Mai quotes from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Mai

(to Azula) Please tell me you're here to kill me.

Mai

[About Omashu.] There really is no fathoming the depths of my hatred for this place.

Mai

She [Azula] can shoot all the lightning she wants at me, I'm not going into that wall sludge juice. (Shudders, then closes hatch Katara, Sokka, and Ty Lee jumped into)

Mai

Saving the jerk who dumped me.

Ty Lee

[startled] What are you doing?

Zuko

What does it look like I'm doing?

Ty Lee

But... it's a portrait of your family.

Zuko

You think I care?

Ty Lee

I think you do-

Zuko

You don't know me, so why don't you just mind your own business?!

Ty Lee

...I know you.

Zuko

No, you don't! You're stuck in your little Ty Lee world, where everything is great all the time!

Mai

Zuko, leave her alone.

Zuko

"I'm so pretty, look at me! I can walk on my hands! Woo!" [flops down in the sand, facing away] Circus freak!

Ty Lee

[tearful and angrily] Yes, I'm a circus freak! Go ahead and laugh all you want! You wanna know why I joined the circus?

Azula

Here we go...

Ty Lee

Do you have any idea what my home life was like, growing up with six sisters who looked exactly like me?! It was like, I didn't even have my own name! I joined the circus because I was scared of spending the rest of my life as a matched set! At least I'm different now! "Circus Freak" is a compliment!

Mai

I guess that explains why you need ten boyfriends, too.

Ty Lee

I'm sorry, what?

Mai

Attention issues? You couldn't get enough attention when you were a kid, so you're trying to make up for it now.

Ty Lee

Well, what's your excuse, Mai? You were an only child for fifteen years, but even with all that attention, your aura is just this dingy, pale, grey-

Mai

I don't believe in auras.

Zuko

Yeah... you don't believe in anything.

Mai

[sarcastically] Oh, well, I'm sorry I can't be as crazy and high-strung as the rest of you.

Zuko

I'm sorry, too; I wish you would be high-strung and crazy for once, instead of keeping all your feelings bottled up inside. She just called your aura dingy, are you gonna take that?

Mai

What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how bad my childhood was? Well, it wasn't. I was a rich only child who got anything I wanted... as long as I behaved. And sat still. And didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dad's political career to think about.

Azula

Well, that's it then: you had a controlling mother with certain expectations, and if you strayed from them, you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything... and why you can't express yourself.

Mai

[stands up, angrily] You want me to express myself? LEAVE ME ALONE!

Mai

So, how did it go?

Zuko

When I got to the meeting, everyone welcomed me. My father had saved me a seat; he wanted me next to him. I was literally, at his right hand.

Mai

Zuko, that's wonderful! You must be happy.

Zuko

During the meeting, I was the perfect Prince. The son my father wanted... [closes his eyes] But I wasn't me.

Mai

I thought you ran off and joined the circus? You said it was your calling.

Ty Lee

Well, Azula called a little louder.

Mai

Wads of wet fur, how delightful.

Ty Lee

Hmm, they're not wads, they're more like, bundles. Or bunches? It's got an "uh" sound.

Mai

...Clumps?

Ty Lee

(hugs Mai) Clumps! They're clumps!

Mai

Orange is such an awful color.

Zuko

You're so beautiful when you hate the world.

Mai

I don't hate you.

Zuko

I don't hate you, too.

Zuko

It smells like old lady in here.

Mai

Gee, I wonder why.

Ty Lee

[to Zuko and Mai, who have been arguing] Calm down, you guys! This much negative energy is bad for your skin; you'll totally break out.

Zuko

Bad skin?! Normal teenagers worry about bad skin! I don't have that luxury! My father decided to teach me a permanent lesson - ON MY FACE!

Ty Lee

Sorry, Zuko, I--

Zuko

For so long now I thought if my dad accepted me, I'd be happy. I'm back home now, my dad talks to me, he even thinks I'm a hero! Everything should be perfect, right? I should be happy now, but I'm not. I'm angrier than ever and I don't know why!

Azula

There's a simple question you need to answer, then. Who are you angry at?

Zuko

No one! I'm just... angry.

Mai

Yeah, who are you angry at, Zuko?

Zuko

Everyone! I don't know!

Azula

Is it Dad?

Zuko

No, no.

Ty Lee

Your uncle?

Azula

Me?

Zuko

No! No, no, no!

Mai

Then who? Who are you angry at?

Azula

Answer the question, Zuko.

Ty Lee

Talk to us!

Mai

Come on, answer the question.

Azula

Come on, answer it.

Zuko

[makes their fire blaze] I'M ANGRY AT MYSELF!

Azula

I never expected this from you. The thing I don't understand is why? Why would you do it? You know the consequences.

Mai

I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do. You miscalculated. I love Zuko more than I fear you.

Azula

(yelling) No, YOU miscalculated! You should have feared me more! (She and Mai prepare to fight, but Ty Lee suddenly attacks Azula. She gasps and falls down, paralyzed.)

Ty Lee

(runs to Mai) Come on, let's get out of here!

Azula

(growling) You're both fools!

What shall we do with them, Princess?

Azula

Put them somewhere I'll never have to see their faces again. And let them rot!

Zuko

Mai, you're okay. They let you out of prison?

Mai

My uncle pulled some strings. And it doesn't hurt when the new Fire Lord is your boyfriend.

Zuko

So...Does it mean you don't hate me anymore?

Mai

I think it means, I actually kind of like you.

Mai

(taps his shoulder with her finger twice) But don't ever break up with me again. (Zuko smiles looking scared)

Sokka

Zuko, stop moving. I'm trying to capture the moment. I wanted to do a painting so we always remember the good times together.

Katara

That's very thoughtful of you, Sokka. (sees the painting, her eyes narrow) Wait. Why did you give me Momo's ears?

Sokka

[offended] Those are your hair loops!

Zuko

(comes over, eyes narrowed also.) At least you don't look like boar-cupine. My hair is not that spiky!

Mai

I look like a man.

Suki

And why did you paint me firebending?

Sokka

I thought it would look more exciting that way

Sokka

Oh, you think you can do a better job, Momo?

Iroh

Hey, my belly is not that big anymore. I really trimmed down.

Well, I think you all look perfect.