Richard Thomas Quotes

Saint-Exmin I am Saint Exmin of the ]. It's been a very enjoyable fight.

Shad Live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.

Shad The First Law of the Varda is to use greater force against itself.

Shad Nanelia, the Akira believe that no form ends until all the lives that it has touched are ended, until all the good that it has done is gone.

Paul Bäumer Not the Iron Youth then. No Iron Heroes. Just boys... wanna play, laugh, just stay alive. Only boys.

Paul Bäumer Well, Kat... I think we're gonna be separated. Three years. You remember when I first came up here? How green I was? You fixed that. "Keep your head down." That's what you said. Maybe... Maybe when this is over, when this war is really finished, maybe we can do something together. Huh? I don't know what. A glass of wine. I don't even know where you live. Three years in the same trenches, I don't even have your address. Let me give you mine. Let me give it to you.

Cayman HAIL THE CONQUERING HEROES!

Shad I'm sorry. I think they must be afraid.

Cayman Afraid? Of what?

Shad Of you. They're not accustomed to violence or violent forms.

Saint-Exmin That's a hell of a note!

Shad Did you know that there's a form in the black galaxy who's children have no immune system till the age of five cycles? That means that the slightest trace of infection they would rot just like fallen fruit.

Talking Android I have heard of them. The Huddites.

Nanelia Who asked you?

Shad When they reach the age of five cycles, all the relatives gather together in a special room, and they watch while the child tears and bites at this plastoid with its teeth and nails, till it breaks out into the arms of its parents, feels their skin for the first time, feels the wetness on their cheeks for the first time.

Talking Android It's horrible out there. Forms preying on other forms. Death.

Shad Most of them never do develop immunities. They die shortly afterwards, but the Huddites still feel that the breaking out ceremony is very beautiful.

Cowboy Here comes somebody else. Who's that?

Shad Do you want your name used?

Gelt My name is Gelt.

Cowboy Where ya from, Gelt? I'm from Earth. Know where that is?

Gelt I was born in space.

Cowboy Oh, well, put in between us. I'll cover you.

Cowboy Okay, you keep a scanner on our tail.

Gelt I always do.

Saint-Exmin Shad, did you see me on the monitor? There was a drone right on my tail. I pulled out; he smashed into an asteroid!

Shad Let me tell you something. This may just be a game to you, but these are my people.

Saint-Exmin I'm sorry. I forgot about your Varda. I am from a warrior race. We EXIST for battle. Our creed is to live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.

Shad NO violent ending is beautiful.

Saint-Exmin You've never seen a Valkyrie go down.

Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky Be careful with these uniforms, boys. They have to be handed down to the next bunch of heroes that gets reviewed by the ].

Paul Bäumer Kat, why do you think we're in this war?

Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky To protect the Fatherland.

Josef Behm What are the French fighting for?

Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky Protect the Motherland.

Tjaden And whose right?

Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky Whoever wins.

Cowboy Beautiful. I love to see a pro work!

Shad He's got a lot of practice. Nell, I think we may have bought ourselves a chance! Let's head to the surface!

Shad I'm hiring mercenaries to protect against an invasion, but food and shelter is all we can offer in payment. All of our wealth is in our culture.

Gelt I could buy your planet ten times over with what I've gathered in this room: plutonium, cadmium, qualine crystals... I've been very well paid for my work.

Shad I'm sorry. I've wasted your time.

Gelt NO! Wait. Listen to the rest of it, I sleep with my back to the wall... when I CAN sleep. I eat serpents seven times a week. There's not a major city in this galaxy where I can show my face, or spend my wealth. Right now, your offer looks very attractive to me... A meal, and a place to hide.

Paul Bäumer I didn't want to kill you. But you jumped in here like that. What would you have done? It's... it's just I'd never met you before... like this... face to face. I just saw your rifle... your bayonet... grenades. If we threw all those away... we could be brothers. But they never want us to know that, do they? They never want us to know. We each have mothers... fathers... the same... fear of death. The same... pain. The same... everything. Everything. Forgive me, comrade. I could write... to your family. Yes... Yes, I'll write!

Gelt What a place to end up - a minor planet in a third-rate galaxy.

Shad Have somebody prepare a meal.

Crew member A meal?

Shad Full course, then bury it with him.

Crew member Bury it?

Shad That was our arrangement: A meal and a place to hide.

Cayman I'm only in this for Sador. I want his head.

Shad Oh. Well, you're welcome to it.

Saint-Exmin The Valkyrie are great warriors. In our youth, we must leave home and fight in many battles until we have proven ourselves.

Shad Well, you've proven yourself to be a pain in the neck. So why don't you just... fly off?

Saint-Exmin But I wish to fight.

Shad My PLANET is in danger, and you're playing TAG with me! Your ship is like a toy; you have no firepower.

Saint-Exmin It's one of the fastest in the universe.

Shad Well, the Varda teach us that "swift rain is little rain.

Saint-Exmin But I WANT to join.

Shad But we don't want you, we don't need you, and we won't have you, so go count your coup somewhere else.

Nell You were a little harsh, weren't you?

Shad You saw her. She was PLAYING with me.

Nell Yes... and she WON.

Shad The Varda teach us that each form has its function.

Nestor 1 We are Nestor.

Shad All of you?

Nestor 1 This is but a facet. These are but facets. There are hundreds of thousands like us at home and scattered throughout the universe. We are Nestor.

Shad You're clones.

Nestor 1 In a manner of speaking. We share identical consciousness. What one sees, all see. What one knows, all know.

Shad And all of you want to help us?

Nestor 1 These five facets, yes. Four of us are required to operate this ship.

Shad What about the fifth?

Nestor 1 We always carry a spare.