“Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
”Don’t torture yourself, Gomez. That’s my job.”
”Pugsley, sit in the chair.”
”Why?”
”So we can play a game.”
”What game?”
”It’s called ‘Is There a God?’”
”Shall I be joyous or shall I be damned?”
”And our credo, ‘Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc’. We gladly feast on those who would subdue us. Not just pretty words.”
”You see, this is our class bulletin board. This month, our theme is our heroes, people we love and admire. You see Susan Ringo has chosen the president. Isn’t that sweet? And Harmony Feld has picked Jane Pauley.”
”Have you spoken to her parents?”
”But Wednesday brought in this picture, Culpurnia Addams.”
”Wednesday’s great-grand aunt Calpurnia. She was burned as a witch in 1706. They say she danced naked in the town square and enslaved a minister.”
”Really?”
”Oh, yes. But don’t worry. We’ve told Wednesday, college first.”
”Just think, someday we’ll be buried here, side by side, six feet under, in matching coffins. Our lifeless bodies rotting together for all eternity.”
xxxHOLiC (2006)
CLAMP
Volume One, Chapter One
“That’s proof that your coming to visit was ‘hitsuzen’.”
”’Hitsuzen’?”
”’Hitsuzen’. A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible. A result which can only be obtained by a single casualty, and other casualties would necessarily create different results.”
”I told you once. ‘Hitsuzen’. There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen.”
The Princess Diaries (2001)
”She’s my sister’s best friend.”
”Yeah, that’s the hardest place to be. Between a friend and, uh, friendlier.”
”Do you wear contact lenses?”
”Well, I have them, but I don’t like to wear them.”
[breaks spectacles] “Now you do.”
”You broke my glasses.”
”You broke my brush.”
”I love your eyebrows. We'll call them Frida and Kahlo. If Brooke Shields married Groucho Marx, their child would have your eyebrows.”
”Uh, well, do you have any change?”
”No. It’s not appropriate for royalty to jingle.”
”So.. Did my father always want to be a prince?”
”Oh yes. Except once about 15 years ago. He seriously considered renouncing his title. Because he met a lovely artist who showed him wonderful things about how life could be, how he could be.”
”But?”
”But he had a decision to make. Nobody could make it for him. Not I, though many people thought I did, or anybody else.”
”Your father realised that the love he could have for one person, or even two, could not make him forget the love he felt for his country and its people. It was the hardest thing he ever had to do.”
”People think princesses are supposed to wear tiaras, marry the prince, always look pretty and live happily ever after. But it’s so much more than that.”
”Amelia, courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on, you’ll be travelling the road between who you think you are and who you think you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make that journey.”