• "I talk to anybody and everybody. I'm quite the chatterbox." / "There's a stone wall around you and those words you just said are some of the bricks." / "Bricks in a stone wall?"
• "Has anyone ever mentioned that when you smile, it would melt steel?" / "Inconvenient, in a spaceship. I'll smile less."

Atlantis

• Vinny: Well, as far as me goes, I just like to blow things up. / Dr. Sweet: Come on, Vinny. Tell the kid the truth. / Vinny: My family owned a flower shop. We would sell roses, carnations, baby's breath, you name it. One day, I'm making about three-dozen corsages for this prom—you know, the one they put on their wrist—and everybody, they come: "Where is it?", "When is it?", "Does it match my dress?" It's a nightmare. Anyway, I guess there was this leak next door of gas or what. BOOM! No more Chinese laundry. Blew me right through the front window. It was like a sign from God. I found myself that boom.

Baccano!

• "If you continue down this road, it will sometimes happen that you will have to go to prison and lose your freedom. It is also possible that you will lose your life at the end of a fight with someone whom you once called a friend. Do you understand? Your right foot stands in prison, and your left foot stand in a coffin. Even so will you be able to fix your eyes on the road ahead and achieve glory with your right hand? If it proves necessary, will you be able to end your life with your left hand?"

Benjamin Franklin

• Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.

Deadheat

• Yuhto: Catch? Is it some kind of metaphor? / Rob: Yeah. The act of throwing a ball to each other with another person is the same as any human relationships. You throw, and the other person throws back. It’s not good just to throw. It's meaningless unless it reaches to the other person. / Yuhto: You mean, it is only possible if both people make efforts? / Rob: Yes. Especially something like love. At the beginning, you can only see the other person’s glove, and try to throw in it. But as you get used to it, you lose sincerity and get bored. When one of you stops throwing, it’ll be the end. It’s futile and sad to keep throwing a ball to someone who has no intention of catching it. / Rob: Is it based on your own experience? / Yuhto: You are mean. But you're right. Without compassion, relationship does not last long. Fluttering heart is only temporary. In short, what important is whether you want to keep playing catch with that person.

Frederick Perls

• I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Gintama

• Huh? Was I casually insulted just now? Was that a stabbing feeling in my chest?
• Okita: Seeing your sister's underwear is no big deal. / Hijikata-san once saw his father in a bra. / Gintoki: I see. The shock from that incident was what made him change teams. / Hijikata: No, it wasn't!

Good Omens

• She finished the drink, hefted the sword over one shoulder, and looked around at the puzzled factions, who now encircled her completely. 'Sorry to run out on you, chaps,' she said. 'Would love to stay and get to know you better.' The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.

Jim Butcher

• "Hey, what's a best man for? Other than tackling a panicked groom if he tries to run."
• "That is Wagner, baby!"

Number

• "The goal was to kill the target. Nothing more and nothing less. This is the devil's business... Indiscriminate slaughter will only decrease the quality of the work. Even though I am a homicidal maniac, I am not a Revolutionist. I'm a Hitman."

Tamora Pierce

• Kel: He says he's changed. / Neal: I suppose he could have changed, I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil. / Kel: You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up. / Neal: We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring.
• "Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello."
• "Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer."
• "Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak."
• "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound," he admitted cheerfully. "I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself."
• "Military folk. The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick."

Wolfram von Eschenbach

• "'Open!' 'To whom? Who is there?' 'I wish to enter your heart.' 'Then you want too narrow a space.' 'How is that? Can't I just squeeze in? I promise not to jostle you. I want to tell you marvels.'"