meme: quotes!

[fates_jaye]

We have not done this meme since May 2011, so it's as good a time as any to bring it back out again, right? With all our new snarky characters since then and new books that some of us might have gotten in those 10 months that demand to be quoted...

Am I stealing this bit from weetuskenraider? Idek at this point.
Here's how this works: tag in (under the appropriate journal) with canon quotes from your characters. No (or little) context, just the quotes -- individually if you want, or several in one comment.

People can tag in to those threads and either guess the context/situation, or ask you what it's about, or just comment on the quotes. This way we can all have a little amusement, dork about our canon a little, and maybe get in a little canon pimping on the side.

As always, don't forget to keep checking in and see what new stuff's gone up!

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[fates_jaye]

"You've gotta choose people who aren't much more motivated than you are, but don't surround yourself with total narcissists. Otherwise, things start to be about something other than you."

"The voices, the animals, I was just mad at them. But they aren't demonic. It just feels like that sometimes when they make me help people."

"I'm trying to save him. By avoiding him. So I can be with him. But I can't go near him or I'll destroy him, so if I can just manage to stay away from him maybe we can be together. Please don't repeat that back to me."

Aaron: "If your portly chupacabra doesn’t emerge soon I’ll be forced to go home and work on my dissertation."
Jaye: "I don’t call him that anymore. He might be of Mexican descent and I don’t want to be insensitive."
Aaron: "What do you call him?"
Jaye: "Fat Pat. It was Fatsquatch but..."

[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

"...And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."

[endsthegame]

"For the moment, Styrka, hold your tongue. I know all the arguments of your Calvinism, but even John Calvin would call your doctrine stupid."
"How do you know what Calvin would--"
"Because he's dead, and so I'm entitled to speak for him!"

"I'm a Speaker for the Dead. I tell the truth, when I speak at all, and I don't keep away from other people's secrets."

"I don't have any knack for making people cry, Ela. Telling the truth makes you cry."

"Somehow the cabras are having some kind of genetic exchange, without sex."
"The theological implications alone are astounding."
"Don't make fun."
"Of which? Science or theology?"

[trigons_child]

I have no new canon because DC sucks. Though given the state of the books, she'd probably be a scantily clad sex doll or something, so that's probably a good thing. So old stuffs, including contractions when the writers forget she didn't use them:


"My mind is a battleground, whipped and ripped asunder, torn from the very fabric of reality." (Drama. Queen.)


"Universe after universe has fallen before his might! No one who has opposed him has ever survived! Lay down your weapons! Submit to his will or this pitiable planet will soon be little more than a wasted, lifeless husk. He comes, humans! He comes!" (Because I'm 12.)


"You took me in a moment of weakness, Brother Blood, and twisted my mind so I lost touch with my soul. You gave me power, and with it you made me your slave. You were a fool. I am the daughter of Trigon, darkest of man's nightmare gods, and you have used me. I am the daughter of Arella, who protected mankind from him, and you have tried to slay her. I am Raven, and I am myself once more. Feel my anger." (And he did.)


"Now I know how the wicked queen in Sleeping Beauty felt. To think you gave a wedding and neglected to invite me, one of your oldest and dearest friends. Or perhaps you've already forgotten sweet, innocent, shy Raven! Well, spinning wheels are far and few in this part of Jersey, so I'll have to come up with something more inventive than the old prick-your-finger-and-sleep-till-doomsday routine. Deathwing, teach our friends here a lesson in what happens to those who are rude." (There's a reason I skipped this part of canon.)


"I watch Gossip Girl...religiously." (Her more secret of secrets.)


I'm good... although I would like Roy to explain why he threw an atomic bomb at me...."


"I am your sister. I am a sin. The sin of Pride. The original sin. The sin from which the rest of you spring. It sort of makes me your big sister. And big sisters call the shots." (And then she kicked their asses. \o/)


"I'm not saying this to be maudlin or acting like a martyr. I'm stating a fact. There's evil that runs through me, and when the wrong set of demonic ducks line up, I have a tendency to go all dark diva in thigh highs." (At least she developed a sense of humor about it?)

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

"I am not dying for 6 college credits!"

"I just downloaded, like, 30 songs onto there. "

"Whoa, does he need CPR? 'Cause I totally know CPR!"

"Yeah, we can tell you're hammered! That's pretty obvious."

"You know, for a crazy, homeless person, he's pretty cut."

"Oh, my God! This is goin' on Facebook."

[solo_sword]

Jaina: "I'm going to leave a message for Uncle Luke, and then I'm off to see my fiance."
Ben: "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Jaina: "Hey- I certainly hope I do, and you'd better not."

[lockestheway]

"I hope you aren't insane enough to be coming along on this mission."
"What a cheery greeting. That is a gun in your pocket, so I guess you aren't happy to see me."

"Involuntary high officer force reduction."

“Our authority lies very lightly on the reins of world government.”
“The horses seem so comfortable it’s almost as though they were not being guided at all."
“We govern so skillfully that we never need to use spurs.”
“Which is a good thing. Spurs being in short supply around here these days.”

“Sit down, Dad, for heaven’s sake, you’re standing there like a junior employee expecting to be sacked.”
“Laid off, anyway. Your budget shrinks month by month.”
“I thought we’d solve that by printing our own money."
“Good idea. A sort of international money that could be equally worthless in every country, so that it becomes the benchmark against which all other currencies are weighed. The dollar is worth a hundred billion ‘hedges’-that’s a good name for it, don’t you think? The ‘hedge’?-and the yen is worth twenty trillion, and so on.”
“That’s assuming that we could keep the value just above zero. The computers would all crash if it ever became truly worthless.”
“But here’s the danger. What if it accidentally became worth something? It might cause a depression as other currencies actually fell against the hedge.”

[lockestheway]

“Thanks, Father. You’ve been very helpful. Now I know that I was raised by an insane woman and I never knew it.”

“Yes, he’s a charmer, all right.”
“Peter-”
“It’s not a popularity contest, Father.”
“No, it’s a loyalty contest. You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you’ll accomplish, and nothing more. They are your power, these public servants you employ, and he’s winning their loyalty away from you.
“Superficially, perhaps."
“For most people, the superficial is all there is. They act on the feelings of the moment. They like him better than you.”
“There’s always somebody that people like better.”

“Besides, saving you means saving the world.”
“Right."
“You’re the only hope."
“Then good luck, world.”
“I do believe that that was almost a prayer. Don’t you think so, Theresa? I think Peter said a prayer.”
“Yeah, why not. Good luck, world. Amen.”

[furnaceface]

Because I'm at work and Flash keeps crashing, this one seems apropos. I might dig up more if I have use of both hands by the time I get home tonight, but for now?

"Oi. Mate. Gaze into the face of "$%&# you.""

[solo_sword]

Jaina: "And whatever I might do, it would be smart. So I wouldn't charge in without a plan, and I wouldn't get someone else killed with me."
Ben: "I'm not asking you to come."
Jaina: "Right. And you expect that to square me with your father? That you didn't invite me to walk into an obvious trap right along with you?"

[inaskinnyway.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean."

Susan: "What precisely was it that you wanted, madam? It's only that I've left the class doing algebra, and they get restless when they've finished."
Madam Frout: "Algebra? But that's far too difficult for seven-year-olds!"
Susan: "Yes, but I didn't tell them that and so far they haven't found out."

[vanillajello]

Susan is so my idol when it comes to teaching, I can't even.

[bitten_notshy]

Just one right now because it is their first kiss, chronologically speaking, and it makes my goddamn toes curl and I forget how creepy the ship is:

Jack: "Come to bed, Sebastien.
Sebastien: You will only leave me.
Jack: Probably, unless you leave me first. But despite all that, sweetheart. I love you.
He kissed the wampyr, and the wampyr did not push him away.

[lockestheway]

"My information suggests that the many loyal employees of the Office of Hegemon are in no danger whatsoever, and when a new permanent headquarters is established, I invite all those who want to, to resume their jobs. The disloyal employees, of course, already have other employment."

“How many times are you two going to have to save me from myself before this whole drama runs its course?”
“I think… six times."
"No, eight."
"You two think you’re so cute."

"I wish there were something to look at besides the stupid vids. Or Dad snoring. Or Mother looking at me now and then, sizing me up, and then winking. Does she have any idea how awful that is? How demeaning? To wink at me! What about smiling?"

“Come on, Mother, you know that if I were on fire, nobody would so much as pee on me to put it out.”
“There are hundreds of thousands of people back on Earth who have only to be asked. And some dozens who would do it without waiting for an invitation, if they saw an opportunity.”
“There are some good points about fame. And those with empty bladders would probably chip in with a little spit.”

[dollpocalypse]

I feel weird for having a document of all Topher's canon dialogue EVER saved on my computer for just this purpose.

Adelle: Is it as you imagined, Mr. Brink?
Topher: It's actually weirder. Huh. Which may be the first.
Adelle: This obviously is the programming center.
Topher: It's great. I love what you haven't done with the place. I get up in this and I'm gonna need a couple throw pillows, maybe a fridge...
Dominic: Should we order you a poster of a cat maybe hanging off a tree?
Topher: Ahaha. I like this guy already!
Dominic: It's not a dorm room.
Adelle: Mr. Dominic is our head of security.
Dominic: I'm here to make sure the house runs smoothly. No unstable elements.
Topher: So... do you get me the fridge, or do I talk to someone higher-up?

Topher: Well, arguably, one could program the brain to... fight cancer! Or be telekinetic! Or, or, or not to have that gag reflex when you eat sea urchin, or... whatever! The possibilities are pretty much endless, is what I'm saying. I don't want to use the word "genius," but I'd be okay if you wanted to.

Topher: The human mind is like Van Halen; if you pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.
Paul: Yeah, I don't understand.
Topher: But it's so cute that you're trying!

Topher: Perhaps triggering lactation was a bridge too far. Live and learn.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher: It'll take me a second to put this together.
Boyd: You have to put it together?
Topher: It's the manufacturing room, not the "it's finished" room!

Topher: It's like his brain's a football team, and I've got this whole new set of brilliant plays, but it doesn't matter because the quarterback's in jail for dogfighting.
Ivy: Yeah, and it's not like his brain can run the wildcat formation.
Topher: ...that joke went under my head.

Topher: Adelle wants to see you.
Ivy: Oh. Did she say why?
Topher: Does she ever? Hey. Darth Vader kills lieutenants. Not Stormtroopers.

Topher: Wow. Wow, Boyd. You're right. I'm the tin man, she's the lion, and you're the head of the Lollipop Guild who's a traitor!

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

Drogo: Vezh fin saja rhaesheseres vo zigereo adoroon shiqethi. (The stallion that mounts the world has no need for iron chairs.)

Dany: K'asi assikhqoyisiri vezh adothrae nakhaan rhaesheseri. (According to the prophecy the stallion will ride to the ends of the world.)

Drogo: Sorfosor nakha she Havazzhifi Kazga. Vo hrazef laz yoma evethiz. (The earth ends at The Black Salt Sea. No horse can cross the poison water.)

Dany: Sorfosor nakho vosecchi she havazh. Sani sorfi vekha yomme havash. Sorfo athyolari anni. (The Earth never ends at the sea. There are many dirts across the sea. The dirts of my birth.)

Drogo: Vo sorfo. Rhaeshi. (Not dirt. Lands)

Dany: Rhaeshi, sek. (Lands, yes.) Dalen rhaggat eveth ma ale vekhi she Vaes Seris. Hrazef ido fini ovethi yomme havazh. (There are thousands of ships in the Free Cities. Wooden horses that fly across the sea.)

Drogo: Kisha vastoki vos alikh hrazefi ido m'adori shiqethi. (Let's speak no more about wooden horses or iron chairs.

Dany: Me vos ador. Me...me...throne. (It's not a chair. It's...it's...throne.)

Drogo: Throne?

Dany: Ador finaan khal nevasoe...che khaleesi. (A chair for a king to sit upon...or a queen.)

Drogo: Khal vos zigereo adoroon anevasoe maan. Me zigeree sojasoon disse. (A khal doesn't need a chair to sit on. He only needs a steed.)

[dollpocalypse]

Ivy: Topher, what happened in DC?
Topher: It's confidential.
Ivy: You know, if you want me to learn, at some point you're going to have to trust me with important information.
Topher: I will never trust another woman as long as I live. She totally went all Cylon on me and sent a sleeperized assassin after Echo right behind my back, disarmed me with her arm and glasses and face, mostly. But underneath it all, she is ice cold. No! – Truly wicked, with a shriveled-up raisin of a heart. I wonder what she's doing right now.

Bennett: This man assaulted me. Struck me in my own lab. I'd like to file a formal complaint.
Adelle: Miss Halverson, as you correctly noted, you have been abducted. Now, you can be treated as a prisoner or a guest, it's entirely – [she notes Topher flailing in the background and grits her teeth] – can I get you anything?
Bennett: A diet soda.
Topher: I have some! ...in my fridge. C'mon. Well. Lab's in here. You showed me yours, lemme... show you mine.

Topher: Her left arm may be dead, but she's got a terrific right cross. If anyone asks. ...actually, if anyone asks, don't say I got beat up by a one-armed girl.

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"Keep walking. If I look back, I am lost."

[endsthegame]

"I think I'm rich."
"I have no idea whether I'm rich or not. I can't get the computer to stop listing my holdings."

"I can't be the only person who ever landed and discovered that it would take him a week to find out what his financial situation was. I'm going to find somebody."
"I'll be here, paying my taxes like a grown-up. Like an honest woman."
"You make me ashamed of myself."


"If I were using false identification, would it be smart or stupid to use a name like Andrew Wiggin?"
"Stupid."
"So let's start from the assumption that I'm smart, but also tormented by having grown up with the name of Ender the Xenocide. Are you going to find me psychologically unfit because of the imbalance these traumas caused me?"
"I'm not customs. I'm taxes."
"I know. But you seemed preternaturally absorbed with the question of identity, so I thought you were either a spy from customs or a philosopher, and who am I to deny the curiosity of either?"

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

"Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros."

[dollpocalypse]

Adelle: Topher. That troublesome one-armed creature, where is she?
Topher: I had to lock her up. Couldn't leave her in the lab unattended.
Adelle: And your charm offensive?
Topher: Mostly just offensive.

Topher: [after kissing Bennett like 9 times]: More of that if we prevent the end of the world?
Bennett: Yes.
Topher: You know, I always had a crush on you. Even when I thought you were a dude.

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

(Flashback)
Guy: Le stylo!
Karen: Mon livre!
Maurice: Regarde!
(End Flashback)
Leslie: Just... wait a second. Why are they talkin' about books and pens?
Jake: Well. They're not, it's just- my French isn't very good. I had to stop at grade nine. But I had a really hot French teacher.

Leslie: C'est toi mon homme. (You're my man.)
Jake: Come on, you know I don't speak French, what does that mean?
Leslie: *smiles, leaves*
Jake: Et toi t'es faite pour moi. (And you're the one for me.)

Tarrant: In six months you've managed to disobey every order I've given you.
Jake: That's not true exactly, I mean some of them I just ignored.
Tarrant: You ignore all protocol, you got the RNC in the newspaper thirty-seven times.
Jake: Any press is like, good press, so-
Tarrant: You drove a SWAT van into the harbour, you wracked up over 200 hours of overtime, you scared a police dog into retirement...
Jake: That dog was just not cut out for the force.

"There was a woman, she had a gun and she made me undress."

"Oh yes b'y. How are we gonna explain to the cops that we've got a dead body in there that's covered in friggin' white flour?"

"Why would someone as hot as her go around cutting off corpses' limbs?"

"Three grams of hash oil. Can you still get hash oil?"

"I think you have real feelings for me. So we should talk about these feelings tonight over drinks. In bed. With no pants on."

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"What's with the beard and the horse mane? You look like Rent-a-Villain."

The volhv's eyes widened. He raised his hand at me. "Well you don't look... female... in your pants."

[unlimitedgoals.livejournal.com]

"But that’s life. One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute some secretary’s running you over with a lawnmower."

"I can't wait until next year when all of you are in Vietnam. You will be pining for the day when someone was trying to make your life easier. When you're over there, and you're in the jungle and they're shooting at you, remember you're not dying for me because I never liked you."

"It's a very brave person that does something anonymously."

Greg: Joanie, I don't want to have a fight right now.
Joan: Then stop talking.
Greg: *silence*

Joan: Sandra, everyone makes mistakes, but the fact that you're the kind of person who cannot accept blame is egregious.
Sandy: I don't know what that means.
Joan: It means I can't believe I hired you.

Hachi Saito: [in Japanese] How does she not fall over?
Joan: Not very subtle, are they?
Akira Takahashi: No, they are not.

[withasword.livejournal.com]

I have had new canon since the last time we did this. FEAR.

“They really kicked me out?"
"Refunded the tuition and everything."
Julie blinked a couple of times coming to grips with this tidbit. "So what happens now?"
"I expect you'll be a bum. Homeless and jobless begging on the street for a crust of bread..."
"Kate."
"Oh, alright, I suppose if you come by the office once in a while I'll give you a sandwich. You can squat in the office on the floor when it gets too cold outside. We can even get you a little blanket to lie on...”