Starlight Glimmer quotes from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Starlight Glimmer

Well, this will certainly provide a boost to our little community. When the rest of Equestria sees that a princess gave up her cutie mark to join us, they'll finally understand what we're trying to accomplish.

Starlight

In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie. Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friends.

Starlight

Welcome home, Twilight!

Starlight Glimmer

[nervously] I went with my gut.

Starlight Glimmer

Why couldn't we have been sent to stop a war or something?!

Starlight Glimmer

Guidance counseling is for talking out your problems, not telling me everything that's ever happened in the history of Equestria!

Starlight Glimmer

Thank goodness we're not like Twilight or the others. They'd probably sing a song about it.

Starlight

And here is the Staff of Sameness. It was one of the great mage Meadowbrook's nine enchanted items. We are incredibly fortunate to have it here. This is the tool that allows us to free ourselves from our marks! I'm curious – how did the subject of the vault come up?

Oh, some ponies were telling us how much they missed their cutie marks, and—

Twilight

Pinkie!

Oops.

Starlight

[gasps] Were they? Well, it seems you inspire all sorts of free thinking, don't you?

[laughs nervously] Well, w-we certainly didn't intend to cause any disruptions to your charming little—

Starlight

Good. Let's just make sure of that, shall we?

Twilight

It's a trap!

Starlight

Aw. I don't blame you for what you tried to do here today. You've spent your whole lives thinking those marks are a good thing.

Twilight

Give them back!

Starlight

Well, now you can spend the rest of your lives here with us! And we'll teach you just how much better life can be without your cutie marks!

Starlight

Wha... What are you looking at?! They're the problem, not me!

How could you?!

You said cutie marks were evil! You said special talents led to pain and heartache!

Starlight

They do! Don't you see?! Look at them!

Sugar Belle

Then why? Why did you take ours and not give up your own?

Starlight

I... I had to, you fools! How could I collect your cutie marks without my magic?!

But the staff has all the magic we need!

Starlight

The staff is a piece of wood I found in the desert! It's MY magic that makes all this possible! You'd all still be living your miserable lives thinking you're better than everypony else if it weren't for MY magical abilities! I brought you friendship! I BROUGHT YOU EQUALITY!! I CREATED HARMONY!!!

You lied to us!!

Starlight

So what? E-Everything else I said is true! The only way to be happy is if we're all equal!

Except for you.

Twilight Sparkle

Everypony has unique talents and gifts, and when we share them with each other, that's how rea—

Starlight

QUIET!!!!!

Sugar Belle

You can't have a cutie mark, Starlight! Either we're all equal, or none of us are!

Starlight

Wh– I studied that spell for years! How can you—

Twilight

I studied magic for years too! But what I didn't know then was that studying could only take me so far. Each of my friends has taught me something different about myself. It was their unique gifts and passions and personalities that helped bring out the magic inside of me. I never would have learned that I represent the element of magic without these five, and I certainly wouldn't be here to stop you now!

Starlight

Spare me your sentimental nonsense! I gave these ponies real friendships they never could've had otherwise!

How do you know that?! You never even gave us a chance!

Rainbow Dash

She's getting away!

We'll never find her in there!

Twilight

We just have to hope that when she's had a chance to think it over, she realizes that you all have taught her something.

Starlight Glimmer

I stayed here and never made another friend, because I was too afraid another cutie mark would take them away too!

Twilight Sparkle

That's ridiculous! A cutie mark can't take your friends away!

Starlight Glimmer

Not everypony's lucky enough to get her cutie mark at the same time as her friends!

Starlight Glimmer

You don't know what it's like to lose a friend because of a cutie mark. But once I stop the rainboom, you will! [snatches the time travel scroll with her magic] And when I destroy this scroll, there'll be no way for you to change it! [starts to slowly rip it in two, to Twilight and Spike's horror]

Twilight Sparkle

Starlight, you're right! I don't know what you went through! But I do know you can't do this! I've seen where this leads, and so have you!

Starlight Glimmer

I only saw what you showed me! Who knows what'll really happen?

Twilight Sparkle

I've seen it a dozen times! Things don't turn out well in Equestria without my friends.

Starlight Glimmer

Ugh! What's so special about your friends?! [rips the scroll even further] How can a group of ponies that are so different be so important?!

Twilight Sparkle

The differences between me and my friends are the very things that make our friendship strong!

Starlight Glimmer

[starting to tear up] I thought Sunburst and I were the same... but we turned out different, and it TORE OUR FRIENDSHIP APART! [rips the scroll close to breaking point]

Twilight Sparkle

[flying up] So try again! Make new friends! And if something that you can't control happens that changes things, work through it together. That's what friendship is! And it's not just my friendships that are important to Equestria - everypony's are! When yours ended, it led us here. But just imagine all the others that are out there waiting for you if you just give them a chance!

Starlight Glimmer

[still crying] How do I know they won't all end the same way?

Twilight Sparkle

I guess it's up to you to make sure they don't.

Starlight

I know there's no excuse for what I did, but I want you all to know that I'm ready for whatever punishment you think is fair.

Twilight

I've been thinking a lot about how badly Equestria fared without just one group of friends. Because even when one friendship dies, the results can be disastrous.

Starlight

I know first-hoof how true that can be.

Twilight

And that's why I've asked you here. If you're willing to learn, I'm willing to teach you what I know. You'll have the power to make Equestria an even better place.

Starlight

How do I start?

Twilight

Starting is easy. All you have to do is make a friend...and you've got seven of them right here.

Big Mac

Ee-yup-yup-yup-yup-y-y-y-you did something! Woah! What's happening? I feel really weird! I'm talking so much! And I'm so articulate, enunciating with such precise pronunciation! [Covers his mouth with his hoof] Annie Apple awoke and accidentally ate an Auburn Azalea! [Screams and runs off in fright] Make it stop!

Starlight

I can't be friends with somepony who doesn't talk.

Starlight

And I guess my first instinct shouldn't be to magically command ponies to act the way I want them to?

Starlight

Alright, I'll change him back!

Starlight

You know each other?

Twilight

You could say that.

Trixie

We've had our differences. What matters is Twilight gave me a second chance, and I appreciate it. [pause]

Twilight

So, um, what brings you to Ponyville?

Trixie

The Grrrreat and Powerful Trrrrixie has come to perform a new stage show of grand illusion! I am calling it "The Humble and Penitent Trixie's Equestrian Apology Tour"!

Starlight

That's kind of a mouthful.

Trixie

It's a working title.