This Country Must Break Apart

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“Am I bad son, Alfred?”

“Master Richard, why on earth would you ever—”

“Bruce still visits them, you know. His parents. Once a week. And the clock that leads to the cave is still set to the time they died. All these years later…their deaths are still what drives him.

“My Dad used to say I looked too far forward. That I brushed off the things I didn’t want to deal with. Is that why it doesn’t hurt the same way anymore, Alfred? Is that why when I think about them, I only think about their lives? Am I brushing off what happened to them?”

“What you’re doing is healing. You’re accepting that things change. But moving on with one’s life and forgetting are two separate things. And, dare I say it’s better to celebrate the way some lived…than to be driven by the way they died.”

It would be months before I’d realize how right Alfred was.

[Nightwing #0 2012]

This is my favourite scene in this issue. It speaks volumes about the difference between Dick and Bruce, and Alfred’s wisdom —so often brushed off by Bruce— is always taken into account by Dick.

Excellent writing and gorgeous art.

LotR Meme | [2/3] Deaths; Boromir

↬ Be at peace son of Gondor.

“I sit there and say, ‘Please don’t call me up, I am too shy.’ But once I get up there, I take control of myself. Being onstage is magic. There’s nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who’s out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it’s all over, I swear it is.”

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

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