Steven Universe quotes from Steven Universe

Peridot

Life and death and love and birth

Steven

Now using mi-fa-mi-mi-fa-mi-ti-la!

And peace and war on the planet Earth.

Steven

Yes, yes! That's it!

Peridot

That's so easy.

Steven

Yeah, but that's what's fun about it! You should write something, you should write a song.

Peridot

About what?

Steven

Whatever you're thinking.

Peridot

Coordinates! [popping out from the drill's cockpit] We still have the Cluster's exact coordinates in order to drill!

Pearl

There's a Diamond base that may hold that information, but getting there is going to be difficult.

Steven

How come?

Pearl

Because it's not accessible by warp pad, and it's on… [gazes up into the sky]

Steven

[gasps] The moon?!

Pearl

Yes, Steven. The moon.

Steven

[singing while floating around] ♪ I was bouncing on the moon one day… ♪ [bumps into the wall and looks up at a mural] Huh? Hey, Peridot, who is this supposed to be?

Peridot

[approaches and gasps in surprise at the mural] It's Blue Diamond! Wait. Are they all here?! Ah, yes! There she is!

Steven

Who?

Peridot

Behold, Yellow Diamond! Isn't she magnificent?

Steven

Wow! So, who are the Diamonds anyway? They seem like a big deal.

Peridot

Are you joking me? The Diamonds are the Gem matriarchs! Together, they make up the Great Diamond Authority that governs Homeworld and all the outlying colonies! We live to serve them. [Garnet clears her throat and glares down at her in annoyance; nervously chuckles] I…I mean, we were all made to serve them, even though some of us don't anymore.

Peridot

This is so incredible! Only the most elite can enter these sanctums. We are literally walking in the footsteps of the Diamonds.

Steven

They must really like stairs. [They enter an upstairs room with only a single mysterious object in the middle] Hey, what's this room?

Garnet

[continues walking] It's not what we came for.

Amethyst

Can we hurry it up? This place gives me the creeps.

Steven

[as they reach the top of the moon base] We really are on the moon.

Peridot

Ta-da! A finished Earth colony. Wow, look at this! Eighty-nine Kindergartens, sixty-seven spires, a Galaxy Warp in each facet, efficient use of all available materials. What were you thinking shutting this operation down?! It could've been great!

Garnet

No! You're wrong!

Peridot

What do you mean? It's perfect. Look at it!

Pearl

We are looking at it.

Amethyst

Yeah, this plan stinks!

Garnet

Completing this colony would have meant the extinction of all life on Earth!

Peridot

But think of the good it would've done! The Gems that would've been made, our empire expanded!

Pearl

Rose Quartz believed all life was precious and worth protecting.

Peridot

Well, if she wanted to protect it, she did a lousy job! There'd be no Cluster if the Earth had stayed a colony! Now there's no colony, and there's gonna be no Earth! So thank you, Rose Quartz, you doomed the planet!

Steven

Ohh-hoh-hoh! [nervously] Is there anything that's worth more than—

Garnet

[picks up Peridot by the tunic, sharply] You, listen to me, now. [summons gauntlet] You are talking about things that you do not understand.

Steven

Garnet! Stop, please! It's not worth it. We're done here. Let's just go home.

Peridot

What'd I say? I'm just stating a fact. The rebellion didn't really save Earth, it just delayed the inevitable.

Steven

[sighs] That's not the way they see it. They've spent thousands of years trying to protect the Earth. I thought maybe you finally understood why.

Peridot

[quickly hides the Diamond Communicator prism behind her back when she sees Steven] Oh! Steven.

Steven

Peridot, I need to talk to you.

Peridot

Uh, yeah! Sure. [They both enter the truck] Why are we in this broken down vehicle?

Steven

I wanted to ask you… [looks down at her hiding right hand, then up to her face] about the Diamonds?

Peridot

Oh! I don't know what the others have told you, but there's a reason they're in charge.

Steven

Why's that?

Peridot

They're objectively better than us. Every Gem has their strengths and weaknesses, but not them. They're absolutely totally completely flawless beings! Especially my diamond, Yellow Diamond, the most perfect, the most reasonable, rational, efficient decider ever to exist in the universe!

Steven

You're really loyal to her, aren't you?

Peridot

How could I not be? We might have our little truce, but I'll never forsake the Gem I was made for!

This is the Yellow Diamond control room.

Amethyst

Is that another Pearl?

Steven

Who is she?

Not all Pearls know each other, Steven.

Who authorized you to make this call?

Peridot

No one. But it's an emergency!

That's no excuse to use the direct Diamond communication channel!

Yellow Diamond

Pearl?

Yes, my Diamond?

Yellow Diamond

Why is there someone on the diamond line?

I don't know! I was just about to tell her that…

Yellow Diamond

I'll take it from here. [brings the screen up to her eye level, revealing herself]

Amethyst

Is that…

Yellow…

Garnet

Diamond.

Peridot

Log Date 7-1-5-2. I can't believe I just did that! I disobeyed my orders and went against Yellow Diamond's wishes! I'm a traitorous clod! I never want to think about what I've done again! [stops recording, rewinds and plays the recording; laughs madly] And I called Yellow Diamond a clod, right to her face! [falls to her knees] I called Yellow Diamond a clod, right to her face.

Steven

Uh, Peridot? Are you going to be okay?

Peridot

[enthusiastically with a deranged smile] No!

Steven

It's all going to work out. You're with us now.

Peridot

You don't understand! I'm protecting a planet I was once trying to destroy! I used to follow every order, every rule. Now I'm a traitor. [cringes] A rebel! [eyes turn to stars] A CRYSTAL GEMMMMMMMMMMMM.... [snickers]

Steven

Well, that tape recorder seems to be helping.

Peridot

NO IT'S NOT! [throws it at Garnet, who had just entered] It's a chronicle of my descent into madness!!!

Garnet

[holding out the recorder to Peridot] You dropped this.

Peridot

Get it away from me! Give it to Steven. Return madness to its source!

Peridot

[through recorder] Log Date 7-1-1-2. The Steven has given me this Earth machine to replace my communicator log. It looks… extremely primitive. [takes the recorder out of his hand] He also said he wanted me to stop calling him, "the Steven."

Steven

It's just "Steven."

Peridot

[through recorder] I said I'd call him whatever I want. [hisses at him; Steven holds up his finger in her face] He told me that was rude.

Steven

Rude.

Peridot

[through recorder] I guess I'll call him, "Steven."

On the last episode of "Camp Pining Hearts"…

I don't care that you're on the yellow team, Percy. We can make this work!

It's the color war, Paulette. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Peridot

What is this strange ritual?

Steven

Uh, that's um…

Peridot

Are they attempting fusion?

Steven

No, well, my dad told me during certain stages in your life--

Peridot

How could anyone indulge in this baseless drivel?! I'll have no part of it! [through recorder] Hour 78 of "Camp Pining Hearts." [repeating Percy's line] It's the the color war, Paulette. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Steven

Uh, you've been here for a few days. Is everything okay?

Peridot

I've just been… watching your previously recorded entertainment.

Steven

Is that the same episode from three days ago?

Peridot

There's more than one?

Steven

Hmm... nah. Oh, you made a picture. [reaches a piece of paper before Peridot snatches it]

Peridot

Picture?! This isn't just a picture, Steven! It's a complex chart cataloging the compatible characteristics between campers. Somehow, the rejects at Camp Clod fail to recognize the superior pair that is Pierre and Percy.

Steven

Well, that's 'cause Paulette likes Percy.

Peridot

Paulette? Ha! Paulette has no place in the camp's hierarchy. Now, Pierre-- Pierre is a brute! Pierre laid waste to the three-legged races! Pierre and Percy present the strongest battle formation! They'd destroy the camp!

Steven

You got all this from one episode?

Peridot

It's subtext, Steven. Allow me to explain. [cut back to recorder held by Steven] Well, first of all, Percy and Pierre are both on the yellow team, and als-

Steven

Ugh, I remember this part. [fast-forwards recorder as we see Peridot speeding through the entire session; Steven soon falls asleep with Garnet now sitting on the couch]

Peridot

[sped through] Percy is using his pogo stick to save her. Not to mention Percy is adept at aquatic sports. He would have won the canoe race if he weren't so busy drooling over Paulette, and the other part where Percy goes to the bottom of the lake to get Paulette's friendship bracelet proves that he has the largest lung capacity in the entire camp! And Pierre is a force to be reckoned with on land, when he hung Bunk Seven's underwear in the tree, the whole- [fast-forwarding stops] And that's why Percy and Pierre are objectively the best for each other! [Steven slumps down the floor; Garnet gives a thumbs up; tears up her complex chart, angrily] GRAHHH!!!

Peridot

Didn't you feel that?!

Amethyst

Feel what?

Peridot

The ground shook! This could be the start of the emergence of the Cluster! Stage 1: Slight tremors every quarter hour. Stage 2: Full-scale earthquakes. Stage 3:… [flips the board that shows a drawn picture of the Earth being destroyed with words reading, "CLUSTER EMERGES / BYE BYE EARTH"] THE EARTH IS DESTROYED! We're running out of time! We need to drill, right now!

Steven

No, it's Malachite!

Malachite?!

Peridot

What?

Steven

I was on Mask Island. I was in a Watermelon Steven. They have a lovely community, but Malachite, she was there!

Garnet

Lapis Lazuli is losing control. Soon, Jasper will overpower her and Malachite will be loose.

Pearl

Who knows what sort of destruction an unstable fusion like Malachite could cause?

Peridot

[sitting on mattress with Steven] So, Lazuli has Jasper trapped in a fusion? You're joking me.

Steven

It's true! But Lapis must be getting tired from fighting Jasper for so long.

Peridot

Just being on a ship with Jasper made me tired. [the ground starts trembling, Steven shouts]

Steven

Ahh! I gotta help them! But they told me it was too dangerous.

Peridot

Why don't you just disobey them? They rebel. Isn't that like, your guys's thing?

Steven

Ah! You're right! Oh, I know! I'll fall asleep and go into a Watermelon Steven again! This way, I can help them and be safe at the same time. [chuckles sinisterly, falls asleep]

Peridot

Wow. You are a real anarchist.

Steven

No one can tell me what to do. [snores]

Peridot

Wait! What do I do now? Don't just leave me here! [sighs deeply]

Peridot

[being shaken next to drill] If you're done just lying there, maybe it's about time that we STOP THE WORLD FROM ENDING! Where are the others?!

Steven

They're stuck on Mask Island! We have to drill without them!

Peridot

Ugh! Am I the only one who understands the meaning of teamwork?! [Steven comes up, and she grips his shoulders] Okay. Steven, are you ready to drill down into the planet, to depths never before reached by your species, to stop the Cluster before it forms and save your world?!

Steven

I don't know!

Peridot

Don't say that! Say we'll do it together and it's gonna be great!

Steven

We're gonna do it together and it's gonna be great!

Peridot

Liar!

Peridot

Ready or not, we have a mission.

Steven

All right, bracing for impact!

Peridot

It's actually two more hours to the Cluster.

Steven

Oh. Wish I'd brought some tunes.

Steven

Uh, thanks. [short silence; starts to look nervous] It's kinda... freaky down here, huh?

Peridot

Why's that?

Steven

It's just dark, and cramped, [shuddering] and, uh... I can't even... uh, stretch out. [they are both disturbed by a brief rumbling] How'd you think you were gonna get everyone in here anyway?

Peridot

I don't know. They'd... shrink or something.

Peridot

[terrified] It's too late! It's taking form! Steven, I'm sorry I couldn't save you, or the billions of other lifeforms who matter far, far less to me! Do you have any last words?!

Steven

[hugging her] I love you, Peridot.

Peridot

[emotionally] Wow... thanks. [hugs him back] It's still struggling to take its form! This means we still have time! There's still a chance!