The Best Rachel Dawes Quotes

[Rachel grabs a gun to protect herself and a little boy from escaped asylum inmates]
Little: Batman will save us. He'll come. He'll come.
Rachel: [raises gun and shields the boy's face] Don't peek.
[Batman drops from above, grabs them and lifts them to safety]
Little: I told you he'd come.

Rachel: Wait! You could die. At least tell me your name.
[pause]
Bruce: ...It's not who I am underneath... but what I *do*... that defines me.
Rachel: ...Bruce?
[Batman turns and leaps off the roof]

Bruce: I'm sorry I didn't tell you, Rachel...
Rachel: No. No, Bruce, I'm sorry. The day Chill died I... I said terrible things.
Bruce: But true things. I *was* a coward with a gun. Justice is about more than revenge, so thank you.
Rachel: I never stopped thinking about you. About us. And when I heard you were back, I... I started to hope.
[She kisses Bruce]
Rachel: Then I found out about your mask.
Bruce: Batman's just a symbol, Rachel.
Rachel: [Rachel touches Bruce's face] No, no, *this*... is your mask. Your real face is the one that criminals now fear. The man I loved - the man who vanished - he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.

Rachel: The DA couldn't understand why Judge Faden insisted on making the hearing public. Falcone paid him off to get Chill out in the open.
Bruce: Maybe I should be thanking them.
Rachel: You don't mean that.
Bruce: What if I do Rachel? My parents deserved justice.
Rachel: You're not talking about justice. You're talking about revenge.
Bruce: Sometimes they're the same.
Rachel: No, they're never the same, Bruce. Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better. Which is why we have an impartial system.
Bruce: Your system is broken.
Rachel: [Rachel makes a sharp turn] You care about justice? Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if its history, and it's not. Things are worse than ever down here. Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day. Falcone not have killed your parents Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for.
[She parks in front of a building]
Rachel: You wanna thank him for that, here you go. We all know where to find him, but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him. Good people like your parents who will stand against injustice, they're gone. What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?
Bruce: I'm not one of your good people, Rachel.
Rachel: What do you mean?
Bruce: All these years I wanted to kill him.
[reveals his gun]
Bruce: Now I can't.
Rachel: [Rachel slaps him twice] Your father would be ashamed of you.

Rachel: Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.

Rachel: [looking at the ruins of the burned down Wayne Manor] What will you do?
Bruce: Rebuild it. Just the way it was, brick for brick.
Alfred: *Just* the way it was, sir?
Bruce: Yeah. Why?
Alfred: I thought this might be a good opportunity for improving the foundations.
Bruce: In the south-east corner?
Alfred: Precisely, sir.