When asked why he refuses to let himself fall in love and be happy…

Bruce: Love means never having to say you’re sorry.


This quote reminded me of Bruce because the possibility of anybody he cares about getting hurt on account of the way he lives his life tears him apart. And much as he tries to protect whoever’s left of his vigilante family at any given time, all of them are already in too deep, too.

Brooding into a Gotham City night atop a gargoyle be like…

Batman: My name is Bruce Wayne, leader of the Justice League of America, mentor to a family of vigilantes, and loyal servant to the true commissioner, James Gordon. 

Batman: Father to two murdered sons, son to murdered parents. 

Batman: And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.