M E M O R A B L E Q U O T E S
Rachel Summers: F-Franklin, he...he...oh, Storm, help me! When he died, I felt it, in my mind!
Storm: I know, Rachel. ut you mustn't yield to your pain, your grief. We need you!
Rachel Summers: I won't break, Storm. Those bloody robots killed my man. The least I can do in return is--kill them!!
--Uncanny X-Men 141
Funny. I've experienced death so often in the minds of others, yet I'm terrified of dying myself.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 142
I keep forgetting. That hasn't happened yet. Heck, in reality, neither have I!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 184
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, Uncanny X-Men 184
The more I see of this era, the less my memories mean anything. I hurled myself back in time to save my future Earth from destruction. I never dreamed I'd end up in the wrong past.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 185
You think you got it rough? Gimme a break, you got no idea! Take a look at the world I come from...the future that may yet lie in wait for us all if we don't do anything...while there's still time--and hope!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 188
They used drugs to neutralize my psi-talent. The torture came later, in prison. Eventually, I was sent to the South Bronx Containment Facility--a concentration camp!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 188
Finally, there was just me. I figured, what the heck, nothing to lose--maybe I could timeslip myself back a decade or two, only phsyically instead of psychically, like I did Kate, and try to prevent that future from coming to pass. I got when I wanted to go--but not quite where, 'cause this isn't the past I remember. My Illyana should be a kid, not a teenager. My Storm never cut her hair or lost her powers. My mom...
A lot here is different, but a lot of it is the same. And some...some of it is worse.
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--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.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 188
No! I'll never be a slave--never! Fantasy or not, I don't care--I deny this! I deny you!!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 189
I keep telling myself these are decent, ordinary people--they have nothing against me personally, they don't mean any harm. Except in my future--the America I remember--decent, ordinary people let mutants be herded into concentration camps. Decent, ordinary people slaughtered everyone I ever knew and loved. The X-Men. Mom. Dad.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 192
Now, with the words "Dark Phoenix," I'm suddenly swept away by forces beyond my comprehension--my very being shattered and cast across infinity as I tap into power as primal as creation as so vast it beggars despcription, yet at the same time strangely familiar--to find myself thrown into a world, and into a past, much like my own, but cruelly different. Because it's one where I don't seem to exist.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 192
This entity, Rachel's power is extraordinary--she is akin to a young star that has just begun to glow. Of all the beings I have encountered on this world, she is potentially the most like me. How strange--she seems unaware of how brightly she burns.
--The Beyonder, Uncanny X-Men 196
You puny, pathetic human--to think you could take a telepath by surprise...or that your gun would be any threat to a telekinetic.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 196
You don't understand! When you're a telepath, you see things in people's minds--even those you love--that hurt.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 199
In your eyes, baby...I see a world of infinite possibilities. A second chance. You're all the hope there is, young lady, promise as yet unfulfilled. Be true to my faith, Rachel. Make me proud...
--Jean Grey-Summers, Uncanny X-Men 199
Can you see me, Mommy? What I am...all I've done?! Forgive me--for the lives, the hope I lost, the promise I betrayed.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 199
They call you the Chaos-Bringer. They say Phoenix was evil--that your power was too terrible to be controlled--and your human spirit too weak to withstand it's temptation.
I say that's wrong! I'm your daughter--first-born and only child--and I claim the power and the name of PHOENIX!...that are mine by right!
My people--mutantkind--are threatened by the forces of predjudice and hatred...just as my world is threatened by the Beyonder. I mean to safeguard them both!
Once Professor Xavier is gone, there'll be no one left powerful enough to help new mutants or protect them--but me. This is my chance to balance the scales--to make up for all the bad things I did in the future...and you, Mom, did in the past.
I want everyone to remember the Jean Grey who assumed the mantle of Phoenix to save the man, and friends, she loved more than her life. In my timeline--as well as this one--Mom saved the Universe! Can I...do any...less...?
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 199
You knew my thoughts and fears, the shadows in my soul, the dark side of my nature--you knew that my mom did--and set me up to follow in her footsteps.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 202
Kitty Pryde: What chance have we against a creature like that? we're only human.
Rachel Summers: Wrong. You're human, Kitty. Phoenix isn't.
--Uncanny X-Men 203
The Phoenix rises anew. Perhaps for the final time. As Jean Grey once faced the ultimate trial, so now must her child. And, as before, the fate of the universe
--The Watcher, Uncanny X-Men 203
You stand for death, Beyonder. I--now and forever--for life! As my mom before me. These are my friends--my...family--and this, my world, and around us, my universe. I won't let you harm any of them.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 203
Men! As stubborn sometimes as they are stupid!
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur 3
How dare you toy with me?! How dare you display such contempt for my feelings--for my very life?! I could kill you right here and now!
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur 26
Ah, the smell of testosterone in the air! An entire dimension full of demons, and you two opt to slug it out between yourselves!
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur 38
I'm a quick learner. Eat solar flare, O mighty teacher.
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur 50
The war is over. But the peace still has to be won.
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur 67
I'm perfectly normal. Underneath all this cosmic smoke and flame...beneath my polished veneer as a primal force of the universe, as intergalactic avatar...I'm just a good, old-fashioned, chronologically displaced American woman.
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur 75
Rachel Summers: Kitty, promise me you’ll say 'Hello.'
Kitty Pryde: I--I don’t understand.
Rachel Summers: When I’m born...to Scott and Jean...Promise me you’ll hold me in your arms...keep me safe and warm...and give me a kiss 'Hello.'
--Excalibur 75
I don't know who you are... or how you know who I am...or why you think I can't do what I can do! But I know this! I'm Phoenix--and my power speaks for itself!
--Rachel Summers, X-Factor Annual 5
Rachel Summers: You could hide anything from me.
Franklin Richards: It's trust then, pure and simple. A leap of faith.
Rachel Summers: Yeah, headlong into the abyss. Why should I?
Franklin Richards: Because the Phoenix has no choice but to follow the dictates of her heart.
--X-Men Annual 14
Rachel Summers: All my life, I’ve dreamed of a moment like this. Lazing away a sunny summer afternoon with my sweeties.
Franklin Richards: 'Sweeties?' You mean, I got a rival?
Rachel Summers: Darn straight! I got a baby brother!"--X-Men Annual 14
--X-Men Annual 14
Goodbyes are always tough...especially if you think there's still a lot to be said before parting.
--Rachel Summers, X-Men 30
Dreams are sometimes windows...to other realities. And waking doesn't aways make things better.
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
When the reality no longer exists...exploiters can take the legend...and make it whatever they want, good or bad.
--Rachel Summers, Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
Kitty Pryde: Phoenix--some telepathic 'Friendly Persuasion,' if you please?
Rachel Summers: My pleasure.
Kitty Pryde: Ray--stop! I meant interrogate the creep--not incinerate him!
--Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem
And then, me alone--cast back into the past, into this present where so much seems the same, yet so much is totally different. And maybe I'm supposed to change things and try to stop what's to come only I don't know if I'm actually making things better or worse...and I'm afraid, Kitty, I'm going to have to live through that nightmare all over again! Curse you, Kate Pryde! Couldn't you have left well enough alone--and let me die with you?!
--Rachel Summers, X-Men: True Friends 1
My father always told me not to let my emotions rule my decisions in battle. Too bad I take after my mother.
--Rachel Summers, X-Men: Phoenix 3
Cable: How can we feel such an...intimate...affinity for each other when we're not even really related?
Rachel Summers: But there's something wonderful about it all at the same time, isn't there? We finally get to start asking questions about why we belong with this family of people--instead of why we were always apart.
--Cable 9
Once my mission is over, I'm gone. Besides, I'm too wired to just relax and let the world go to hell.
--Rachel Summers, Cable 94
Rachel Summers: I've been a slave before, Selene. Never again! You and me, sorceress, we're done!
Selene: Impossible!
Rachel Summers: Honey, my very existence defines the term. I break all the rules.
--Uncanny X-Men 454
I'm...myself, Kurt. I'm just not sure what that means anymore...
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 459
Peter, I'm sorry, I'm so happy to see you, but--well, this takes so much getting used to, is all. I mean, Betsy's back, you're back...but what about my mom?!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 460
Seems like, for me to live, my mother--Jean Grey--has to die...and whenever she comes back, I have to go.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 460
I've been to the end of time and back, Betsy. What would you know about forever?
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 460
Rachel Summers: ...If my mom is really dead, as in never coming back...if her spirit really is severed from the Phoenix...where does that leave me?
Psylocke: Alive, for starters.
--Uncanny X-Men 460
I've heard of some cross-time "Rachels" that are the offspring of Scott and Jean...but none of them are me. In my case, what you see here is all there is. Not alternate versions of my present...just aspects of my past. Apparently, I'm unique.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 462
Rachel Summers: I wish you were here.
Kitty Pryde: Me, too.
Rachel Summers: Probably better this way. Besides, the Driveway's already full, Pryde--where you gonna park your sentinel?
--Uncanny X-Men 466
Because my mother was the Phoenix, all of the Grey family were something to be afraid of. Especially me. But 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, Uncanny X-Men 468
Each time you wake, there's this delicious, liminal moment...when you're not quite sure yet what's real and what's still a dream. How do I tell the difference? My dreams have happy endings.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 469
Rachel Summers: What's all that ruckus?
Beast: Now there's a word you don't hear very often.
Rachel Summers: Ruckus. Ruckus. Ruckus.
--Uncanny X-Men 469
Nightcrawler: How is it that a woman whose genome is malleable enough that she transformed herself into an evolved dinosaur...which, you must admit, was strange...can't erase this "deathmark"?
Rachel Summers: I tried, Kurt. I guess sometimes a girl has to learn her limitations the hard way.
--Uncanny X-Men 469
I know I'm part of a team. But I'm a rebel at heart.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 470
You're all ghosts to me, Dr. Lyszinski. Within your lifetime, almost everyone I know, everyone I see around me---dies. I came back to make sure that future never happens. Except that no matter how much we seem to change, history still repeats itself.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 470
Don't you get it, Maureen? I haven't stopped my future from coming true--everything's turning out worse!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 470
I'm so tired, I want to give up. My mom never gave up. I want them to be afraid. I want them dead. I want all Shi'ar to burn!
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 470
Sometimes things can feel so incredibly right you have to do them and at the same time, in retrospect, be monumentally stupid. And then, before you can explain, or try to set things right--you get blindsided by reality.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 471
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, Uncanny X-Men 471
Warpath: Where's Havok?
Rachel Summers: I left him with her. She's freaking and he knows her best.
Warpath: So, our most powerful member is playing doctor? Great.
Rachel Summers: Most powerful? Says who?
--Uncanny X-Men 475
Xavier: Once you absorb the flight training from my memory, you'll be able to teach our whole team while they sleep.
Rachel Summers: So now I'm walking in their dreams? I love how that's okay now that you need me to be your telepathic hands.
--Uncanny X-Men 476
Darwin: ...Why would the Shi'ar, if they are this advanced race, leave all this here for anyone to find?
Rachel Summers: Because they're arrogant.
--Uncanny X-Men 476
You people messed with my head. You don't do that.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 478
So, you're it? They only sent one of you this time? They underestimated me...again.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 479
Korvus: The sword holds but the smallest piece of the Phoenix Force.
Rachel Summers: And you brought it near me? Don't you know what they've done to me because of the Phoenix?
--Uncanny X-Men 479
Korvus: The blade...it's wrong...weakened. You took some.
Rachel Summers: No...It took to me...The Phoenix knows me, remember? It likes me.
--Uncanny X-Men 479
I worry more about Rachel, and the effect he has already had on her. She took some of the Phoenix Force from his sword within herself. Even the smallest spark of the Phoenix in Rachel Grey...This could be a danger to us all...And it could be much worse for Rachel.
--Nightcrawler, Uncanny X-Men 481
Even a shadow of the Phoenix wants to be used.
--Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men 481
