Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Tell me, Little Bao, have you ever gotten close to woman?'
'Well. . . '
'Close enough to smell her?'
'No.'
'Ah! Even when they stink they smell like heaven! Women are something else? They're. . . they're magic!

Earthbenders! You don't know me, but I know of you. Every child in my Water Tribe Village was rocked to sleep with stories of the brave Earth Kingdom, and the courageous Earthbenders who guard its borders. Some of you may think that the Fire Nation has made you powerless. Yes, they have taken away your ability to bend. But they can't take away your courage. And it is your courage they should truly fear. Because it runs deeper than any mine you've been forced to dig, any ocean that keeps you far from home. It is the strength of your hearts that make you who you are. Hearts that will remain unbroken when all rocks and stone have eroded away. The time to fight back is now! I can tell you that the Avatar has returned! So remember your courage, let us fight for our freedom!

Don't you think you're trying a little too hard to hold on to the past?

Maybe, but don't you think you're trying a little too hard to run away from it?

Not everybody's past is like yours, Aang. Some of us have to run away just to... just to live.

I am the Mother of Faces. Through me, separateness came into the world. Through me, cam identity. The one became the many.

So you know that the RIGHT kind of love ... the kind that's REAL, that SACRIFICES ... that kind of love doesn't BLIND you. It actually helps you SEE.

And that was it. That's how I died. Unable to protect anyone.

"So you only want to go
all in
if you're guaranteed a
win
?"
"Well . . .
yeah.
Is that wrong?
"It's not wrong, honey. It's just
stupid.

Ozai: What I'm saying is this — There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because

After all, though our yesterdays may be different, we all share the same tomorrow.