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Hope. Could there be hope in this city? And if there could, could I allow it in me?
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #1)
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Here in this file are the pieces of my broken spirit...I keep trying to go back. To understand, how? Why? Could it be so painful to be alive?
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #2)
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I wait for a hint of dawn, to know that I've made it through another night. Einstein only took naps. You're okay. Shhh. Just breathe,
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #1)
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Today, a new life begins. A new promise is made. Like you, I am reborn. My pain will be my power. It geysers out of me. It floods me with rage. I will make them pay. I will walk them to the gates of hell.
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #5)
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I walk through the dream again and again, each time ironing out any wrinkles that may occur, till I can see it perfectly. Judgement day is finally here!
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #6)
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A fire. A fire is burning inside me. The lights are coming on again. All these rooms. Dark. Abandoned. Alive again.
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #2)
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No one is coming, so what are you going to do about it?
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #3)
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How do they go on...in a city that tells them day after day that they are fractured and broken...that there is no way out or up?
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #1)
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What happened in these homes....I try to block it out. But it lives in my body. So my body rejects itself. Like I'm a cancer. I snuff myself out into black so the pain doesn't eat me alive.
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Paul Dano (The Riddler: Year One (2022-) #4)