The Best See Quotes

Wren: Our government isn't superstitious, but they're practical. There are laws in the strands going back centuries. Vision destroyed the world once. And they will not allow it to happen again.

Baba: You know, the day you and your sister were born, Witchfinders attacked our village. Many died, and we fled. Your first night was spent in a forest, and I stood guard that cold night. And every rush of wind through the trees sounded like the breath of a Witchfinder. I had been a father for less than a day, and I already thought that I had failed you, that I could not protect my children. That fear never goes away. But I have learned to embrace it. It is what makes us a father.
Kofun: I don't know that I'm supposed to be a father. Not like this.
Baba: Oh, son. You will find a way, as all fathers do.
Kofun: How?
Baba: There is no great secret. You'll be scared... often. That's part of it. Fatherhood is a different kind of battle, one that you wage with your heart. And you, Kofun, you have the strongest heart of any man I've ever met. Now take him. Your battle begins today, son.

Lord: We have a peace to pretend to negotiate in the morning.

Edo: [to Wren] Sometimes, in order to best serve the republic, you must work around its government.

Baba: He's a jackass, but he's right. I don't want to be the reason for your failure.

Toad: I don't want you near my men. They're hungry and tired, and they're not fond of witches under the best of circumstances. Come on.
Kofun: How many witches have you talked to before?
Toad: None before you.
Kofun: If I'm the first, how do you know we're something to be feared?
Toad: People like you destroyed the old world with your machines and your poisons. Your kind were responsible for the deaths of millions.
Kofun: And you for the death of thousands. You wiped the Alkenny... my tribe, off the face of the earth.
Toad: They knew the price for harboring witches. It was the law of the kingdom.
Kofun: You killed children. Babies.
Toad: I wasn't there.
Kofun: And what would you have done if you were?
[pause for reply from Toad, but he doesn't reply]
Kofun: I'm the witch. Who's murdered more people? You or me?

Charlotte: It's actually not as uncommon as you think. I grew up in the foothills of the Cleves, and there was more than one grandmother who was also her grandchild's aunt. In this case, the mother is also the aunt, which I admit is a bit complicated. As the father is the mother's nephew, which would make Kofun and his son cousins. No, wait. I think. Yes, that's right. And that makes you the baby's aunt and cousin as well.

Haniwa: Why didn't you kill Edo when you had the chance?
Baba: Killing a brother would be like killing a part of yourself.
Haniwa: Like killing your own father?
Baba: Mmm.
[sighs]
Baba: My father ordered me to kill Edo. And I made a choice.
Haniwa: If you were protecting Edo, then why does he hate you so much?
Baba: [sighs] Family can be complicated.
Haniwa: Well... I was just kidnapped by my uncle and found out that my mom is a princess. I think I know something about complicated families.

Ambassador: If I leave without Sibeth, then war is inevitable.
Lord: Not if you expose a rogue faction. Prevent a civil war. You'll be hailed as a hero.
Ambassador: Or buried as one.

Ambassador: Well, kill me or kiss me, but for fuck's sake, do something already.

Tamacti: Dorian the Elder once said... "The most unsettling sound in the human experience is silence... when nature begs for wailing." Silence in a birth, silence in a moment of devastating heartbreak. Silence during the infliction of such extreme pain.

Toad: [to Kafun] Movement is a language. Dance, combat, fucking. It's all just bodies talking to each other. Now, I'm trying to teach you to listen, but you just keep swatting at my sword.

Queen: I haven't felt freedom like that in such a long time.
Kofun: Really? You're the queen.
Queen: Don't mistake power for freedom.

Maghra: This Tormada, he will just make more
[bombs]
Maghra: .
Wren: He can't, without the children. The process of refining the coal requires sight. He needs them to make the weapons.
Kofun: And you wonder why they fear us.

Lord: We negotiate the peace tonight, and then we pretend to do it again at the table in the morning.

Haniwa: [reciting poem from the book to Kofun] Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed... and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?