Hohenheim quotes from Fullmetal Alchemist

They start out as innocent children, but over time their powers corrupt them.

You can't trust anyone who lives that long.

[sees Sloth, flashbacks to life with Trisha, Edward and Alphonse] You should have told me... Our sons... You should've told me what they attempted when I came back... No... No, I think I knew, I just...didn't want to believe... Trisha... I love you. I always will...

Winry

" You spent the night out here again?"

" Hmm? Oh, thanks for waking me. I could've slept all day, I've been losing track of time. Tell me, when did Trisha die?"

Winry

" It's been six long years."

" I see ... The boys must've been torn up over their loss.[Looks at the tombstone he's leaning on and sees the name of Winry's mother on it.]My God, I've done it twice. I was thinking you were Sara again."

Winry

" You must've been good friends with her. i guess memories don't age. Sara was my mom, and a great one at that."

" So much pain ... All because of that damned war."

Winry

" I can't imagine what it was like there. Supposedly my parents, they were executed by the millitary they went to help. All because they were treating the wounded Ishbalans the same way."

" How sad we are."

Winry

" You can't sum this up with one word ... It's a lot more than just sad. When I was little, I'd imagine the people who killed my parents as demons. But now I know the man who did it and I respect him, somehow ... I feel lost ... I don't know how to make sense of all this anymore."

" There's no good reason. We're all lost ... That's why we're sad."

Edward. So, do you still hate drinking milk?

Edward

[kicks Hohenheim] WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MICRO-SIZED HALF-PINT WHO DIDN'T GROW UP BECAUSE HE DOESN'T DRINK MILK?!

That's not what he said, Edward...

"By looking at your body... I can guess that --"

"There's not much to tell... We failed a transmutation and I lost my arm and leg... Al lost his body. That's all."

"But Edward, Alchemy isn't something --"

"Shut up! You just can't show up here and start acting like a father. Not when we had to watch mom die without you. C'mon, Al."

Dante, I want you to stop using my sons as pawns for your malicious games. In exchange for that promise, I'll tell you why your new body is rotting too.

Heh, perhaps but it's been centuries since our last meeting, Hohenheim. We'll have plenty of time to talk later. Right now, why don't you help me enjoy this new body? [licks her arm]

Sorry, But I have a wife.

So? I was married as well wasn't I? Again, and again, and again, and again. After all, if I stayed with one of them, he'd have noticed my slowly aging body and our secret would be out.

Thats where we're different. Trisha was my first and my last. The only woman I ever really loved.

How odd. 400 years ago, when we first met, back when I was still an innocent...you whispered words of love to me. Or do my memories deceive me?

No, they don't.

On that day, 400 years ago... [goes to flashback, which Dante is narrating] ...we had finally achieved our goal. By using the lives those sentenced to hang during the witch hunts, and those who were dying of the plague. By repeating our experiments relentlessly, despite countless failures. We finally grasped it, the Philosopher's Stone. But the demands of the transmutation took its toll on you. You were dying. Out of sheer impulse, I attached your soul to the body of another man. And it was then, that we discovered eternal life. [end flashback]

So by using the Philosopler's Stone, you transplanted your souls again and again?

Yes, thats right.

Why did you have us find someone to make the stone if you already had one?!

After Hohenheim of Light left my side, I needed a new stone. And I didn't know how to make one on my own. That's why. [to Hohenheim] Tell me, why did you leave? Wasn't eternal life enough for you?

Dante, there is no such thing as eternal life.

[carrying Rose's child] I've been doing some research since you've been gone, trying to learn more about the Gate that is the source of all our alchemic power. I've discovered some fascinating things, Hohenheim. Would you like to know what lies beyond the Gate? You can't tell me you haven't been just a little bit curious. [child begins crying] Did you know a part of the Gate is actually within all of us? As our consciousness matures and we grow more attached to this world, we lose our awareness of it, but by using someone who's link is still strong, like a baby, the Gate can be summoned. [places hand on Hohenheim's cheek] I'm going to show you, my darling. See for yourself, just what is beyond the Gate. [throws baby in the air, transmutation circle on the child glows, Hohenheim stands before the gate]

[as Gate opens] Trisha...our boys will be fine... They're yours after all...and mine. [is pulled into the Gate]

This world is tragically violent. Throughout the course of this war millions of people have been killed with the use of highly toxic gases, but the single most terrifying instrument of death is yet to come. You saw it in the gate, didn't you? [Edward remembers an image of the atomic bomb cloud above Nagasaki.] The lives of those that have died and will die in this world become the energy for the alchemy used in ours.

Edward

The energy? That doesn't make sense...What about the-

-law of Equivalent Exchange? There's something you don't understand. It takes more than equal mass to restore a broken radio. The energy used to put it back together must come from somewhere, too. And energy cannot be created or destroyed; only redirected.

Edward

So that's the secret? The lives of the people who die here cross the Gate and become energy we need for transmutations? Is that what you're telling me?

Inside all of us there lies a smaller version of the Gate you passed through. Alchemists have the ability to open their Gates, crossing worlds and feeding off the tragedies of this one. It happens every time you draw a circle or clap hands.

Edward

You sound just like that head case Dante! All the same crap about there being no Equivalent Exchange!

I wasn't aware you knew about her.

Edward

I know everything! I know the two of you were lovers because I read the letter. I know you've been keeping yourselves alive jumping from one body to another. But what I don't understand is if you and that evil bitch were so perfect together, why did you feel the need to marry my mother?! Did you get some sick satisfaction out of pretending to be a normal human?!

I loved your mother. With all of my being, I had never loved until her. You have to believe that.

Edward

Then why?! Why did you leave us?!

[Pulls up his sleeve to reveal decaying flesh.] I just couldn't let you see me like this. The thought of it was too much for me to bear.

Planning a trip Edward?

Edward

Look.

A Liquid Fuel Rocket... by Robert Hutchins Goddard.

Edward

He's an American. But there's another guy studying the same thing in Transylvania right now.

Wouldn't happen to be named Dracula, would he?

Edward

Nah, it is Hermann Oberth. He has been a student here in Munich. I'm going to go see him.

You mind telling me why?

Edward

He thinks he can get to outer space in a rocket. No one knows what is up there and beyond. Maybe it is like the gate. A portal between different worlds.

Haven't you studied Einstein's theories?

Edward

No one believes him.

If you can't go by alchemy, you go by machines, is that the plan son?

Edward

I know my alchemy did something. I saw Al put back together at the gate. I thought it was for me. Then I woke up here, and until I understand why I have to keep working.

You knew the only way to keep your body and mind is to cometo this side. So you did it without thinking. Subconsciously, as Freud would say.

Edward

Still. When Al returned to me, I lost again. I should have found a better method.

But nothing's ever perfect, haven't you realized that yet? Earth turns on a tilted axis, just doing the best it can.

Edward

It's wrong. I thought I made an equal exchange--my body, mind, and soul for his. Yet here I am, still alive. So does that mean Dante was right, except to the opposite extreme, and I got something for nothing? Or does that mean that in reality Al wasn't...

You boys had a long journey together. All the people you helped along the way, all the hardships, the pain of loosing friends you loved, the determination, sweat, and blood, don't you think that may have been the price you paid?