Jean Grey (Earth-616)/Quotes

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 Iceman! Stop that you juvenile Jerry Lewis! 

—X-Men Vol 1 10

 Tomorrow, I must leave the X-Men--forever! 

—X-Men Vol 1 23

 He's back...and, he seems stronger...more dangerous than ever! 

—X-Men Vol 1 27

 Now, you and Bobby have a bite to eat and get some rest – before I take you over my knee telekinetically!! 

—X-Men Vol 1 34

 I did. And in you've forgotten, my small-but-volatile friend-- the name is PHOENIX! This is my apartment. 

—Iron Fist Vol 1 15

 If I didn't know better, I'd say those thoughts I just picked up sounded like a proposal. 

—X-Men Vol 1 136

 Scott, am I worth it? I destroyed a world-- in my mind, I can still hear the screams of the dying-- and it felt good! I don’t want that feeling ever again. And yet-- I do! 

—X-Men Vol 1 137

 He's back...and, he seems stronger...more dangerous than ever! 

—X-Men Pocket Book (UK) Vol 1 23

 We must do something to protect our kind! 

—X-Factor Vol 1 1

 I never wanted that. I wanted to help other mutants. I thought the X-Factor cover would work for us, but what if I was wrong? 

—X-Factor Vol 1 4

 The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is working for the government? 

—X-Factor Vol 1 8

 As Scarlett O'Hara said, "Tomorrow is another day." And, perhaps, a better one. Provided we have the courage to face it. We all live with demons, Ororo-- that, a telepath knows better than anyone-- the chalenge is, do we rule them... or they, us? 

—Classic X-Men Vol 1 2

 But now I have this horrible feeling... something terrible is going to happen! 

—X-Factor Vol 1 12

 Let's go for a walk... so you can pay your respects... and show me the place where your Phoenix died. 

—X-Factor Annual Vol 1 2

 It's incredible. Eerie. She's so like me! It's like gazing into a distorted mirror. 

—X-Factor Vol 1 37

 You lose, Sinister. This is my mind -- my soul -- my life -- and I mean to keep them to myself! 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 243

 Phoenix? Oh no! Don't tell me... you must've had some kind of run-in with her, right? But I'm not Phoenix... not really. 

—X-Factor Annual Vol 1 4

 Fools! You dare to trifle with the Phoenix? 

—X-Factor Vol 1 48

 I'm sorry Forge... Sean can't speak for himself right now. I'm afraid, since you saw us last... there have been some changes. 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 262

 There was no option. I had to telepathically reach in... and turn off his mind. 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 292

 He has plunged the people of Earth into a trance! If we allow the trance to fully take hold, humanity will be lost to us forever! 

—Sleepwalker Vol 1 18

 Look at what you've done to this man, Peter... look at the face of the future -- and then say a prayer for us all. 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 302

 Jubilee, we come into the world alone -- and we leave the same way... the time we spend in-between... time spent alive, sharing, learning... together... is all that makes life worth living. 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 303

 You're a firecracker, Creed... and I am an atom bomb! 

—X-Men Vol 2 28

 Slym is right, Nate. It's necessary for you to disguise yourself because there are many people who fear and hate what they don't understand. But there will come a day, I promise, when you'll be accepted-- respected-- for who and what you are. 

—Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix Vol 1 2

 I'll be fine -- it's not like I haven't already 'died' while burning up in re-entry, right? 

—X-Men Vol 2 43

 But the love Scott and I share was enough to pull us through then and through the ages, no matter where we are, it always will be. 

—Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix Vol 1 2

 You constantly remember Phoenix, Scott. And Madelyne Pryor. There are all these negative images of women who you thought were me at various times, and all their memories are marching around your mind wearing this outfit. But I'm here with you, I'm standing right in front of you, and I'm tired of their ghosts. I claimed the name "Phoenix" as part of a plan to claim this identity. To empower myself. I'm tired of suppressing my abilities just because I'm afraid that exploring them might upset you. 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 355

 I know your heart is in the right place, Scott - that you're only doing exactly what you think Charles would do - but sometimes you make me want to reach inside that tight little mind of yours and shake loose some consideration! 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 356

 Who are you? Don't I deserve to know who it is who is going to kill me? Why are you hesitating? I know you... Don't I? Something...in your eyes...so familiar -- 

—Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 3

 No, stop -- stop -- Listen to me, all of you! Scott's still alive, inside Apocalypse... but his body can't handle the forces at play here! 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 378

 Oh, I have a knack for intuiting things. That's all. 

—X-Men Unlimited Vol 1 27

 Scott... be straight with me. I haven't tried reading your mind. You didn't sleep with Emma when you were both in Hong Kong did you? 

—New X-Men Vol 1 118

 I don't want you to get hurt, but you have to understand... The more you annoy me the more I can't help thinking about deconstructing you, molecule by molecule, memory by memory... until there's nothing left but screaming, traumatized atoms. 

—New X-Men Vol 1 120

 Professor X tried to kill his twin sister while they were both still in the womb. We ought to talk... 

—New X-Men Vol 1 121

 Shh. Stop talking. You have to let go of all that now. It's time to die, Charles. It's all right. Let go. Die, Charles. I'm going to catch you. 

—New X-Men Vol 1 125

 Give up? You should know me better than that, Creed! 

—X-Men Unlimited Vol 1 35

 Live, Scott. Live. All I ever did was die on you. 

—New X-Men Vol 1 150

 I'm always Jean. And I'm always the Phoenix. I died. I scattered in a trillion directions. And then started to pull together again, outside the White Hot Room. But I'm starting to see now. Parts of me... Parts of me never came home. 

—X-Men Phoenix Endsong Vol 1 3

 You're all just trying to creep out the girl, and it's not going to work. And I'm tired of not being able to see. Ix-nay, og-fay. (...) I take it back! 

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 2

 If there's two of them, I quit. 

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 5

 Well, I wouldn't have cried if it had left me being able to fly. 

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 7

 He's okay because he's Scott... ...and he never lets his guard down. 

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 10

 I can't believe you two. While you're arguing about fashion, Jameson's ramping up anti-mutant hysteria just to sell papers! 

—X-Men / Spider-Man Vol 1 1

 Well then, little spirit. Prepare. 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 510

 There is no time for talk, my friends. You must flee back to the safety of your own minds. All of you, immediately. The only thing now that can save Logan's soul... is the fire of the Phoenix. 

—Wolverine Vol 4 8

 I'm okay. Great day to find out I'm an untrained psychic. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 4

 We're not going back. I've seen what is going to become of our lives. I've seen everything that gets us to this point. I'm not having it. No. We go back, and Charles Xavier, you said it, Charles Xavier will read our minds and know what Hank did here, and he will mind-wipe all of this from us. We'll never know that no matter what we do in the course of our lives as X-Men... we end up in torture and disaster. And disaster. All of us. Everything we're going to go back and fight for ends in my death, Charles Xavier dying, and Scott becoming everything he says he despises... and if that's the way it's going to be, if that's our destiny, then we have to make sure it was worth it. We have to right things here. We have to do what we set out to do. We put things the way they're supposed to be, and then we go back. Xavier can mind-wipe the hell out of us. Hell, I'll do it myself. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 5

 We're staying. It was decided. He just needs to calm down. So I helped him calm down. Everything is fine. I can read your minds. Stop worrying. I'm in total control. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 8

 If you're trying to see which one of us can make the other one more angry... you win. The difference between us is you project illusions... sure, good convincing illusions! I project reality! Your darkest fears! The real you! 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 14

 When were you going to tell me that you're in love with me? 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 15

 Enough! You're right, I am guilty. I am a monster. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 24

 If you knew... everything... what is about to happen wouldn't be happening, you bastard. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 28

 An alternate Earth. Now I'm in the wrong time and space. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 32

 I-I don't know. I don't know why any of these things are happening, but I do know that we are back. The X-Men are back and we're not going to let it happen anymore. And you're with us now... you're here and you're not alone. 

—Extraordinary X-Men Vol 1 7

 You said it yourself, Logan... nights are the worst. So I thought you could use some company to help you get through this one. 

—Old Man Logan Vol 2 8

 H-Hank asked me to come. He um... said there was something big he was meaning to show us. All original five of us. 

—All-New X-Men Vol 2 19

 I'm not her! I'm not that Jean Grey! 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 1

 Jimmy -- I want you to come with us. We want you to come with us. We can help you. We can help each other. 

—X-Men: Blue Vol 1 5

 When I look at her now, she's not the Phoenix. She's not even the high-and-mighty Jean Grey. She's just... me... and she's confused and scared, too. I can maybe... somehow... I can help her... spare her. Spare myself. 

—Generations: Phoenix & Jean Grey Vol 1 1

 Snikt snikt, crimson jammies. 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 5

 Have you not been paying attention, little me? What do you think will happen when you meet the bird? The Phoenix is equal parts good and evil. Pleasure and pain. Both sides. The whole coin. 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 6

 Crazy doesn't matter! Your childish ego doesn't matter! It doesn't matter what people think! 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 7

 This might be just me... but does anybody else feel like we just blundered into a trap? 

—X-Men: Gold Vol 2 13

 We've infiltrated the deepest, darkest corner of the White Queen's mind -- the place she least wants us to see. 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 8

 What do you want, Emma? An apology? You're right. That was a huge invasion of privacy. It was last ditch, desperate and gross. But I'm not sorry... you were hiding the one thing on Earth that might just help Jean survive the Phoenix Force. 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 9

 What's it matter if we tell them everything, Scott? If we manage to make things right, this little meeting will probably never happen. 

—X-Men: Blue Vol 1 18

 I didn't want any of this. You could've left me alone. But no... you just had to get rid of me. The imperfection. The one you didn't choose. 

—Jean Grey Vol 1 11

 I know that was meant to hurt me... but I got to see my husband one last time. And that was all I wanted. I'm done now. With all of this. I won't play god with you anymore. And I won't let you hurt me or the people I love ever again. All of this -- using people, playing with their lives, building fake worlds -- it's not right. It's not fair to do that to me -- or anyone. I know I asked for your help. I don't know why you gave it. And I don't know why you keep coming back. Of all the beings in the universe, you chose me. That used to make me feel special. Now, I don't feel anything at all. I was supposed to die on that shuttle all of those years ago. I know that now. But you keep bringing me back. You want me to be something I'm not. Something I'll never be. And I wanted things from you. Things no person should have. I don't know what you are. What your role in the universe is, but it's not here. It's not with me. 

—Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey Vol 1 5

 I can't help but think... that I never said goodbye. 

—X-Men: Blue Vol 1 22

 Thanks. It's good to be back. It'll be nice... to go back home. It'll be good to rest... to heal. But first, we need to figure out how to extract the weaponized Symbiotes from their hosts... and take them all back to their world. We still have some work ahead of us. Most of the Poisons are dead. I get this psychic impression, though, that there are still some out there... Friends... and enemies... Who somehow survived being severed from their queen. I think it'll be a long time before we fully understand these creatures. I could sense what the poisons wanted... I could feel how frightened their were. I know something about them, though. I was connected to them... to all of them. I've never felt such fear. No matter how powerful they might have become... they were all afraid. In the end, that was what defeated them. The bond we all feel with one another. 

—Venomized Vol 1 5

 Our new mutant nation starts here. 

—X-Men: Red Vol 1 4

 I need you to speak, Black Bolt. 

—X-Men: Red Annual Vol 1 1

 We're going to crush the lies. We're going to weaponize the truth. 

—X-Men: Red Vol 1 5

 Magneto's coming for you. We know it. And we're going to stop him. 

—X-Men: Blue Vol 1 31

 Namor. She's coming for you. She's going to attack Atlantis! 

—X-Men: Red Vol 1 7

 You done lecturing me? 

—Extermination Vol 1 3

 All right then. Let's tie up some loose ends. 

—X-Men: Blue Vol 1 36

 X-Men, protect Cyclops at all cost. 

—Extermination Vol 1 4

 This isn't a war. 

—X-Men: Red Vol 1 10

 Where is Kitty Pryde?! 

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 5 1

 Funny. We're two of the strongest mutants in the world and tragedies like this can still make us feel powerless. 

—X-Men: The Exterminated Vol 1 1

 You've caused a lot of pain. But I don't want you dead, Cassandra. I want you healed. 

—X-Men: Red Vol 1 11

 You told me how to beat you. 

—Extermination Vol 1 5

 I just feel off. Something's wrong. 

—Age of X-Man Alpha Vol 1 1

 Wait... why would you lie? 

—Age of X-Man: The Marvelous X-Men Vol 1 4

 Life doesn't make sense in isolation. We need to be free to make mistakes and to make those mistakes together. 

—Age of X-Man Omega Vol 1 1

 The Children of the Vault gave Storm a machine virus that's going to kill her in the next 30 days. We ought to talk. 

—Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost Vol 1 1

 No. Their thoughts are manic -- madness -- driven by the fear of their queens. Scott, you need to imagine the control each of these queens must have. It must be absolute. Total. Imagine living your entire life as a predator -- hunting whatever you felt needed to be hunted. Consuming whatever you desired to consume. Just consider what it would be like having millions of your species -- millions of your race -- willing to die just so you could have more than what you already had. Consider the appetite of it... the power of it. Try to imagine what that must feel like. Now imagine something unexpected -- unforeseen -- that could take all of it away from you. And worse than that... it would turn you into that which you have lorded over for thousands of years: a drone. How badly would you overreact to this threat? How badly would you want that threat to die? These queens would sacrifice everything to hold on to their power. That's the threat the King Egg is... They will kill everything that stands in between them and the King Egg. Everything. 

—X-Men Vol 5 9

 You're trying hard to be a hero, Black Tom, but here's something I wish wasn't true: X-Force isn't about heroics. It's about getting the dirty $#&% done. By whatever means necessary. 

—X-Force Vol 6 10

 The X-Men. If there's one thing that Scott and I have learned through the beginning of our great Krakoan experiment. It's this... The people of our nation need to feel like someone is acting on their behalf. Not deciding what's best for them -- not deciding what is and is not in their best interest -- but someone who fights for them. And that's us. 

—X-Men Vol 5 16

 Ladies and gentlemen... humans and mutants... I give you... your X-Men. 

—X-Men Vol 5 21

 You risked much by entering my mind, and I'm still clinging to my kindness for your benefit, but you must know... how small you are, demon. 

—X-Men Vol 6 4

 The past defines the present. They're pathways of our destiny...at the root of every problem...and no one's roots run quite as deep as Logan's. 

—Life of Wolverine Infinity Comic Vol 1 1

 Please, Scott. Let's accord him the honor of his position. It's-- Mayor Kingpin. 

—Devil's Reign: X-Men Vol 1 1

 Stop the ceremony! There will be no wedding! 

—Love Unlimited Infinity Comic Vol 1 21

 People are getting hurt back home... because of some problem you have with me? Then let's deal with this. You want to go... let's go! 

—Dark Web: X-Men Vol 1 2

 Magik, the rest of the X-Men could really use your gifts right now, and this fight between Maddie and me is over because... I'm surrendering. 

—Dark Web: X-Men Vol 1 3

 You've turned the carrot down enough, Lin Li...the stick is long overdue. 

—X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic Vol 1 90

 Hope. Exodus. You have to help me. I'm-- Jean is the house where I live--and I am the house where Jean Grey lives. The White Hot Room is where the Phoenix lives. You'll learn more about me, boys, in time! I hope I wasn't too rough... 

—Immortal X-Men Vol 1 17

 I won't be in space forever. It's just until the Phoenix and I...until we...figure some stuff out. 

—X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic Vol 1 1

 Oh, I wouldn't worry...whatever it is, I'm sure someone's got it all under control. 

—X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic Vol 1 2

 You're okay, Scott. I found you. I'll always find you. 

—X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic Vol 1 3

 We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living. 

—Jean Grey (Earth-616)

 No. Their thoughts are manic -- madness -- driven by the fear of their queens. Scott, you need to imagine the control each of these queens must have. It must be absolute. Total. Imagine living your entire life as a predator -- hunting whatever you felt needed to be hunted. Consuming whatever you desired to consume. Just consider what it would be like having millions of your species -- millions of your race -- willing to die just so you could have more than what you already had. Consider the appetite of it... the power of it. Try to imagine what that must feel like. Now imagine something unexpected -- unforeseen -- that could take all of it away from you. And worse than that... it would turn you into that which you have lorded over for thousands of years: a drone. How badly would you overreact to this threat? How badly would you want that threat to die? These queens would sacrifice everything to hold on to their power. That's the threat the King Egg is... They will kill everything that stands in between them and the King Egg. Everything. 

—Brood (Race)

Marvel Girl	What is this?! Where am I?
Phoenix Force	You're in the White-Hot Room.
Marvel Girl	The White-Hot what now?
Phoenix Force	It is a nexus between all Phoenix hosts and our eternal flame. A place of rest and contemplation. Home to every being with whom I've merged. Every Phoenix host leaves a piece of itself here with me.[1]

—White Hot Room

Jean Grey	Why have you done this to me?
Stryfe	How ironic. I was just about to ask you -- the same question.

—Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 295

Cyclops	You weren't getting used to becoming all-powerful, were you?
Marvel Girl	Well, I wouldn't have cried if it had left me being able to fly.

—X-Men First Class Vol 1 7

Cyclops	Higher!
Angel	I'm trying! You two need to lose weight!
Marvel Girl	It's Scott! He snacks!

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 3

Hank	As the guardian or whatever of that Nexus, the Man-Thing hates fear.
Jean	You know what, Hank? So do I.

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 8

Mr. Marin	Jean Grey! Bobby Drake! And--(gulp)--Henry McCoy!
Jean Grey	We know who we are, but why do you?
Mr. Doyle	P-Please, don't get mad, Miss Grey...
Mr. Marin	Don't worry, she's not you-know-who yet.

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 11

Cyclops	You can fly!
Marvel Girl	Great, now we are completely done with Warren!
Cyclops	Come on, Jean, that's not what I meant.

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 13

Marvel Girl	...getting hard to breathe...
Beast	We can rip the disks off our clothes, but there's no surviving this fall!
Angel	Well that's easy, Hank. Don't fall.

—X-Men First Class Vol 2 15

Past Robert Drake	First I can't get over the fact that they purposely made Wolverine... and now I can't get over the fact that after they saw what Wolverine turned out like, they thought it might be a good idea to clone him into a teenage girl.
Past Jean Grey	A girl that Scott Summers quite fancies.
Katherine Pryde	Scott Summers fancies the genetic clone of Wolverine?
Past Jean Grey	Yes, he does.
Katherine Pryde	Shudder.

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 20

Marvel Girl	But here's the problem, Miss Hill... Why couldn't these Utopians live there?
Cyclops	Why were they under attack?
Beast	Why after all we have been through is no mutant safe from attack?
Angel	How come the Avengers can set up shop anywhere they want and everyone is cool with it?
X-23	But mutants... With mutants it's always hit first, ask questions latter.
Iceman	It's enough to make people a little paranoid, yeah?
Phil Coulson	They were lying.
Maria Hill	Not about the last part.

—All-New X-Men Vol 1 41

Cyclops	Mutantkind has been given another chance. We're out there doing something good. We should be ecstatic. But I can't shake the feeling that we're dropping the ball.
Marvel Girl	Do your other super hero pals love your pessimism as much as we do? Or is it an acquired taste? Don't go changing on us, Scott Summers. If you let yourself relax a little, we might think some sort of pod person has taken your place. Speaking of weirdness and acquired tastes... let's report to the boss.

—X-Men: Blue Vol 1 1

Ikaris	There's one more thing... kill no Eternals
Marvel Girl	We'll always do our best, but--
Ikaris	If you kill Eternals, I will not help you.

—X-Men Vol 6 13

Progenitor	Yes, sometimes you are a saint, Jean Grey. But at other times, you are a violent bully. And, above all, once, you destroyed a world.
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)	And I'm going to destroy you.
Progenitor	And again, violence.

—A.X.E.: X-Men Vol 1 1

Marvel Girl	Look at me, Scott.
Cyclops	Wh-what are you doing?
Marvel Girl	I'm holding back your powers with mine. I want to see your face. Say what you're thinking so we can all hear.
Cyclops	Yeah, I think wiping out the Brood is a great idea.
Marvel Girl	How very human of you.

—X-Men Vol 6 21

1. ↑ Jean Grey #11

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