• NakamuraEmi_bias@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    “I demand a favor”

    “I grant but one boon, mortal. And it will be given to you as it is given to everyone - when your time has come.”

    Gargoyles, Guy summons Anubis to bring back his son. YT Link for the amazing delivery.

    “Death is always pointless - that is the point”

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    I have no idea how you can remember so many quotes, but everything by Michael Ende is deep. I like Momo a lot, it is about time, happiness, depression, society, capitalism and a lot more.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    “If the world chooses to become my enemy… Then I will fight. Like I always have.”,

    Shadow, Sonic 06

    Ozai: (bitterly) It was to teach you respect.

    Zuko: It was cruel! And it was wrong.

    Ozai: Then you have learned nothing.

    Zuko: No, I’ve learned everything! And I had to learn it on my own.

    Avatar: the Last Airbender

    “They say suffering brings wisdom. If that is the case, then I intend to make you very wise.”

    Optimus Prime, Transformers Comics

  • flicker@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s an argument to be made that Rocko’s Modern Life was not for children, but it aired on Nickelodeon in the afternoon, so we watched it. And this is poignant as hell-

    R-E-C-Y-C-L-E Recycle!
    C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E Conserve!
    Don’t you P-O-L-L-U-T-E. Pollute the rivers, sky, or sea. Or else you’re gonna get what you deserve

    …I still sing it to myself sadly when I read the news sometimes.

    • agissilver@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Rocko fought city hall! Rocko fought corporate America! They are big and he is small, Rocko fought city hall.

      • flicker@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I also blame this for why my sense of civic duty exists, despite the obviously flawed and ofte. monstrous system I find myself in.

    • AtariDump@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Heffer: (singing) Spring cleaning! Spring cleaning!
      Rocko: Heff?
      Heffer: Hi, Rocko!
      Rocko: Why was everyone singing?
      Heffer: We just had a song in our hearts.
      Rocko: How is it you all know the words? Did you rehearse?
      Heffer: Yeah, every Thursday. Didn’t you see the flyers?

  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    "I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are

    I like you as you are Without a doubt or question Or even a suggestion Cause I like you as you are

    I like your disposition Your facial composition And with your kind permission I’ll shout it to a star

    I like you as you are I wouldn’t want to change you Or even rearrange you Not by far

    I like you I-L-I-K-E-Y-O-U I like you, yes I do I like you, Y-O-U I like you, like you as you are"

    • Mr. Rogers
    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      There’s so many good Mr. Rogers quotes. What a wholesome human. I’m sad I wasn’t around to witness the height of his cultural relevance, but the beauty of him and his teachings were their timelessness. May his work be immortalized.

      PBS had so many kind, gentle people working to remind us that there is love, kindness and hope in the world if we just take time to make room for it.

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, chapter 10 is pretty rough, particularly this stark line:

    “Slowly but surely, everybody in the house began to starve.”

    I read the book to my daughter a few years back and I’d forgotten quite how bleak things are before all the fun stuff that people remember.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      6 months ago

      Roald Dahl did not fuck around. He grew up in one of those psychopathic early-20th-century British boarding schools, and then went to Africa once he graduated, and World War 2 broke out and he fought in Egypt and Greece.

      He wrote children’s literature because kids tend to vibe with how his brain works, but he was not playing games. Read his adult short stories sometime.

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve read a couple, one about a frozen leg of lamb, I remember. He was a pretty dark character, including holding some deeply offensive views.

        Talented guy when he was focusing his work though - there was a great anthology TV series in the UK called Tales of the Unexpected, some episodes of which I think were based on his more adult writing (including the leg of lamb one).

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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          6 months ago

          Are you gonna try to tell me the oompa-loompas weren’t so much happier moving to England and working in the factory instead of being in their home

          But listen to them singing their working-songs

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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          6 months ago

          Holy hell, dude… I’m looking over the list now and just reading plot synopses is getting me unsettled.

          Honestly I think the two autobiographical books, “Boy” and “Going Solo” are probably better than the short stories unless you’re in a pretty twisted mood. If you’re in for the darker material, a random selection of short stories I liked:

          • “Mr. Feasey” is a very mild one that still has the Roald Dahl dark energy about it.
          • “Pig” is a deeply unsettling one.
          • “They Shall Not Grow Old” is haunting but quite good.
          • “Man From The South” is a fairly famous one that’s also very dark and unsettling.
        • BanjoShepard@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          I’ll add “The Great Automatic Grammatizator.” It’s my favorite by far, but I like all of the stories in “The Umbrella Man and other stories.”

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    Pretty much the entirety of the Animorphs book series, but I guess there was a reason for it. But for some kids books, holy hell.

    “See, win or lose, right or wrong, the memory of violence sits inside your head. It sits there, like some lump you can’t quite swallow. It sits there, a black hole that darkens hope, and eats away at everyday happiness like a cancer. It’s the shadow you take into your own heart and try to live with.”

    • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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      5 months ago

      I was on an animorph forum for years past the age those books were aimed at, and some of my best friends were made there. That book series shaped me a lot, and it absolutely went as hell sometimes. Marco, man, whoo… The shit Marco went through.

        • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
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          5 months ago

          I never read them when I was super young, so I’m mostly well adjusted. Haha. First time was when I was 16, got stoned at a buddy’s place and the power went out. He took a nap, and I read Visser. Lemme tell you, that’s one helluvan introduction to the series.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Man if they tried to put that in a Dark Knight comic the editor would probably want them to tone it down

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        Probably so. That’s a great little quote from the books, but the stories and descriptions and gruesome torture and trauma and death and moral delimas and specicide in those books are just crazy.

        If it wasn’t sex or rape, it was on the table.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    “Death is only the beginning” - Imhotep’s last line in The Mummy.

    A man that has been dead for a couple millenia and is about to return to death utters these ominous words. Yes, it’s probably just to leave the story open for a sequel, but the metaphysical implications are terrifying. He knows what it’s like, and he’s claiming that so much more comes after, but we’re just left with a vague notion of what it could be. What could this mean? Is there sunshine and rainbows? Eternal torture? An endless void? An infinite realm of possibilities has just opened up for us, the audience.

    But there’s no time for that shit, there’s gold and Benny’s a greedy sack of shit, the temple’s crumbling, and once they escape there’s a celebration and denoument to be had! We’ve all but forgotten that threat—or promise, as the case may be.

    One of the best ways I have ever seen writers leave the door ajar for a sequel. There’s no hand pushing up through the rubble, no sinister laugh as the screen fades to black, no “did anyone remember to check that he died for sure?” no cheesy gimmicks. Just an ominous vaguery, that may be about hinting at another installment, but still works by itself as a raw line that goes hard af.

  • 31415926535@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    The Cheshire cat, and much of Alice in wonderland, hit quite hard, but in a good way. Helped me see that insanity, mental health issues could be a good thing

  • Moghul@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” - Mewtwo

  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    “Fraggles don’t have any bosses […] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other.” - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock