Motoko quotes from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

You came here to capture Kuze.

Motoko

What the hell.

You're idiots. Kuze will never be caught by the likes of you. He's the real thing, he's a legend.

Batou

Major, what the hell's going on? You never screwed up like this before. Kuze's not here, and we've just lost one of our own damn rookies. In an ambush by a handful of armed refugees!

Motoko

I know. Sorry, because he was never even here to begin with.

Batou

Huh?

Motoko

Kuze is securing a deal with the Russian mafia for plutonium. He's in Etorofu.

Motoko

Kuze?

Yes?

Motoko

Do you know how to fold origami cranes?

Cranes?

Motoko

That's right, and only using your left hand.

With the correct control software, anyone can do that.

Motoko

No, that's not what I mean.

Can you do that, fold left handed?

Motoko

Now I can.

It sounds like you've endured your fair share of loneliness too. I never asked, but who are you? What's your name?

Motoko

Don't recall, I do have a pseudonym though. It's the same thing with you, isn't it?

I see, you're right. The refugees have given me countless names. I joined forces with them with the intent to save them. But maybe the real reason I united with them was to keep the loneliness at bay.

Motoko

Yet in the end you couldn't make it go away, because others could rely on you, but you couldn't rely on them.

Do you have someone you can open yourself up to?

Motoko

I suppose I do.

I see, I've been looking for mine, for a long long time.