Roy Harper (New Earth)/Quotes

You idiots are dressing so much better now -- I mean except Jinx. You look like a 16th century Middle Eastern hooker.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

We went into this trying to become something different. Not another group of reactive vigilantes who chase the bad guys. We were going to cut them off at the knees -- find them before they hatched their schemes. But we've become just another collective of costumed thrill-seekers cleaning up messes afterwards.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Despite all their inane boasting, Mallah and Brain ran a massive weapons trafficking business.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

And as for you -- you take another step towards me and your hooded friend gets seriously shafted. Get it?

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

You sent me back into a hell I thought I'd left behind long ago...just to score brownie points with some politicians.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I don't know what the hell made you superhero guys think you were capable of raising kids, but let me tell you something...praise doesn't kill anyone. There's even this thing called self-esteem that's considered useful in certain situations.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Because if everything I've done was in her memory... then what wouldn't I do to bring her back...?

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I love them so much. Always have...I just took it for granted...for so long. They gave me home and family and friendship. They made me want to be a better man. And now they've given me the greatest gift of all... No matter how impossible the odds, they'll face it like heroes. Like...Titans...

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

C'mon. They're not animals. Some of 'em are just kid themselves. The Donna I know wouldn't let anything happen to so many innocent children. The Donna I know would protect them with her life.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

We were thrust into your galaxy by accident — and our main objective is to find our way home. But back where we come from, we fight injustice and oppression — and we wouldn't mind doing the same thing here as long as we're around.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I'm sharing a very small piece of the pain I've just gone through these past few days. The kind of pain thousands of kids are going through every day because an uncaring and unthinking society turns its back on them. Drugs are a symptom... and you... like the rest of society... attack the symptom... not the disease! But this symptom is worse than most -- it maims... it pains... it dims you. It drives you to the edge of insanity and over... and one day ends your trip on a slab in the morgue... with a tag around your toe.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

You can't count on that ring for everything, you know.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Defending is one thing — annihilating an entire race is another.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

It's like a Teen Titans reunion! Who brought the chips, dip and spiked punch?

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Oh, well... We all just sort of shot out a name. Dick picked Starfire, Donna nominated that Argent girl, Wally wanted Jesse Quick in, I had some stuff to make up to Damage. And Garth picked Vic, here.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Stuff it, Grayson ! I don't want friends who cuddle me all the time and tell me I'm effin' perfect!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

She said she hates me.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

You mean has Lilith separated a psycho-solid parasite entity from an unconscious autistic child? I'd have to say no.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Planet of the junkies. And we're heston. Of all the places to end up...

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You could have given it to me, Dick. I'd have saved everyone, just like you did. I'm as good as you.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I'm gonna enjoy murdering that one-eyed freak.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Oh, sweet Jesus. That's why I couldn't get a handle on this. Deathstroke's got me hooked on something even worse than heroin. Stupid junkie...You knew something was different this time, didn't you, Roy? But you ignored it, because it felt so damn good.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

With our secret identities exposed, we're useless against criminals!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Beneath the bluster of the Green Arrow, Oliver Queen was a man with time on his hands. And I've spent my life trying to be that same kind of man.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

It's not every day you watch a father figure you've thought was dead get fried by a demon... only to be told by a ghost that he's not really dead, but just hanging around Heaven, talking to an old friend -- who's also now not really dead, apparently.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

They know what happens if Amazo shrinks like the Atom and comes at their foreheads with the speed of Wally and the strength of Clark. These past Leaguers...they've run this scenario before...wargamed it out. This isn't a street fight...it's a military assault.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

We all fight for different things. But we all still fight. I'm coming Lian. Everything we need -- it's all within us.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

All I know is, whenever scary superteams show up from the future, there's always an initial fistfight, followed by the obvious misunderstanding. In this case, we all started shaking hands with everyone as friends. That just means there's only one thing for us to do later.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

If we only knew what, Mal? That were going to break up eventually? We probably did-- But none of us would admit it! But that doesn't mean the years we've spent together were wasted! We grew up together--helped each other over the rough spots-- But now it's time to fly solo... So each of us can continue growing!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Aren't you sick of being second-string? Titans began because we were all sidekicks. Just us kids trying to make a difference in our own right. We're not kids anymore. And the J.S.A. and the Justice League can't handle everything. With this, we can pull our weight.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

And as for you -- you take another step towards me and your hooded friend gets seriously shafted. Get it?

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Boy! Did Funny-Arrow make chumps out of us! Let's get back to that circus!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

From now on, things will be real solid for you now--behind bars!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I can't go out alone! People will know something is wrong!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

You're through, Lance! You not only posed as Bonzo--but really made a monkey of yourself!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Nightwing, chill. Team morale demands that you relax and enjoy yourself.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Do you know Nightwing, Connor? Guy's got this sidekick-hangover thing about being in second place to Batman. Well, check me out. I'm in second place to Ollie, and to you, and to Nightwing... So Nightwing feels a little inferior to Batman sometimes, huh? Well, so what?! Get over it already!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I don't know how I feel about all this, so what do you expect me to say to Donna? I know Chesh has to pay for what she did. But then I look at our daughter and the thought of Chesh spending the rest of her life in prison or worse...Makes me sick.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Jeez, Dinah. What the hell are we up against?

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

From the speed in Hal's voice, I can can tell he's proud. But this isn't Hal's victory. Or Ollie's. All those years ago, they're the ones who ran off. Who threw me out. No. This victory belongs to the person who took me in. The person who, at my lowest point...saved my life.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I'm a pro at waking up in weird places, but this?

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Look who's telling me not to be headstrong-- The Ego-King of the western hemisphere!

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I'm sharing a very small piece of the pain I've just gone through these past few days. The kind of pain thousands of kids are going through every day because an uncaring and unthinking society turns its back on them. Drugs are a symptom... and you... like the rest of society... attack the symptom... not the disease! But this symptom is worse than most -- it maims... it pains... it dims you. It drives you to the edge of insanity and over... and one day ends your trip on a slab in the morgue... with a tag around your toe.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I'm scared. For the first time in a very long time... I'm scared. I hear gunshots in my sleep. I can't... I can't be thinking about... the risks. I can't be thinking about leaving Lian all alone. I can't be.... thinking about... dying. I don't think I should be out there in the field. I'm going to get someone hurt.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

One of you is working against us. And no one is leaving until I find out who.

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You don't want to lead a family. Fine, screw it -- this is work. No one says you have to be emotionally connected. Hell, you think the JLA has sunday potluck dinner? Maybe that's always been our greatest fault. We never built a team, Dick. We created a family.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

I hope you don't think I'm going to pull my punches because you're a woman. I make different allowances for psychotic metahuman bald chicks.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Stand down or I'm going to shoot you. This will fire a charge with a radioactive burst. Even the most impervious of you will feel it. And feel it bad. Except Starfire, who I'd have to shoot twice.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

They want to brainwash heroes? They want to assassinate and manipulate me and my friends? The Society comes here, they'll fine a note... a note that says don't screw with the Outsiders.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

Keep it together, Roy. Stay Conscious. Focus. Lian...Without me, she'd be scared. Lian...Without me, she'd grow up all alone. Lian...I can't let her down. I have to-- get-- up. I wont let her fall.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)

When I was little, I used to think, of the three, Ollie was the toughest. I was wrong.

--Roy Harper (New Earth)