"'What I find fantastic is that there are any answers beyond the realms of science…' The audience goes on such a long journey with Scully over nine seasons that it is weird to look back to the very beginning where she was so fresh faced and naïve about the horrors she is about to face. You can imagine her life skipping along happily (or as happily as somebody who is as rigid as Scully is) from one success to another until the point where she meets Mulder and it all goes frighteningly downhill...Mulder makes a gag about Scully being the head of the Bureau in 2026 – it obviously never occurred to him that he is going to drag her down into the mud."
— Doc Oho
on The X-Files, "Pilot"
on The X-Files, "Pilot"Twisting and turning
Her feelings are burning
You're breaking the girl...
Her feelings are burning
You're breaking the girl...
— Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Breaking the Girl"
A memory I will always treasure. The big, innocent green eyes fluttering open. The scream that penetrated every wall and floor of the house. The scream that would not stop. It took both her parents an hour to get her back to sleep.
"Why am I not leaving, Dr. Reid? Because I don't want to miss you breaking down and weeping in front of everyone! Oh, here it comes! Great big tears! Great big crocodile tears!"
— Dr. Kelso, Scrubs
"My name is Oerba Dia Vanille. I'm a L'Cie, from Gran Pulse, and to everyone on Cocoon... Evil. Shoot me, Sazh! For your son!"
— Vanille, Final Fantasy XIII
"Or maybe it's because beautiful things are so easily broken by the world."
— Jocelyn Fray, talking about Jace's mother Celine, City of Fallen Angels
A long, long time, watching the blood volume tick down, seeing how the breathing rate changed, and the heartbeat slowed. Knowing how the brain would be affected, knowing what the organs were doing, and the order they were shutting down.
At some point, it ceased to be mommy, became something else. A moment when her mommy became only a dying thing, a machine of flesh and blood that was winding down.
It was easier.
Didn’t make her chest hurt as much.
— Bonesaw, Worm
"Despair, the end of the world.
I hear the rising phoenix in my dreams.
And the Virgin Child made a wish upon a star,
that night her mother talks no more.
Cape of hope, the end of a dream.
A shining fish splashes in a stream.
And the Virgin Child loses her heart and soul,
that night her mother's eyes see no more.
When the wind blows, the Virgin Child's corpse sings a song,
such a pretty melody, never heard before!
No more lullabies!
The Virgin Child smiles from Hell!"
I hear the rising phoenix in my dreams.
And the Virgin Child made a wish upon a star,
that night her mother talks no more.
Cape of hope, the end of a dream.
A shining fish splashes in a stream.
And the Virgin Child loses her heart and soul,
that night her mother's eyes see no more.
When the wind blows, the Virgin Child's corpse sings a song,
such a pretty melody, never heard before!
No more lullabies!
The Virgin Child smiles from Hell!"
— Dr. Peace, No More Heroes, summing up pretty much most of the plot of the game.
"Life is not a song, sweetling. You may learn that one day, to your sorrow."
— Littlefinger, A Song of Ice and Fire, to Sansa Stark
You were once a sweet little girl
So innocent and pure
Your eyes were open and sure
Anyone could look right in...
— "I Knew You Before", by Dustin Kensrue
"I feel something inside. It's like the opposite of happiness. I Must...stay...positive! *Hyperventilating* "Uh...Bubblegums!" *More Hyperventilating* "Butterflies?"
— Unikitty, after her home is destroyed, The LEGO Movie
And this is how you take one of the sweetest, cutest, nicest, kindest girls in the series and absolutely destroy her sanity. I mean, telling her that she's going to die, her friends aren't really her friends, and then slaughtering her family right in front of her? Jesus Christ, that's just fucking evil.
"It's not true! Cosmo was just here! I heard her voice... Sonic! I had faith you could save her! I BELIEVED IN YOU!!!!!"
— Miles "Tails" Prower after Cosmo's death, Sonic X
Star: I can't believe.. Ludo took my spell book. It's got everything in it! That's my whole family history! All the spells.. everything! It's lost!
Marco: We'll get it back. (Star hugs Marco and cries)
Star: (crying) I've lost Glossaryck!
Marco: W-we'll.. We'll get him back, too. I promise. (Star continues to cry)
Hilda: Everything's changed hasn't it?
Johanna: Yes, but it's the way of the world for things to change. It wasn't for nothing. We'll always have our memories of this place.
Hilda: [on the verge of tears] But that's all it is! Memories! Our house is gone. The mountains are gone. Our life here's gone. And now...[starts crying] now, Twig's gone too.
Johanna: Oh, Hilda...
[Hilda breaks down crying as she watches the light of the Deerfox habitat fading away. Twig licks her tears away.]
Hilda: [still crying] Twig, stop it I'm not in the mood.
"You were right...there's no such thing as happily ever after."
— Mona Wu, Legends of Tomorrow, "Lucha de Apuestas"
"I– I don't know what Alivebur did, and I'm really trying to remember... But I know what I did. I just wrote books! I built... remember the lanterns we used to make? I built them, I– I built a house for people, I– I set up this a– I built this town, just like I built Logstedshire, and I've watched them BOTH blow up. And I didn't... I didn't– I didn't hurt anyone. And yet I'm the one who suffers, I'm the one who pays! Tommy didn't even live here, Tommy didn't have a house here. I... I sowed the seeds of peace, and yet I'm the one who pays for war. (sniffles) I KNOW I'm forgetful, I KNOW I'm an amnesiac and I KNOW I'm the comic relief in all your stories, but I STILL FEEL THIS, I still FEEL things! And I try my best to make sure no one else feels it!"
"When we were in Hong Kong we admired Miss Yen. We like listening to her sing. We were all staring at her just now, as we were wondering... wondering why she had changed so much. She's not pretty any more. She's lost her innocence. She's not happy any more. I wonder who was responsible for that?"
—Ben, Bullet in the Head
