Dante quotes from Fullmetal Alchemist

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]

Izumi

I was hoping you'd be happy for me.

Do not expect me to coddle you, Izumi, I haven't the talent.

Izumi

I'm leaving you and this forest... I'm going to live in the city, among the people who need me.

If approval is what you're looking for, then you might as well enlist and become a state alchemist. I heard they praise their dogs well in the military.

Izumi

Tell me something.

I think you should go now.

Izumi

Did you ever... Did you ever love anyone other than yourself, Dante?

Why should I love any human being? They are all ignorant, egoistical things beyond redemption. Once they learned how to use gun powder, they thought only about waging war. If they ever understood the secrets of alchemy, what a horrible tragedy that would be.

Izumi

DON'T FORGET THAT I AM A HUMAN BEING, DANTE, AND THAT YOU ARE TOO!!

(Dante sits there smile on her face; flash back ends)

Rose

Don't do this.

That sound. What did he just do?

Envy

Gluttony. He used alchemy with the stone!

You petulant boy. Look at the damage you've inflicted upon yourself. Sit down before your wasted completely.

Alphonse

Stay back! You can't make me do anything.

And what do you think you can pull off?

Alphonse

Brother hasn't been dead for long. Look, there is still some color in his face. His soul is probably still at the gate. I just have to pull it back. The same way he did for me.

Don't be a fool. Do you know what would happen to you?

Alphonse

Yea, I do. A lot of people died to make this stone. And I would have died too, if not for them. It's time I gave my share, and made my own choice. Goodbye Rose. This is for you brother, I'll miss you.