Rachel Summers (Earth-811)/Quotes

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Quotes by Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Brian Grey. Grampa's kid brother, mom's favorite uncle. Master carpenter, little league coach, soccer dad.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Derry Campbell. Mom-side cousin, red-state and proud of it. Lifelong texican, big laugh, salty language, slinky skirt and cowboy boots, perfect hair, better makeup and a diamond nose-chip.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Why is it that when I almost destroy the universe, everyone gets upset?

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

The X-Men thought enough of Professor Xavier's dream to offer up their lives. Is it so much to ask that we fight to preserve it?

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Sometimes, kiddo, the choices aren't clear-cut, or easy. And the victories aren't absolute. Sometimes, you have to settle for a draw.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

We're too late. The Anti-Phoenix has joined with Necrom. I can feel him in my mind. He's coming after me.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

We should all live for the moment. It could be our last.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Aunt Julia was a chef. No cookbooks, no TV Show, no franchise, just the one restaurant - serving the best homefood in five states.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Julian didn't like crowds. He loved South Park, even if he wasn't supposed to watch it. He came into the world with this little scar on his forehead, so of course he totally bonded with Harry Potter. Hooked me, too. We read the books together.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Mary-Margaret and Kindra. Cousins. My age. We talked boys and fashion and music and scandal, and concluded I was woeful about them all.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Uncle Liam. Pastor Liam. He loved Keats and Dylan Thomas and James Joyce and had a voice like honey to read them aloud. His sermons were a celebration of language as well as faith.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Terry Maguire... He was trying to save his kid brother.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Mary-Margaret and Kindra. Cousins. My age. We talked boys and fashion and music and scandal, and concluded I was woeful about them all.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

I'm not my mother. I'm not Phoenix. I'm my own woman... and before I'm done... they'll wish I were the Phoenix.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Uncle Roger. Played the jazz cornet. Session musician, good but not great. One of the "Hurricane Homeless".^[1]

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

I know your real name. I know you're lying to us about why you're here. Come clean or be burned.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Terry Maguire. Eyes that sparkled and a smile to die for, when he looked at me. We had barely five minutes together, but for a telepath that can be a lifetime. He was going to call tomorrow, invite me to the movies. He wanted to kiss me. He was trying to save his kid brother.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

No... I can't deny it any longer! I've made a terrible mistake. Somehow, I'm stuck in the wrong past. And because of my stupidity... the world is doomed!

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

...and I claim the power and the name of Phoenix... that are mine by right!

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

My dreams are nightmares.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

I'm not my mother. I'm not Phoenix. I'm my own woman... and before I'm done... they'll wish I were the Phoenix.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

But the idea of talking to anyone... well it scares me.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

I wanted to kill them, Kurt. More than almost anything. But my family's got enough bad karma to balance already. So I made a choice. I will not kill. Yes, I'm my mother's daughter. And I mean to find my destiny in a way that brings us both honor.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

What I saw in that poor man's mind... The Shi'ar are monsters, Professor.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

The Phoenix knows me, remember? It likes me.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Krakoa's talking to me now. He says he never wanted to attack us. The Hellfire Club made him do it. He says... He says he's a mutant just like us. He keeps apologizing. I think he's crying. You won't believe this... He's asking if he can be an X-Man now?

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Whatever it is you're up to, Stryfe, it's over.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Whole attack took less than five minutes. They killed three security personnel and an off-duty NYPD detective. And they kidnapped the Mayor.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Mesmero made us see what he wanted us to see.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Mesmero. You're supposed to be in prison...

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

I took the name "Prestige" to put the past behind me. No more "Phoenix." No more "Marvel Girl." No more past. No more future. Just me. Moving forward. And damn you to Hell for trying to pull me back in.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

We've got an anti-mutant serial killer loose in a home for mutants.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Conversations with Rachel Summers (Earth-811)

Spider-Man

Please! Just tell me what you've seen here, Rachel!

Marvel Girl

I think your Aunt May's dead...

— Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #6

The Beyonder

You have failed me. As all humans seem to.

Phoenix

Them's the breaks.

— Uncanny X-Men #203

Storm

We're approaching Braddock Manor… max stealth configuration. We're functionally invisible.

Wolverine

Gimme a target, 'ro. My claws'll do the rest.

Sage

The Fury will catch you as you land, in a monofilament spider-web. Before you can escape, it will fillet the flesh from your bones… faster and more expertly than an angler guts his fish. You won't die, though I suspect you'll wish you could.
More importantly, you'll be useless to us.

Marvel Girl

You got a better idea, Sage?

Sage

Absolutely.

— Uncanny X-Men #447

Uncanny X-Men

There were those among us who wanted only vengeance. They wanted the scales balanced in fire and blood, life for life! But the X-Men stood for something better. They never lost hope, no matter what. Because of them, Professor Xavier's dream -- of a world where normal and mutant could live in peace and fellowship, where there wouldn't be any distinction between them -- we'd all just be human -- never died. If you turn away from that dream, Kurt, you'll do more damage than you know. We may be doomed -- ours may be a lost cause -- but sometimes the way we live and die are more important than the simple fact of it. Give up now, and all those sacrifices -- in my world as much as yours -- will have been for nothing!

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)^[src]

Death and the X-Men seem to have this... problematic relationship.

--Rachel Summers (Earth-811)^[src]

Korvus

The blade... it's wrong... weakened. You took some.

Rachel

No... it took to me... the Phoenix knows me. Remember? It likes me.

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