Avatar: The Last Airbender quotes

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Actor Sokka: Why did you have to steal that waterbending scroll?
Actor Katara: (crying hysterically) It just gave me so much hope!
Real Katara: (Sticks her tongue out in disgust)

Aunt Wu: Care to hear your fortune, handsome?
Iroh: At my age there is really only one big surprise left, and I'd just as soon leave it a mystery.

Aunt Wu: Your destiny...this is incredible! You will be involved in a great battle! An awesome conflict between the forces of good and evil! A battle whose outcome will determine the fate of the whole world!
Aang: Yeah, yeah, I knew that already. But did it say anything about a girl?

Avatar Kuruk: I lost the woman I loved, to Koh, the face stealer. It was my fault. If I had been more attentive and more active, I could have saved her. Aang, you must actively shape your own destiny and the destiny of the world.

Avatar Kyoshi: In my day, Chin the Conqueror threatened to throw the world out of balance. I stopped him, and the world entered a great era of peace.
Aang: But you didn't really kill Chin; technically, he fell to his own doom because he was too stubborn to get out of the way.
Avatar Kyoshi: Personally, I don't really see the difference, but I assure you, I would have done whatever it took to stop Chin. I offer you this wisdom, Aang, only justice will bring peace.
Aang: I knew I shouldn't have asked Kyoshi.

Avatar Roku: If I had been more decisive, and acted sooner, I could have stopped Sozin, and stopped the war before it started. I offer you this wisdom, Aang, you must be decisive.

Avatar Yangchen: Here is my wisdom for you: selfless duty calls for you to sacrifice your own spiritual needs, and do whatever it takes to protect the world.
Aang: (to Momo, after Yangchen disappears) I guess I don't have a choice, Momo. I have to kill the Fire Lord.

Azula: I hear you've been to see Uncle Fatso in the prison tower.
Zuko: That guard told you, didn't he?
Azula: No, you did. Just now.

Azula: (laughs maniacally) I'd really rather have our family physician look after little Zuzu if you don't mind.

Azula: (to Aang) Do you really want to fight me?
(Zuko jumps in, with a fighting stance)
Zuko: (to Azula) Yes, I really do.
Aang: Zuko!
Azula: I was wondering when you would show up, Zuzu.
Aang: "Zuzu"? (stifles a laugh)

Azula: (To Aang, Sokka and Toph) Oh, looks like the firebending's back on.

Azula: All right hair, it's time to face your doom. (she cuts her bangs and smiles crazily at her reflection. Her face falls at the sight of her mother in the mirror.)
Ursa: What a shame. You always had such beautiful hair.
Azula: What are you doing here?
Ursa: I didn't want to miss my own daughter's coronation.
Azula: Don't pretend to act proud. I know what you really think of me. You think I'm a monster.
Ursa: I think you're confused. All your life, you've used fear to control people, like your friends Mai and Ty Lee.
Azula: But what choice do I have?! Trust is for fools! Fear is the only reliable way! [more quietly] Even you fear me.
Ursa: No. I love you, Azula. I do.
(Azula's lower lip trembles as tears begin to run down her face. She yells, throwing her hairbrush at the mirror and shatters it. Azula then falls to the floor and cries, clearly alone, and hallucinating.)

Azula: Do the tides command this ship?
Fire Navy Ship Captain: I'm afraid I don't understand.
Azula: You said the tides would not allow us to bring the ship in. Do the tides command this ship?
Fire Navy Ship Captain: No, Princess.
Azula: And if I were to have you thrown overboard, would the tides think twice about smashing you against the rocky shore?
Fire Navy Ship Captain: No, Princess.
Azula: Well then, maybe you should worry less about the tides, who've already made up their mind about killing you, and worry more about me, who's still mulling it over.

Azula: Hey, beach bums, we're going next. [To Ty Lee] Ty Lee, get over here now!
(Ty Lee, goes over to on two hands, revealing her red underwear.)

Azula: I never expected this from you. The thing I don't understand is why? Why would you do it? You know the consequences.
Mai: I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do. You miscalculated. I love Zuko more than I fear you.
Azula: (yelling) No, YOU miscalculated! You should have feared me more! (She and Mai prepare to fight, but Ty Lee suddenly attacks Azula. She gasps and falls down, paralyzed.)
Ty Lee: (runs to Mai) Come on, let's get out of here!
(They attempt to leave, but the guards surround and arrest them. Two guards pick Azula up)
Azula: (growling) You're both fools!
Guard: What shall we do with them, Princess?
Azula: Put them somewhere I'll never have to see their faces again. And let them rot!