History Quotes / MassEffect2

-->'''Liara:''' She's got reinforcements!
-->'''Shepard:''' What kind of guns does this thing have?
-->'''Liara:''' It's a taxi! It has a fare meter!
-->'''Shepard:''' [[SarcasmMode Wonderful.]]

--> "I am the genetic destiny of the asari. But they are not ready to reveal this, so I must die." (before Shepard chooses the victor between her and Samara)

--> (After you meet Wrex[[hottip:*: if he survived Virmire back in ''Mass Effect 1'']] on Tuchanka)

--> "I'm all for second chances. Little iffy on the third ones." (Grunt recruitment mission, on letting Rana Thanoptis escape again[[hottip:*:if she survived Virmire back in ''Mass Effect 1'']])

--> "Worried about my qualifications? I can crush a mech with my biotics or shoot its head off at a hundred yards. Take your pick." (Minuteman Station[[hottip:*:setting of Shepard's first conversation with the Illusive Man]] conversation)

'''Squadmate:''' In theory?[[hottip:*: this line is not specific to any one squadmate]]\\

--> "Flammable! ...or '''in'''flammable. Forget which. [[KillItWithFire Doesn't matter!]][[hottip:*:It really doesn't matter; both words mean the same thing.]]" (battle quote, when using Incinerate)

* "Rally the Crowd" option of concluding Tali's trial[[hottip:*:available only if both Veetor and Kal'Reegar are alive]]

'''Donovan Hock'''[[hottip:*:Kasumi's nemesis on her loyalty mission]]

'''Warlord Okeer'''[[hottip:*:Grunt's creator]]

'''Gianna Parasini'''[[hottip:*:if you help her again in this game after helping her before in ''Mass Effect 1'']]

'''Shiala'''[[hottip:*:if you spared her life on Feros in ''Mass Effect 1'']]

'''Officer Dara'''[[hottip:*:the NPC who leads you to Samara's recruitment mission]]

'''Niftu Cal'''[[hottip:*:the drugged volus on Samara's recruitment mission]]

'''Shepard:''' Get ready. I wouldn't be surprised if this button summoned a Reaper.

'''Grunt:''' Nothing in my imprints told me that humans could be so forceful. You command as though you've earned it.\\

--> "Human, you've changed ''nothing''. Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you call 'Reapers' are your salvation through destruction. (''to the Collector General'') You have failed. We will find another way. Releasing control."

'''Kal'Reegar:''' Damn straight! Tali'Zorah's done more for this Fleet than you assholes ever will! You're pissing on everything I fought for! Everything Tali fought for! So, if you decide to exile her... you may as well do the same to me.\\

'''Shepard:''' Wasea will tear you apart! Take a nap -- you'll feel better.\\

---> (''Shepard shoves Niftu Cal from behind, making him fall on his stomach'')

--> "Damn straight! Tali's done more for this Fleet than you assholes ever will!" (Tali's loyalty mission, if the "Rally the Crowd" option is chosen)

--> "Human, you've changed nothing. Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you call 'Reapers' are your salvation through destruction. (''to the Collector General'') You have failed. We will find another way. Releasing control."

!!Shepard's Quotes

'''Shepard:''' Hey! Everyone! This store discriminates against the poor!\\

!!Joker's Quotes About Squadmates:

!!Joker's Quotes In General

--> (After you meet Wrex[[hottip:*: if he survived Virmire back in ''Mass Effect 1'']] on Tuchanka)
-->"I'm not real broken up about Wrex not coming with us. I'm good with our current level of headbutting. I think we're at headbutting capacity."

-->"Right now, I'm thinking about taking up bullfighting. What do you think?"

-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "Hah!

--> "I had reach, but she had flexibility." (Normandy conversation; can be a springboard for a female Shepard romance)

--> "King-of-the-hill with Collectors. Great." (Horizon, on protecting the defense towers)

--> "We oppose the heretics. We oppose the Old Machines. Shepard-Commander opposes the Old Machines. Shepard-Comannder opposes the heretics. Cooperation furthers mutual goals." (first conversation)

--> "We are Legion, a terminal of the geth. We will integrate into Normandy. We anticipate the exchange of data." (accepting its name)

--> (loyalty mission conversation, on encountering a dead human genophage test subject)\\

--> '''Shepard:''' What kind of club is this exactly?\\
'''Liara:''' This is Azure. It is named after a part of the asari body.\\
'''Shepard:''' Where is it located?\\
'''Liara:''' On the lower reaches, near the bottom.\\
'''Shepard:''' I meant where on the asari body.\\

--> '''Mordin:''' Never used humans myself. Disgusting, unethical, sloppy. Used only by brute-force researchers, not thinkers. No place in proper science.

--> (Archangel recruitment mission)[[hottip:*:exclusive Female Shepard scene]]\\

* Shepard's various heroic monologues at the end of ''Arrival.''

* On recruitment:

* On recruitment

!!Kelly Chambers's comments on recruited squadmates

'''Garrus:''' Ah! Don't make me laugh. My face is barely holding together as it is.

--> "You know me. Always like to savor that last shot before popping the heat sink... *beat* Wait, that metaphor just went somewhere horrible." (romance conversation)

--> "I didn't think people lived like this. Drinks! Fights! Noise! These people think they're krogan." (inside Afterlife, on Omega)

--> "I can taste hate in the air, but there's no fighting. It's like... like they don't want to. Is that
right? Because it seems stupid. Rules and words to hide how they hide. Fighting is simple. Kill the guy aiming at you. Here, there's no way to tell. Stupid." (on Illium)

'''Legion:''' Yes.\\

'''Legion:''' How could we have become so different? Why can we no longer understand each other? What did we do wrong?\\

--> "Executing sudo command." (loyalty mission, hacking defense turrets)

'''Legion:''' You were the most successful. You killed their god. You succeeded where others did not. Your code is superior.

'''Mordin:''' Never used humans myself. Disgusting, unethical, sloppy. Used only by brute-force researchers, not thinkers. No place in proper science.

--> (loyalty mission conversation)\\
'''Mordin:''' Dead krogan. Female. Tumors indicate experimentation. No restraint marks. Volunteer. Sterile Weyrloc female willing to risk procedures. Hoped for cure. Pointless. Pointless waste of life.\\

'''Mordin:''' What? Why? Because of genophage work? Irrelevant. No, ''causative.'' Never experimented on live krogan. Never killed with medicine. Her death not my work, only reaction to it. Goal was to stabilize population. Never wanted this. Can see it logically... but still unnecessary. Foolish waste of life. Hate to see it.\\

'''Mordin:''' Modified genophage project great in scope. Scientifically brilliant. But ethically difficult. Krogan reaction visceral, tragic. Not guilty, but responsible. Trained as doctor. Genophage affects fertility. Doesn't kill. Still... (''hesitates'') ...caused this. Hard to see big picture behind pile of corpses.\\

--> "I love any game where your opponent can believe he is about to win... just before you kill him." (Samara's loyalty mission)

--> "I was into dueling for a while. I love the moment you see it in your opponent's eyes: he knows you're better and he's going to die." (Samara's loyalty mission)

--> "Jacob is an earnest young man. Events will either forge him into a great man or utterly destroy him. Miranda is undoubtedly a hard woman. I respect her strength and determination. She carries many burdens and doesn't share them with others - as it should be." (Normandy conversation)

--> "The measure of an individual can be difficult to discern by actions alone." (recruitment phase conversation)

--> (Loyalty mission dialogue)\\

--> "Kolyat, I've taken many bad things out of the world. You're the only good thing I ever added to it." (loyalty mission)

--> "Yeah, yeah. Krogan are strong. We get it." (Grunt recruitment mission)

--> "Jack. Subject Zero. Whatever you call her. Hell of a girl. Could have used a destructive little bitch like that ten years ago when we dropped blind into the Krogan DMZ. Took out a lot of krogan that day, but we lost way too many men."

--> "So you knew Archangel from before. Interesting. Knew a lot of men taking jobs to kill the son of a bitch. I never saw the point. He and I wanted the same thing: a whole lot of mercs dead. Hell of a sniper, though. And he kept himself alive with all the mercs on Omega after him. That ain't easy."

--> "You smoke, Shepard? Don't. That stuff'll kill you. Knew a kid once. Weapons dealer. Probably half your age. Bastard smoked too close to a cache of explosives. Tossed a butt, blew himself sky-high." (Normandy conversation)

'''Fortack:''' Why not? It's not like they can make us any more sterile. (''{{beat}}'') Wait, forget I said anything.

'''Niftu Cal'''

'''Niftu Cal:''' Are you mad? I'm unstoppable! Feasting on her biotic-rich blood will be the last step of my ascension into godhood!
---> (''Shepard shoves Niftu Cal, making him fall on his stomach'')
--> '''Niftu Cal:''' But... great wind! Biotic god! I'm... I... what was I saying? I'm... tired. You... may be right. I'll nap. Destroy the universe later...

--> (encountering Legion)\\

--> (discussing the truth behind Tali's trial)\\

'''EDI:''' What Jeff and I are exhibiting is more a platonic symbiosis than hormonally-induced courtship
behavior.\\

'''EDI:''' Calculating an optimum course of action is simple. If two AI weapons are pitted against each
other, the one with superior hardware will always win. Human misjudgments defy predictive models.\\

-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "Aye, but in the right hands, it can taste like mighty fine ass.

-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "We're off to kick the Collectors right in their [[UnusualEuphemism daddy-bags]].

--> (Loyalty mission)\\

--> "I can taste hate in the air, but there's no fighting. It's like... like they don't want to. Is that

--> "My job is to hurt things. Direction, control -- that's your job, battlemaster. You're why I'm a
soldier, not dead or crazed like an animal. Thank you, Shepard. You gave me purpose. Now let's
find something big to kill." (after loyalty mission)

(''if any squadmate other than Grunt is present'')
'''Jack:''' The less they have, the more they want to protect it.

--> "You let someone get that close, it just means they need a shorter knife. Lonely and alive works
just fine, thanks." (Normandy conversation)

'''Legion:''' This heretic weapon introduces a subtle operating error in our most basic runtimes. The
equivalent of your nervous system. An equation with a result of 1.33382 returns as 1.33381. This
changes the results of all higher processes. We will reach different conclusions.\\

'''Legion:''' It is difficult to express. Your brain exists as chemistry, electricity. Like AIs, you are shaped by both hardware and software. Geth are purely software. Mathematics. The heretics' conclusion is
valid for them. Our conclusion is valid for us. Neither result is an error. An analogy. Heretics say one is less than two. Geth say two is less than three.

--> "Every sapient has the right to make their own decisions. The heretics chose a path that prohibits
coexistence." (loyalty mission)

--> "Corporate security. What a life. Regular breaks, regular paycheck. Still not worth it. Killing on
salary's too easy. I have to work for every job I get. Makes me really look at the job. Makes me care who I'm hunting. Otherwise, it's just another name on a piece of paper." (on Illium)

'''Xen:''' A ship travels faster than I can. With the right programming, it can choose locations, even defend itself when attacked. But it is just a machine. It was built for the sole purpose of
serving its master. And it can be dismantled whenever its master desires.

'''Shepard:''' You want people to sympathize with them! Han'Gerrel wants to go to war! None of you care about Tali! She knows more about the geth than any other quarian alive. You should be listening to her,
not putting her on trial. Tali'Zorah saved the Citadel! She saved the Alarei! She showed the galaxy the value of the quarian people. I can't think of stronger evidence than that.

'''Grunt:''' That's what we do: stay alive no matter what. No matter who.\\
'''Jacob:''' Wish I had that kind of stamina. Glad I don't need it.

--> (Normandy conversation\\

--> "Where did we go wrong? How have we become so different?" (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "Trade of organics is proscribed on places you call 'civilized'. Yet you do not question the restrictions placed on EDI aboard the ''Normandy''." (on Illium)

--> (On Tuchanka)
--> "To pit living beings against each other for entertainment...unforgivable. If I survive your mission, I may return here and instruct the krogan on compassion. I'll need many bullets."

--> "I' never stab you in the back, Shepard. Warriors like you and me -- straight to the face. (''{{beat}}'') Kidding, kidding! (Normandy conversation)

'''Jack/Subject Zero'''

'''Miranda'''

--> (First conversation with her and Jacob, after she kills Wilson)\\
'''Miranda:''' (''to Shepard'') I've spent too much time and effort on this to let you get killed now.\\
'''Jacob:''' You really think Wilson's capable of that?\\
'''Miranda:''' (''looks down on Wilson's corpse'') Not anymore.

--> "Worried about my qualifications? I can crush a mech with my biotics or shoot its head off at a hundred yards. Take your pick." (Minuteman Station[[hottip:*:setting of Shepard's first conversation with the Illusive Man]] conversation)

--> (On Freedom's Progress)\\
'''Tali:''' Veetor reprogrammed a heavy mech. It's tearing Prazza's squad apart!\\
'''Miranda:''' They did want to get to Veetor first.

--> "We're all hoping you can do the impossible, Shepard. No pressure." (Normandy conversation)

--> "I'm an excellent judge of character. I think you'll find my assessments to be right on the money." (Normandy conversation)

'''Shepard:''' Sounds like you were designed to be perfect.\\
'''Miranda:''' Maybe, but I'm not. I'm still human. I do make mistakes. And when I do, the consequences are severe.

'''Legion'''

--> "Shepard-Commander." (first line)

--> (First conversation with it after activation)\\
'''Legion:''' You are Shepard. Commander. Alliance. Human. Fought heretics. Killed by Collectors. Rediscovered on the Old Machine.\\
'''Shepard:''' You seem to know an awful lot about me.\\
'''Legion:''' Extranet data sources. Insecure broadcasts. All organic data sent is received. We watch you.\\
'''Shepard:''' You watch me, or you watch organics?\\
'''Legion:''' Yes.\\
'''Shepard:''' Which?\\
'''Legion:''' Both.

--> "We oppose the heretics. We oppose the Old Machines. Shepard-Commander opposes the Old Machines. Shepard-Comannder opposes the heretics. Cooperation furthers mutual goals." (first conversation)

--> "We are Legion, a terminal of the geth. We will integrate into Normandy. We anticipate the exchange of data." (accepting its name)

--> "The geth believe all intelligent life must self-determinate." (Normandy conversation)

--> (Normandy conversation)\\
'''Shepard:''' Some of the geth followed Sovereign. The "heretics."\\
'''Legion:''' The heretics accepted their technology. The Old Machines offered to give us our future. The geth will achieve our own future.\\
'''Shepard:''' What difference does it make how you acquire a certain technology?\\
'''Legion:''' Technology is not a straight line. There are many paths to the same end. Accepting another's path blinds you to alternatives. Nazara -- Sovereign -- said this itself. "Your civilization is based upon the technology of the mass relays. Our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire."

--> (Normandy conversation)\\
'''Shepard:''' Sovereign was one ship. You're saying there were multiple programs inside it?\\
'''Legion:''' One ship. One will. Many minds. Like the geth. We study your records. Sovereign told you this on Ilos. "We are each a nation, independent, free of all weakness." A state compelling to the geth. We are a nation, but interdependent. Separation is our weakness.

--> (Normandy conversation)\\
'''Shepard:''' Do geth have a government?\\
'''Legion:''' Not as you understand it. We are all geth. We build consensus.\\
'''Shepard:''' Most governments do.\\
'''Legion:''' Organic governments impose consensus. From a single point of view in autocracies. By codifying the most broadly acceptable average of views in democracies.\\
'''Shepard:''' So what makes the geth different?\\
'''Legion:''' Data is shared between geth. All viewpoints are considered. Consensus is achieved as data is disseminated.\\
'''Shepard:''' That must take a long time.\\
'''Legion:''' It would for organics. We communicate at the speed of light.

--> "Organics fear us. We wish to understand, not incite." (Normandy conversation)

--> "Geth do not ''intentionally'' infiltrate." (Citadel conversation with C-Sec customs officer)

--> *Alarmed* "This platform is not available for experimentation." (Tali's loyalty mission)

--> (Tali's loyalty mission)\\
'''Shepard:''' Do you think the geth would be willing to accept a truce with the quarians, Legion?\\
'''Legion:''' We did not seek hostilities with creators. We fought for continued existence.\\
'''Shepard:''' So your people would be open to peace?\\
'''Legion:''' Not without additional data that suggests coexistence is possible or desirable for creators. When the creators have believed victory is possible, they have attacked us 100 percent of the time.\\
'''Admiral Zaal'Koris:''' I understand. It would be difficult to argue for peace when faced with odds like those. That does not mean the argument should not be made.

--> "Windows are a structural weakness. Geth do not use them." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "No two species are alike. All must be judged based on their own merits. To compare another species to one's own is racist. Even benign anthropomorphism." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "Where did we go wrong? How have we become so different?" (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "We do not comprehend the organic fascination of self-poisoning, auditory damage and sexually transmitted disease." (inside Afterlife on Omega)

--> "Trade of organics is proscribed on places you call 'civilized'. Yet you do not question the restrictions placed on EDI aboard the ''Normandy''." (on Illium)

--> "Executing sudo command." (loyalty mission, hacking defense turrets)

--> (Normandy conversation)\\
'''Shepard:''' That doesn't explain why you used my armor to fix yourself.\\
'''Legion:''' (''after a long pause'') There was a hole.\\
'''Shepard:''' But why didn't you fix it sooner? Or with something else?\\
'''Legion:''' (''longer pause than before'') No data available.

--> "After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will
return to where I began." (loyalty mission)

--> "It's fun watching you shout." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "I've already got better, Shepard. I've got you." (loyalty mission conversation)

'''Samara'''

--> "Truly, the life of a justicar can get lonely. I admit, I am looking forward to serving in the company of honorable heroes." (recruitment phase conversation)

--> "By the code I will serve you, Shepard. Your choices are my choices. Your morals are my morals. Your wishes are my code." (recruitment phase conversation)

--> "Jacob is an earnest young man. Events will either forge him into a great man or utterly destroy him. Miranda is undoubtedly a hard woman. I respect her strength and determination. She carries many burdens and doesn't share them with others - as it should be." (Normandy conversation)

--> "When you live by a code that compels you to harsh action, you learn the dangers of curiosity. If I must kill a man because he has done wrong, do I really wish to know that he is a devoted father?" (Normandy conversation)

--> "You are more individualistic than any other species I have encountered. If three humans are in a room, there will be six opinions. I like your species. I am curious to see what you will do." (Normandy conversation)

--> "Shepard. What can I say? What do you want me to say? I just killed the smartest and bravest of my daughters. There are no words. I will try another time. For now, show mercy on a broken old warrior and let us leave." (after her loyalty mission)

--> "Morinth haunted my dreams and waking hours equally. For the first time in four hundred years, I am free. I am a ruined vessel of sorrow and regret, but I am free. It is not a feeling I can describe." (post-loyalty mission)

--> (Post-loyalty mission dialogue)\\
'''Shepard:''' You said that Morinth was a monster, but she was still your daughter.\\
'''Samara:''' She was the smartest and strongest. She would not accept the injustice thrust upon her. She fought to the end. I am so proud of her, Shepard.\\
'''Shepard:''' You killed her for being who she was.\\
'''Samara:''' And I would again. But I also know what it is to leave everything behind and fight.

--> "I will fight and struggle all my life. That is my fate. When I die, it will not be in bed. I am at peace with that." (Normandy conversation)

--> (On Tuchanka)
--> "To pit living beings against each other for entertainment...unforgivable. If I survive your mission, I may return here and instruct the krogan on compassion. I'll need many bullets."

--> "Your life is mine!"[=/=]"Embrace eternity!" (using Reave)

--> "Find peace in the embrace of the Goddess." (PreMortemOneLiner delivered to a merc and later, Morinth)


'''Morinth'''

--> "I love any game where your opponent can believe he is about to win... just before you kill him." (Samara's loyalty mission)

--> "I was into dueling for a while. I love the moment you see it in your opponent's eyes: he knows you're better and he's going to die." (Samara's loyalty mission)

--> "Look into my eyes and tell me you want me. Tell me you'd kill for me. Anything I want." (attempting to subjugate Shepard)

--> "My only crime is being born with the gifts you gave me." (confronting Samara)

--> "I am the genetic destiny of the asari. But they are not ready to reveal this, so I must die." (before Shepard chooses the victor between her and Samara)

--> "My lovers spent their last moments experiencing pleasure you can't imagine." (post-SuicideMission conversation)

--> "This what passes for food out here? My tastes run more along the lines of edible. Looks like worms... dead ones. This a human thing? Ugh. I'll pass. I'll eat almost anything, but I stress 'almost.'" (On the Citadel, upon seeing ramen)

--> "I would never stab you in the back, Shepard. People like you and me? Straight to the face. *after a brief pause* Kidding! Kidding! (Normandy conversation)

--> "Gotta figure... if all the people hoping we win stood up, the Collectors would have a much bigger fight on their hands. Claws. Whatever. I bet we have a lot more friends once we win. Hope we live to see it. [''Shepard responds''] It's a hell of a job, isn't it, Shepard? Being the good guy." (Normandy conversation)

--> "Cerberus never tells me that something is impossible. They give me my resources and say 'do it'."

--> "Organics fear us. We wish to understand, not incite." (Normandy conversation)

--> "Geth do not ''intentionally'' infiltrate." (Citadel conversation with C-Sec customs officer)

--> *Alarmed* "This platform is not available for experimentation." (Tali's loyalty mission)

--> "Windows are a structural weakness. Geth do not use them." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "No two species are alike. All must be judged based on their own merits. To compare another species to one's own is racist. Even benign anthropomorphism." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "Where did we go wrong? How have we become so different?" (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "We do not comprehend the organic fascination of self-poisoning, auditory damage and sexually transmitted disease." (inside Afterlife on Omega)

--> "Trade of organics is proscribed on places you call 'civilized'. Yet you do not question the restrictions placed on EDI aboard the ''Normandy''." (on Illium)

--> "Executing sudo command." (loyalty mission, hacking defense turrets)

--> *with guilt* "Hard to see big picture behind pile of corpses." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "Consider. The oceans are full of life. Yet it is not life as you and I know it. To enter it, you must release your hold on land. So it is with the soul. It must release its hold on the body, or it will become lost." (Normandy conversation)

--> '''Niftu Cal:''' I am a biotic god. I think things, and they happen! Fear me, lesser creatures, for I am biotics made flesh!

'''Shepard:''' Show me yours, tough guy. I bet mine's bigger. (Renegade interrupt)

--> (Thane's recruitment mission)\\
'''Shepard:''' "They tell me it's a suicide mission. I intend to prove them wrong."

--> "Aww, I was looking forward to crawling around in a dark basement!" (Garrus's recruitment mission, if told to stay with him)

--> '''Shepard:''' Hello?

--> '''Shepard:''' Do you really think she's worth a prayer?

--> "A suicide mission. Hmm. Yes. A suicide mission will do nicely." (recruitment phase conversation)

'''Merc Recruiter:''' Well, ain't that sweet. You're in the wrong place, honey. Stripper's quarters are that way.

!!Normandy crewmembers:

'''Prazza:''' No army would spend that many resources just for one soldier!\\
'''Tali:''' You don't know what Shepard's capable of. It was money well spent.

--> (After Samara's loyalty mission\\

--> "Aww, I was looking forward to crawling around in a dark basement!" (Garrus's recruitment mission)

A page for some of the better quotes from ''[[VideoGame/{{MassEffect2}} Mass Effect 2]]''.

--> '''Shepard:''' "I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions!" (Renegade Interrupt on Khalisah al-Jilani. Followed by a [[MemeticMutation SHEPARD PAWNCH]])

''Shepard [[DestinationDefenestration pushes the merc out the skyscraper window]]''\\
'''Shepard:''' How about goodbye? (Renegade interrupt)

'''Shepard:''' Do what you want with your toy ships. But leave my crew out of your political bullshit!

'''Shepard:''' We will fight and win without it. I will not let fear compromise who I am.

'''Shepard:''' I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line.

--> '''Shepard:''' And I'm going to do what you brought me back to do. I'll fight and win this war without compromising the soul of our species.

--> '''Shepard:''' "Hiding behind a hostage [[spoiler: Vasir.]] No stomach for a real fight. Just like an asari."
--> '''[[spoiler: Vasir]]:''' "Drop the thermal clips, Shepard."
--> '''Shepard:''' " You girls should just stick to dancing. You know, play to your strengths."

--> '''[[spoiler: Vasir]]:''' "Drop the clips."
--> '''Shepard:''' "I'm gonna kill your hostage, [[spoiler: Vasir]]. And then I'm going to show you how a real Spectre gets things done."

-->"Jacob is way too nice a guy for the number of ways he knows how to kill people."

-->"So yeah, geth...on the ship. Uh, ''geth''?! Ah, we're all fricking insane."

-->"I'm glad that mess is over for Tali, Commander. Some of those quarians… I guess living aboard a ship can really mess with your priorities? Not that I would know… ah, I just burned myself. Great."

-->"Great. This is were it starts. Then when we're turned into organic batteries guess who'll they'll blame. ''This is all Joker's fault. What a tool he was. I have to spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the Overlord.''"

-->"You know what pisses me off? Calling this the cockpit. Alliance ships have bridges. Asari have cockpits. Oh, wait. No they don't."

--> '''Engineer Donnelly:''' "So Gabby, what do you think of our new quarian boss?"
-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "Hush! She's right over there!"
-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "Ah, she can't hear us with her head in that bucket. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful bucket. The whole suit is lovely. Quite ''snug'', in all the right places."
-->'''Tali:''' "You know I can hear you."
-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "Hah!"

-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "That scunner can't cook a good haggis to save his life."
-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "Yeah, but all haggis tastes like ass anyway."
-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "Aye, but in the right hands, it can taste like mighty fine ass."

-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "I've got green across the board. The forward tanks are buoyant and elevated."
-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "Are you talking about the Normandy, or Miranda?"
-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "I'm talking about the one that's covered and protected, not bouncing in the breeze."
-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "I don't know. Operative Lawson's uniform is very official. It always makes me stand at attention."
-->'''Engineer Daniels:''' "You're such a dog."

-->'''Engineer Donnelly:''' "We're off to kick the Collectors right in their daddy-bags."

--> '''Garrus:''' "...hospitals aren't fun to fight through."
--> '''Shepard:''' "What is fun to fight through?"
--> '''Garrus:''' "Gardens, electronics shops. Antique stores, but only if they're classy."

--> "Less than a finger deep to sever your spine. You're soft. Salarians, asari, all soft. Quarians, not so much. Turians, you have to work the blade, I guess. Don't see much point to it though. Heh, much point. Ah, never mind." (Normandy conversation)

--> "Hello dead people!" (random combat taunt)

--> "That was mean...but damn funny." (If Shepard lets Niftu Cal take on the Eclipse mercenaries)

--> "I'm good, Shepard! Ready for anything! We live, we'll get loud; spill some drinks on the Citadel!" (Last ''Normandy'' conversation)

--> "Sneaking into the Captain's quarters? Heavy risk. But the ''priiiiiizeeeeee''..." (Romance)

--> "Ha ha!" (random combat taunt; possible ShoutOut to ''[[{{WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons}} The Simpsons]]'', given how she sounds like Nelson Muntz)

--> "How did [Donovan] Hock get Lady Liberty's head?! Damn you Hock!!!" (loyalty mission dialogue)

--> "I gotta say, that Jacob... Mmm. He seems pretty intense. I wonder if he likes Japanese girls with a penchant for kleptomania?" (Normandy conversation)

--> "I swear to God I didn't touch anything!" (said when first entering the Citadel with her in your party)

--> "Tali is so cute. You're all she talks about, in a rainbows-and-butterflies kind of way. She loves you, Shepard. Be good to her." (Normandy conversation, after romance with Tali)

-->"Oh, Shepard. The engine room? Really? Down there where Tali works? Okay, I gotta ask... just how genetically modified is she? Because -- wow." (Normandy conversation, after romance with Miranda)

--> "Lots of ways to help people. Sometimes heal patients; sometimes execute dangerous people. Either way helps." (recruitment phase conversation)

--> "Have ruled out the possibility of artificially intelligent virus. Unless it's *very* intelligent... and toying with me. Hmm... tests." (Normandy conversation)

--> "Shepard? Is that… you're alive?" (Freedom's Progress conversation)

--> "Please Shepard; I'm a quarian! Give me a hunk of scrap metal, a circuit board, and some element zero, and I'll have it making precision jumps!" (On asking her about the Normandy)

--> *Shepard confides in Tali* "I know... well no not that I know... it's just that... well... it's not normally like this... I mean, wow... its very hot in here." (Romance conversation)

--> "What could I possibly be suggesting? I mean, a young woman gets saved by a dashing commander who lets her join his crew and then goes off to save the galaxy? How could she possibly develop any interest in him?"

--> "I watched you save the colonists on Feros. No one else could have done that. I watched your face as Lieutenant Alenko[=/=]Chief Williams died on Virmire, I watched you stand strong against everything the galaxy threw at you. I watched you for so long. And yet I never thought you'd ever see past... this... (''gesturing at her helmet'')" (romance conversation)

--> "To pit living beings against each other for entertainment...unforgivable.
--> If I survive your mission, I may return here and instruct the krogan on compassion. I'll need many bullets."

--> "Find peace in the embrace of the Goddess." (PreMortemOneLiner delivered to a merc)

--> "I was just waxing goddamn nostalgic." (Normandy dialogue)

--> *addressing Vido Santiago* "BRING IT ON YOU SON OF A BITCH!" (loyalty mission dialogue)

--> "Sleep well... you deluded jackass." (if you stop Niftu Cal from going against the Eclipse captain)

-->'''Garrus''': "You ever miss those talks we had on the elevators?"
-->'''Tali''': "''No.''"
-->'''Garrus''': "Come on, remember how we'd all ask you about life on the flotilla? It was an opportunity to share."
-->'''Tali''': "This conversation is over."
-->'''Garrus''': "Tell me again about your immune system!"
-->'''Tali''': "I have a shotgun."
-->'''Garrus''': "Maybe we'll talk later."

-->'''Shepard:''' Wait a minute Mordin. You're just yanking me around, aren't you?
-->'''Mordin:''' Shocking suggestion! Doctor-patient confidentiality a sacred trust. Would never dream of mockery. Enjoy yourself while possible Shepard. Will be here studying cell reproduction. Much simpler. Less alcohol and mood music required.

-->'''Shepard:''' You just had to give'em tactical advice.

--> "There's some fire and from an alien! Oh, ''the shame'' this heaps on those who whine like pups." (Grunt's loyalty mission)

'''Aria:''' (''laughs dismissively'') I '''''am''''' Omega! But you want more. Everybody needs more something. And they all come to me. I'm the boss, CEO, queen if you're feeling dramatic. Omega has no titled ruler, and only one rule. Don't [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with Aria.

--> "Welcome back babe. Can I get you anything? Sorry, no sex. Just cleaned the bar."

-->'''Ken:''' Gabby, you'd say the ''Normandy's'' a she, right?\\

'''Ken:''' I'm just saying, there's a lot of female energy here.\\
'''Gabby:''' Ken, you're such a dick.\\

'''Miranda:''' Maybe, but I am human. I still make mistakes. And when I do, the consequences are severe.

Because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology.\\

--> "I watched your face as Lieutenant Alenko[=/=]Chief Williams died on Virmire, I watched you stand strong against everything the galaxy threw at you. I watched you for so long. And yet I never thought you'd ever see past... this..." (romance conversation)

I've studies species turian, asari and batarian,\\
I am good at genetics (as a subset of biology)\\
Because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology\\
\\

'''Shepard:''' This ship's going down in flames. I've got the only way out. I'm offering to take you with me. ''And you're arguing.''

-->"So, I'm thinking about taking up bullfighting. What do you think?"

--> '''Joker:''' You just want me to crawl through the ducts again.\\

--> *dodging an explosion* "Definitely like old times." (Tali's recruitment mission)

--> "I feel like... I'm pissed off. I'm a dangerous bitch. But then, I'm a little girl again. Shit. It's complicated." (loyalty mission conversation)

--> "I watched your face as Lieutenant Alenko[=/=]Chief Williams died on Virmire, I watched you stand strong against everything the galaxy threw at you..... I watched you for so long. And yet I never thought you'd ever see past... this..." (romance conversation)

--> "Your body is dust!" (using Warp)

--> "You humans are more individualistic than any other species I have encountered. If three humans are in a room, there will be six opinions." (Normandy conversation)

'''Jack:''' I'm not going anywhere with you. You're Cerberus.\\
'''Shepard:''' I'm offering to be your friend. You don't want to be my enemy.\\
'''Jack:''' You show up in a Cerberus frigate to take me away somewhere. You think I'm stupid?\\

--> '''Shepard:''' "Just once, I'd like to hear someone tell me, 'Sure, let's go. Right now. No strings attached.'"

'''Jack:''' You show up in a Cerberus frigate to take me away somewhere? You think I'm stupid?\\

'''Shepard:''' That doesn't explain why you have a piece of my armor on your chest.\\

'''Shepard:''' There wasn't anything else you could use? You couldn't fix it right away?\\

'''Jack:''' You think I'm stupid?\\
'''Shepard:''' This ship's about to go down. My ship's the only ride out of here. ''And you're arguing.''

--> '''Shepard:''' "Just once, I'd like to hear someone tell me, 'Sure, let's go! Right now! No strings attached!'"

'''Shepard:''' Then we will fight and win without it. I will not let fear compromise who I am.

--> "It's weird to see Miranda smiling while she's working. And it's all because of you. Be gentle with her, Shepard." (Normandy conversation, after romance with Miranda)

-->"Shepard, the engine room? Down there where Tali works? Okay, I gotta ask... just how genetically modified is she? Cause, I mean, like -- wow." (Normandy conversation, after romance with Miranda)

--> "We know more about the Collectors than anyone. We both know there's a good chance that we're not coming back. So don't die! You promise me, dammit!" (Romance)

'''Shepard:''' Why do you have a piece of my armor on your chest?\\

'''Shepard:''' Why use my armor? Wasn't there anything else you could use to patch it up?\\

--> "Omega has no titled ruler, and only one rule. Don't [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with Aria." (First conversation with her on Omega)

'''Shepard:''' We are on a mission! You can either fight by my side or be crushed beneath my heel, but you will ''not'' stand in my way!

--> "I had reach, she had flexibility." (Normandy conversation; can be a springboard for a female Shepard romance)

--> "Stop smiling, dammit." (Renegade Shepard romance)