.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Maybe magic can't hurt you, but have a taste of my bewitching punch!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

They were caused -- not by luck -- but according to the Law of Mathematical Probabilities! Apparently you acted as a 'catalyst' to increase the chance of an improbability happening.

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You're absolutely right! Not a word of my adventure is true! I made up that entire story! Now, if you'd like to hear a different solution to the mystery -- the real explanation -- I'll be glad to oblige.

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

What an odd coincidence that I should be at both of his robberies! I wonder if -- something about the White Dwarf Star Matter of my Atom uniform is necessary for him to work that Ion Mask?

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I'm the world's smallest hero... and the dumbest!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Your last mission's finished, old friend! What bitter irony! If I stayed inside your skull... your second life could continue indefinitely... but Ray Palmer's life would be discontinued!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

I always thought Superguy was just a muscle-bound enforcer of his definition of justice! Never knew he was so... sensitive! I respect him a lot more now!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)

Listen -- I wouldn't do this if I were you!

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What Earthly good is this power of mine, except on rare and special occasions? Last night I skipped a special JLA meeting to tail some crooks and the police took 'em before I could throw a punch! Controlling my size and weight makes me a health spa instructor, not a hero!

--Raymond Palmer (New Earth)