Avatar: The Last Airbender quotes

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Koh: It's been a long time since I've added a child's face to my collection. So, how may I help you?
Aang: I need to find the moon and the ocean.
Koh: Their spirit names are Tui and La - "push" and "pull". And that has been the nature of their relationship for all time.
Aang: Please, help me find them. An entire culture could be destroyed if I don't get their help.
Koh: Oh, you think you need their help? Actually, it's quite the other way round... SOMEONE'S GOING TO KILL THEM!
Aang: What do you mean? How can I find them and protect them?
Koh: You've already met them. Tui and La, the moon and ocean, have always circled each other in an eternal dance. They balance each other. Push and Pull. Life and Death. Good and Evil. Yin and Yang.
Aang: (remembering the fish in the Spirit Oasis) The Koi Fish! (Koh spins back to Aang, who quickly wipes the excitement off his face) I must be going now.
Koh: We'll meet again...

Katara: The King is throwing a party at the palace tonight for his pet bear.
Aang: Don't you mean platypus bear?
Katara: No, it just says, 'bear'.
Sokka: Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear?
Toph: Or his armadillo bear?
Aang: Gopher bear?
Katara: Just, 'bear'.
(short pause)
Toph: This place is weird.

Sokka: (posing as the captain of the airship) Attention crew, this is your captain speaking. Everyone please report to the bomb bay immediately for hotcakes and sweet cream. We have a very special birthday to celebrate.
(cut to the bomb bay):
Quin Lee: Hey, I'm Quin Lee. I work up in communications.
Fire Nation Engineer: Oh, hi. I work down in the engine room. That's probably why we never met before. Big airship, you know.
Quin Lee: Yep. (a pause) So, do you know who's birthday it is?
Firebender: I can't believe the captain remembered my birthday. He really does care!
(The bomb bay hatch opens, dropping the entire crew in the sea)
Fire Nation Engineer: (surfaces from the water) Happy birthday.

Avatar Kyoshi: In my day, Chin the Conqueror threatened to throw the world out of balance. I stopped him, and the world entered a great era of peace.
Aang: But you didn't really kill Chin; technically, he fell to his own doom because he was too stubborn to get out of the way.
Avatar Kyoshi: Personally, I don't really see the difference, but I assure you, I would have done whatever it took to stop Chin. I offer you this wisdom, Aang, only justice will bring peace.
Aang: I knew I shouldn't have asked Kyoshi.

Aang (at the Ozai practice dummy): You think you're untouchable, don't you, Mr. Fire Lord?!
Momo: Boy, you are really starting to lose it, kid.
Aang: Momo, did you hear something?
Momo: No, but I said something.
Aang: Uh... (he looks at Momo)
Momo: You, my friend, are just a few plums short of a fruit pie. (Aang's mouth hangs open, he shakes his head, and looks at Momo again; Momo chatters)

Katara: I have a crazy idea...
Aang: What?
Katara: Never mind. It's too crazy.
Aang: Katara, what is it?
Katara: (looking away) I was thinking... the curse says we'll be trapped in here forever unless we trust in love.
Aang: Right.
Katara: And here it says "love is brightest in the dark" and...has a picture of them kissing...
Aang: (clueless) Where are you going with this?
Katara: Well...what if we kissed?
Aang: (shocked) Us kissing?!
Katara: See? It was a crazy idea.
Aang: Us...(dreamily) kissing.
Katara: (laughing) Us, kissing. What was I thinking? Can you imagine that?
Aang: Yeah.(laughs) I definitely wouldn't want to kiss you.
Katara: (slightly hurt) Well, I didn't realize it was such a horrible option! Sorry I suggested it!
Aang: No, I mean, if it was a choice between kissing you and dying-
Katara: (turning away from him)Ugh!
Aang: What?! I'm saying I'd rather kiss you than die! That's a compliment!
Katara: Well, I'm not sure which I'd rather do! (walks away)
Aang: (sadly)What is wrong with me?

Katara: What does me being a girl have to do with sewing?
Sokka: Simple: girls are better at fixing pants than guys, and guys are better at hunting and fighting and stuff like that. It's just the natural order of things.
Katara: [with exaggerated happiness] All done with your pants! [throws them, they hit Sokka in the head] And look what a great job I did!
Sokka: Wait! I can't wear this! Katara! [sticks his hand through the hole in his pants]
Aang: Relax, Sokka. Where we're going, you won't need any pants!

(Sokka and Chong's group have been reunited with Aang and Katara outside the cave)
Katara: (to Sokka) Sokka, why is your forehead all red?
Chong: (to Katara and Aang) Nobody react to what I'm about to tell you... (points to Aang in the background) I think that kid might be the Avatar!
Sokka: (slaps forehead, red mark gets bigger)

Aang (while he and Zuko are still trapped in the chamber with the green glue-like substance): You had to pick up the glowing egg, didn't you?
Zuko: At least I made something happen! If it were up to you, we'd never made across the courtyard!
Aang: HHHEEEEEEEEELLLLLLPPP!
Zuko: Who are you yelling to? Nobody's lived here for centuries!
Aang: Well, what do you think we should do?
Zuko: ...Think about our place in the Universe?

Ty Lee: Thank goodness you're here, Azula. These boys won't leave me alone. I think they all just like me too much!
Azula: Oh come on, Ty Lee, you can't be that stupid.
Ty Lee: What do you mean?
Azula: You make it too easy for them, you're a tease. It's not like they actually care who you are.
(Ty Lee starts crying)
Azula: Okay, okay, I'm sorry. It's just that I'm a little (pauses and whispers) jealous.
Ty Lee: Of me? But you're the smartest, prettiest girl in the whole world!
Azula: Well, you're right about those things, but every time I try to talk to boys, they act like I'm going to do something horrible to them...
Ty Lee: But you probably would do something horrible to them. Okay, look. If you want a boy to like you, just look at him, and smile a lot, and laugh at everything he says, even if it's not funny.
Azula: Well, that sounds really shallow and stupid... Let's try it!
Ty Lee: Right. [puts on a boyish voice] Hey there, sweet sugar-cakes. How ya likin' this party?
[Azula does a loud and exaggerated laugh, distracting everybody]
(Azula notices a volleyball game)

Zuko: (trying to comfort Sokka) Oh, what would Uncle say? Sometimes, clouds have two sides- a dark and light, and a silver lining in between. It's like a silver sandwich! So, when life seems hard...take a bite out of the silver sandwich.
Sokka: Maybe we haven't failed after all!
Zuko: That's the spirit! I can't believe that worked. I didn't even know what I was saying.
Sokka: No, what you said made no sense at all. But look! It's Suki!

(after Princess Yue unexpectedly kisses him)
Sokka: Okay, now I'm really confused. Happy, but confused.

Azula: That's a sharp outfit, Chan. Careful, you could puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battle ship, leaving thousands to drown at sea. [Points] Because... it's so sharp.
Chan: Ummm... Thaaanks.

Zuko: So far, this intermission is the best part of the play.
Sokka: Apparently, the playwright thinks I'm an idiot who tells bad jokes about meat all the time.
Suki: Yeah. You tell bad jokes about plenty of other topics.
Sokka: I know!
Aang: At least the Sokka actor kinda looks like you. But that woman playing the Avatar doesn't resemble me at all!
Toph: I don't know. You are more in touch with your feminine side than most guys.
[Aang growls]
Katara: Relax, Aang. They're not accurate portrayals. It's not like I'm a preachy crybaby who can't resist giving over-emotional speeches about hope all the time.
[Everyone looks at Katara.]
Katara: What?
Aang: Yeah... that's not you at all.

(June and Nyla being "friendly")
June: Nyla! (Throws juicy meat to Nyla).
June: Who's my little, mmm, shnuffly, wuffly.
(Nyla attacks)
June: Whoa! Careful there. Okay, so who's got something with the Avatar's scent on it?
Katara: I have Aang's staff.
(Nyla searches, but finds that Aang is no where he can smell.)
Zuko: Well, what does that mean?
June: Means you're friend's gone!
Toph: We know he's gone, that's why we're trying to find him.
June: No I mean he's gone gone. He doesn't exist!