The Great Big Book of Quotes
Stories reflect the essence of the human experience, allowing us to vicariously understand what it means to be an evolved monkey floating around on a big ol’ space rock
The Great Big Book of Quotes is a compilation of extracts from stories which have shaped who I am so, maybe, you understand me a lil better.
“Pirates are Evil? Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history. Children who have never known peace and children who have never seen war have different values!Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is a neutral ground!”
“Justice will prevail you say, of course it will. Those who win the war, become Justice”
— Donquixote Doflamingo
One Piece (1997- ) by Eiichiro Oda
“It's not about if I can or not . I'm doing it because I want to. I've decided long ago that I'm gonna be the King of the Pirates, if I've to die fighting for that, then thats fine with me”
“I don’t want to rule anything. Being the King of the Pirates is about being more free than anyone
“As long as I live, there are infinite chances”
— Monkey D Luffy
“You may be lonely at first... but one day you'll find true friends! Yea, the sea is a vast place so I guarantee... someday you'll find friends that will never leave you. No matter who you are ain't no one born into this world to be alone!! ”
— Jaguar D Saul
Avatar the last Airbender (2005-2008) by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko
“In the darkest of times, hope is something you give yourself .”
— Zuko
“Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else”
— Iroh
“The strength of your heart makes you who you are”
“I know sometimes it hurts more to hope and it hurts more to care. But you have to promise me, you wont stop caring”
“I will never, ever, turn my back on people who need me!”
— Katara
“The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.”
— Lion Turtle
My Hero Academia (2014-2024) by Kohei Horikoshi
“Meddling when you don’t need to is the essence of being a Hero!!”
— Izuku Midorya
“The future is a path for the young to walk on. A path with many choices. That’s why... I must win. So that when the young people walk on that path... the mistakes adults made in the past don’t block their way.”
— Enji Todoroki (Endeavor)
“You too can become a hero… ”
— Toshinori Yagi (All Might)
Shingeki no Kyojin (2009-2021) by Hajime Isayama
“And all of a sudden, I remembered. I’d seen it all before . Many, many times since the day I was born. It’d been all around me, forever. But… I always looked the other way.
Yea.. The world is a cruel place…
but its also beautiful… ”
— Mikasa Ackerman
“Everybody I've met... was all the same. Drinking... Women... Worshipping God, even... Family... The King... Dreams... Children... Power... Everyone had to be drunk on somethin' to keep pushing on. Everyone... was a slave to somethin'”
— Kenny Ackerman
“We're born free. All of us. Free. Some don't believe it, some try to take it away. To hell with them! Water like fire, mountains of ice, the whole bit. Lay your eyes on that, and you'll know what freedom is, that it's worth fighting for! Fight to live, risk it all for even a glimmer of real freedom! It doesn't matter what's waiting outside the gate, or what comes in! It doesn't matter how cruel the world can be, or how unjust!
Fight. Fight. Fight. FIGHT! FIGHT!!”
— Eren Yaeger
Full Metal Alchemist (2001-2010) by Hiromu Arakawa
“There’s no such thing as a painless lesson, they just don’t exist. Sacrifices are necessary; you can’t gain anything without losing something first. Although, if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it you’ll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yea, a heart made fullmetal.”
— Edward Elric
“Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.”