an assortment of favorite selina kyle quotes:
“It’s the story of my life. It’s never about who wins. It’s about who loses the least.”
“I try so many things. I'm always changing. What’s left of me without anyone watching? At the end, when I meet my maker, what do I say?”
"I’m not blind to how the world sees me, and never felt the need to explain myself to anyone. I’ve been damsel, hero, and villain. Depending on whose story you choose to believe."
“There are things I know. Really know. I can tell you exactly how long it will take to crack a lock just by looking at it. I can tell you the best high heeled shoes to run in. And I know when I’m facing someone who’s been damaged by those who raised him. Mirrors come in all sizes.”
"I know who I am. You've seen what I'm capable of. And I'm going to be the end of you."
“For a long time all I could think about was pain. My own and my family’s, and that pain defined who I was, and ultimately just caused more…until there was nothing left for me beyond that.”
"That’s a little inconsistent, you say, with my image as a bad girl. The kindness doesn’t mesh with the cruelty. How can I be nasty and nice? You just can’t figure me out? What can I say? I'm a cat."
"It was my reflection in the jewelry box. My face looking back at me. My entire story was written there. I saw my mother...my father...my entire young life. I knew right then that I could never run from it. But...I could change it. The mask let me be the woman I wanted to become — and I found a way to live with both faces."
“Am I screaming? Should I be? No. Don’t scream. Survive.”
“I've become vulnerable in ways that allowed someone to hurt me in ways I didn’t understand. I won’t let that happen again. When I walk away from this life, it will be on my terms."
“But I’ve felt the fear they feel, and the pain. The pain of that lost innocence. And once you’ve lost that, it’s so much easier for them to just take everything else, too.”
“I wear a mask to give myself an edge, not to obliterate my own pain or identity. I love being Catwoman, but that in and of itself means that Catwoman isn’t all that I am. I steal compulsively, but somehow the stealing saves me. As hard and nasty and jagged as my life has been, instinctively I always want more. Instinctively, I always take more. And I live in Gotham because the city mirrors the landscape of my soul. She’s beaten and bruised, just like me. A beauty. A badass.”
