Quotes
"What about our focus? What happened to banding together to save the world?"
A long page of quotes. I tried to cut out as much fluff as I could, but Lightning just says a lot of amusing things. There are three sections: (1) Battle/Field Quotes, (2) One Liners & Monologues, and (3) Conversations.
Battle/Field Quotes
- Follow my lead!/Turn the tide!/Let's wrap this up!/Time to switch it up! (Paradigm Shift)
- A target's a target / Nothing personal / Easy (Defeating enemy)
- Be ready for the next fight! (End of battle)
- Time to end it! / I'm no one's slave! (Army of One)
- We do this together! Let's Ride! (Summon)
- Lend me your blade! We'll carve out a new fate! (Summon)
- Odin...Cut us a Path! (Summon)
- The storm is here! (Summon)
- And so it ends... / Just like that... (Defeated)
One Liners & Monologues
- Better to die than get sent to Pulse. It's hell without the brimstone.
- Sanctum logic. They conjured up the Purge to eliminate a threat. I mean-why carry the danger all the way to Pulse? Why not just stamp it out here? Execution masquerading as exile. That's all the Purge ever was.
- Enough! The whole world's out to get us. I can barely keep myself alive, let alone some helpless kid! I don't have time to baby you. You want to get tough? Do it on your own!
- PSICOM's keeping it all under wraps .They don't want their failure publicized. Better they lose us then their pride.
- Don't touch anything. Control your emotions. If you want to survive, you forget about sympathy. How can I explain? Think of it like a strategy. Focus on your ultimate goal and shut out everything else. Still your mind. Move on instinct. Let doubt take over, and despair will cripple you.
- Hungry people make for angry people.
- I was just like you. My parents died. I have to be strong for Serah, so I thought I needed to forget my past. And I became Lightning. I thought by changing my name, I could change who I was. I was just a kid. Lightning. It flashes bright, then fades away.It can't protect. It only destroys. Serah tried to tell me, but I wouldn't listen.I threatened her. The only one who believed her ws Snow.
- Fighting without hope is no way to live. It's just a way to die. I want you to find the hope you were named for. Staying alive, I can help you with. But I can't--I can't give you hope If you got see your father...
- These Cocoon people' have spent centuries under fal'Cie, in constant fear of a Pulse invasion. If it weren't for Serah, I'd have been out there too. Hunting l'Cie. Would have been nothing but targets to me.
- Off to hell we go.
- It's the Vile Peaks all over again
- There's no going back.
- This is it. A lot of dreams died to get us here, and we can't let it be for nothing.
Conversations
Hope: You're telling me that you got on that train so you can save your sister? That's crazy. I could never do something like that.
Lightning: It not a question of can or can't. There are some things in life you just do.
Hope: Easy for someone like you to say.
Sazh: You like to keep it simple, don't you?
Lightning: I stick to my goal
Hope: As long as you have a goal, you can fight?
Lightning: You can stay alive.
Lightning: Not really. We've relied on them our our lives. The food we eat, the light and water, it's all from the fal'Cie. You know, I think Cocoon was really built for them. The rest of us, we're just leeches. Parasites.
Hope: You think? They protect us, nurture us. They take care of, well, normal people. They treat us like we're special, almost like...Like we're pets!
Lightning: Like pets. To them, we are just pets. That's it. Now it makes sense. I've been so blind. I was born into a Fal'Cie world, raised on a Fal'Cie leash. It was the only life I know how to live. When it was taken from me, I was completely lost. Without a master to follow - my life had no purpose. Hope, listen to me. This l'Cie curse, it took everything. My future. My dreams. I didn't want to think. So I fought instead. As long as I was fighting, nothing else was real I was running away. And you, Hope..You got swept along with me.
Lightning: You apologized so you'd feel better?
Fang: Guess so. How about you? Feel any better now now that you hit me?
Lightning: It didn't change anything.
Fang: Tell that to my jaw.
Lighting: It was too much. What happened to Serah All I could think about was, 'What could I have done?' I hated myself for not trusting her. It hurt too much. I couldn't face it. Look, Snow. I...I'm sorry. Forgive me.
Snow: For what?
Lighting: Everything.
Snow: If you told me your real name, I suppose I could
Lighting: Have Serah tell you--when she comes back.
Fang: So, Light...How you figure this makes us lucky?
Lightning: Because when we kill, we're a step closer to Vanille. How's that?
Fang: Well, when you put that way!
Fang: Why are you protecting me? What are you doing?
Lightning: Protecting one of our own. We can do without their brand of mercy. And we don't need a fal'Cie orders, either. I'm fighting this Focus to the end. We all are. So please...Fight with us.
Lightning: You are getting married, aren't you. Don't let her down, you hear me?
Snow: Don't worry. This tear will be her last. I'll make sure of that.
Lightning: That's all I need to know.
Snow: We will see her, right?
Lightning: Don't do that. No room for doubt.
Snow: You're right.
Lightning: We'll see her again and soon. You convinced me of that. So stay strong.
Snow: Don't worry. We'll finished this, and go see her together.
Sazh: Gone just like that. For a big hunk of rock, that thing can move!
Fang: Guess they're just doing what they can too. Thrying to 'save the world.'
Lightning: Yeah, well, it's not all on them. Last time I checked, we are still in this fight.
Soldier: Die!
Lightning: You first!
Vanille: If only we could fly!
Lightning: We can jump.
Snow: Good to know. So, what's the plan?
Lighting: Your usual plan. Charge in through the front door, what else?
Sazh: I hope that's our backup.
Lighting: Well if it is, I don't think our backup is happy to see us.
Orphan: You overreach yourselves.
Lighting: No. We overreach you.
Orphan: Is that so?
Lighting: You don't believe in anything. You gave up on life before you were even born. Sat poisoning Cocoon from the inside, waiting for someone to come and destroy you. Sure, you think the end of the world is salvation. All you care about is death's release. So take it, and leave the rest of us alone. We don't think like that. When we think ther's no hope left, we keep looking until we find some. Maybe Cocoon is past saving, but it's our home. And we'll protect it or die trying! We live to make the impossible possible! That is our Focus!
Lighting: They did it, they saved the world.
Snow: No, they gave us a new one.