History Quotes / BrokenBird

->Maia started sobbing, gripping her arms as she sat down in an alley. This wasn't her! She was supposed to be strong and brave! She wasn't supposed to break down crying! She was the Queen of Mercenaries! Another voice, one that belonged to her tormentor, told her that she was just a lovely doll just waiting to be used. That she didn't need to think. That she was only made to make others feel good.

->''Do you remember the book you gave me? '''The Eagle in the Valley.''' I read many stories with my mother. After she passed, that one… is all I thought about. I was the eagle in the stormy valley. Lost, alone, abandoned by my own. Too weak to carry myself away from the clouds. When I could, I flew here. But… The clouds followed. I despaired. Cold. Always cold. Until… you.''

-->--'''Fantine''', ''Theatre/LesMiserables''

->''"I... I wanted to go to school too. I wanted play with friends... ride a ferris wheel. But I couldn't. Because I shouldn't even be alive. I... I'm a woodpecker with the poison beak. I hated and hurt a lot of people. It's the only way I could live. '''[[DeathSeeker That's why I have to die...]]''' '''I CAN'T FORGIVE MYSELF ANY LONGER!''' That's why I can't... The truth is... what I want is happiness... but I can't have it!"''

->“Maybe,” Tattletale mumbled. I could feel her fingernails against the fabric of my suit, at my back. “Fuck this. I hate feeling so dumb. So much shit I don’t know, shit I can’t know. Like fucking [[TheOmniscient Ziz]] here. Fuck, I’ve barely ever given a crap about anyone except myself and my friends, and now I’m [[ClusterFBomb fucking]] caring what happens to everyone, when I can’t ''do'' anything about it.”

->"Asuka leaned into the kiss. She had lost much and suffered terribly, but from the ashes, she had risen anew."

->"We make our own lives, not the lives others want for us." Stop, a part of Asuka screamed as she spoke. Just stop now. Please stop. "If you depend on others, then you are weak, because you can’t live for yourself. It’s always what others want and what they impose on you. Even if it’s your own mother."

->''Look at you! The universe tried its best to destroy you and it only made you stronger.''

->''And Kara? ... You'll survive this. He just knocked you off your cloud, that's all.''

->But [[ComicBook/PowerGirl she]] had to be tough. Finding out that so many years of her life were a pre-programmed lie, coming to a strange world, finding only one man of Krypton and then losing him, turning from innocence into grim experience on a planet she never made... she had to be tough, or break.

->''See, in the end, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} you]] were just too sweet, just too optimistic and happy. I take you from home, I give you a best friend and make her hate you... Nope. No matter what I put you through, you always looked on the bright side. Bah!''

->She used to be so formidable, relentless. There was something majestic about how Blue moved, in long sweeping dresses or her black court robe. Her hair flowed like a veil around her when she wasn't in court, and Yellow found it so pleasant to part it and see her face bared, and those clear blue eyes. That was the woman who had captured Yellow's attention back in university: her regal aura, her calm yet authoritative voice to her peers, and her detachment to most things going around her. She had quickly assembled a group of loyal followers. ...Yellow looked at her now, saw the deep permanent bags underneath her eyes, how sunken her posture had become, but it didn't matter – she was still her Blue.

->''"Blackbird singing in the dead of night\\
Take these broken wings and learn to fly"''
-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "Blackbird"

-->-- '''Emily''', ''Series/{{Revenge}}''

->''"Women in the media for so long were always [[TheChick the emotional support]], the damsels, the smiling pretty faces, so in the 90's, [[EvolvingTrope there was a desperate need to change that]]. Oh, not by making them [[HollywoodHomely unpretty]], we wouldn't do that, but we suddenly made them cold, bitter, confrontational, and overly strong, to go out of their way to show that they're not those old emotional stereotypes, and instead make way for [[StrawFeminist new emotional stereotypes]]. For you see, in every 90's film, the woman behind this strong independent wall that won't let everybody in, ''[quivering, feminine voice]'' [[TheWoobie is a sad little bunny rabbit]] [[DefrostingIceQueen that will eventually let down her defences]] and reveal a [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragic backstory]]. ''[normal voice]'' So you see, she wasn't a strong, confident worker just because she was a strong, confident worker. ''[jumps back to the feminine voice]'' Deep down she just wants to be held like any other fragile woman. Oh, I don't want to think! I just want to be loved!"''

[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Before it evolved into a bird]]."''

-->-- ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''

->''"I... I wanted to go to school too. I wanted play with friends... ride a ferris wheel. But I couldn't. Because I shouldn't even be alive. I... I'm a woodpecker with the poison beak. I hated and hurt a lot of people. It's the only way I could live. '''[[DeathSeeker That's why I have to die...]]''' '''I CAN'T FORGIVE MYSELF ANY LONGER!''' That's why I can't... [[TearJerker the truth is... what I want is happiness... but I can't have it!]]"''

->'''AU!Fiona:''' True love didn't get me out of that tower, I did. I saved myself. Don't you get it? It's all just a big fairy tale!\\

'''AU!Fiona:''' And how would you know? Did you grow up locked away in a dragon's keep? Did you live all alone in a miserable tower? Did you cry yourself to sleep every night waiting for a true love that never came?

-->-- ''WebSite/TextsFromLastNight''

-->-- '''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''' described by an enemy, ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton''

-->-- '''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}''' to '''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''

->'''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]]:''' [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} She]] spends all of her time in that cape. She's missing out on so much... because I think she's afraid to lose it again.\\
'''Comicbook/LoisLane:''' Kara's been through a lot of trauma.\\

-->-- ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac''

->''“Maybe,” Tattletale mumbled. I could feel her fingernails against the fabric of my suit, at my back. “Fuck this. I hate feeling so dumb. So much shit I don’t know, shit I can’t know. Like fucking [[TheOmniscient Ziz]] here. Fuck, I’ve barely ever given a crap about anyone except myself and my friends, and now I’m [[ClusterFBomb fucking]] caring what happens to everyone, when I can’t ''do'' anything about it.”''

->''"Asuka leaned into the kiss. She had lost much and suffered terribly, but from the ashes, she had risen anew."''

->''"We make our own lives, not the lives others want for us." Stop, a part of Asuka screamed as she spoke. Just stop now. Please stop. "If you depend on others, then you are weak, because you can’t live for yourself. It’s always what others want and what they impose on you. Even if it’s your own mother."''

->Look at you! The universe tried its best to destroy you and it only made you stronger.

->And Kara? ... You'll survive this. He just knocked you off your cloud, that's all.

->See, in the end, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} you]] were just too sweet, just too optimistic and happy. I take you from home, I give you a best friend and make her hate you... Nope. No matter what I put you through, you always looked on the bright side. Bah!

->"''I do not care, Father! [[StrawNihilist A world without]] [[TheLostLenore her]] [[StrawNihilist is empty]]. [[StrawNihilist A LIFE without]] [[TheLostLenore her]] [[StrawNihilist is empty]].''"

->''She used to be so formidable, relentless. There was something majestic about how Blue moved, in long sweeping dresses or her black court robe. Her hair flowed like a veil around her when she wasn't in court, and Yellow found it so pleasant to part it and see her face bared, and those clear blue eyes. That was the woman who had captured Yellow's attention back in university: her regal aura, her calm yet authoritative voice to her peers, and her detachment to most things going around her. She had quickly assembled a group of loyal followers. ...Yellow looked at her now, saw the deep permanent bags underneath her eyes, how sunken her posture had become, but it didn't matter – she was still her Blue.''

->''"Think of it, Batman. To never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face...and a warm hand to hold. Oh, yes...I'd '''kill''' for that.''

->''"Think of it, Batman. To never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face...and a warm hand to hold. Oh, yes...I'd '''kill'''for that.''

-->-- '''Hades''', ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''

-->-- '''Riven''', VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends

-->-- "[[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Wings]]", a song by Jeff and Casey Lee Williams

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'''

->'''''(262)''': ''But he's like a baby bird with a broken wing that I want to FUCK.''

->'''''(262)''': But he's like a baby bird with a broken wing that I want to FUCK.''