CLAMP Quotes

Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.

If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.

... and once again ... we will head toward that time.

Be selfish, be unreasonable, and don't worry about it. We're girls, so we are allowed. Being a girl is a privilege, and we should take full advantage of that fact. We have the right and the duty to act as we please. But a boy who makes a girl cry is worthless and he brings shame into the romance and makes it untrue.

Good guys are either taken or gay

Time, since that day has remained still. And I've dreamt of you and the sky, since that day...

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Ruri: Is it possible that Shuichiro gets more cuddly every day?
Hari: Indubitably ...

You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?

Why do I keep thinking of her alluva sudden?! Especially when the only time my face gets red and my heart starts puonding ... is when I see him! -Syaoran Li

One becomes very strong when one abandons all one's doubts.

Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.

Hey, if you're going to sleep in the middle of the road, I'm going to sit on you.

Yuuko, speaking to Fai: To all the young ones in your group, you are no longer someone who passes through their lives and is forgotten. You have become someone very important to them. Your hardships are their hardships too.

The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!

Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

People are the world's strangest creature.

Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

No matter how close your blood relationship is…no matter what your relationship may be…anyone other you is not you! And so you have to think it over and decide for yourself! Take away other people's wants and needs and decide if this is something necessary for you! It may cause hardship to others…but you want it. That's your free will right there! But you ignore that and decide based on someone else's advice, because decency demands it, because people say it's awful, you will fail to quit. No one could succeed that way! You don't understand what you're trying to do. With that as your background, how do you expect to make a promise to yourself?

Fai: But ... Don't you think they've changed? At the start of our travels, Syaoran-kun never smiled at all. Like he was suffering. And maybe it was because Sakura lost all of her memories but she always seemed so unsure of herself. And Kuro-run, you were always angry. And now you're exactly the same.
Kurogane: Huh?
Fai: But ... During our travels, there are a lot of painful spots, but there are also fun times. And when I see those two giving it their all and smiling ... I can't help but think they've changed.
Kurogane: If you think that, then you've changed too.

Even if we are different from each other, as long as I can be with her and create happiness for two people with her, then that's enough for me.

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.

Did that high-and-mighty attitude of yours come attached to you when you were spawned?!
Was it a bug your programmer couldn't fix?!

I do not lie to you, Watanuki.

Because you are a very important person to me.

Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.
I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.

If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?

A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with." "A price, once paid, cannot be returned.

Just because you're sad or weak doesn't give you the right to hurt others. But no matter how hard you try, as long as you're alive, you'll have to inconvenience someone. Maybe the act of living has nothing to do with dreams or ideals. Perhaps it's more a matter of how much trouble you cause for others ... and how you redeem yourself.

My heart is only thinking of one person. Being able to make that person smile makes me very happy. Staying by that person's side makes me very happy. {...} If that person is happy, I will also be happy. He is different from others. He is special.

The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel ... declares the beginning of everything

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

Maybe all people who do bad things…are just really lonely.

Do you think someone someone who'd sacrifice himself so easily, is worth as the same as the life someone so precious?
In other words, you consider her an absolute fool who would try to protect a worthless trash as yourself.

Kurogane: That's what you want, isn't it? Underneath that constant grin, you're keeping everyone away. So that nobody gets involved with you. But look. Just now you checked to see if the kid had a fever, and you're relieved that the princess doesn't see the wretched condition of this world. And in the last country, you used your magic.
Fai: *smiling* I said it, didn't I? I wasn't going to die. And so ...
Kurogane: Yeah, but that was all about you not dying on your own account. Dying for somebody else ... That's a whole new question. Back then, if you hadn't done anything, we would have been captured, and if we handled it wrong, we might have died. But you decided to use magic on your own. You involved yourself in their lives.
Fai: *no longer smiling, looks depressed* I ... I don't want to make anyone unhappy because of their involvement with me.

Kurogane: For all my life ... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

No matter how painful it might be ... I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry.
~Kurogane-san

But there's one thing you must remember. Whether you want it or not, once you have created bonds between you and other people, those bonds will never disappear.

But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

To change yourself means to change the future.

Nothing is more painful than to wander in the world without the one you love.

Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your "body", and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.

But it is a very difficult thing to change the future.
The slightest turn of phrase ... action and the human soul.
The future changes direction based on those things.

Even from just a little thing, it's still possible to die.

You starving street waif! No, you're too old to be a waif! You starving high-school-aged waif!

The power of your will is everything.

TO EAT IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND VERY PLEASUREABLE THING, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE VERY FRIGHTENING

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Girls are always at their best smiling.

Until we can be together again ... we wait ... and believe!

You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!

If we can all find that special person... then the world will be a most joyous place.

However, there is something stronger than an unaccomplished future someone saw in a dream and that is a wish of a human heart.

You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so ... you must protect what you must protect.

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.

If I can protect, I want to protect.

If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.

Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.

Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!

To get mad at being called a "little boy" is a proof that you indeed are one

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide ... to those who understand.
This world isn't the only one.

I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!

If you don't want her to go, you should say it. Those jerks who can't say a word no matter how much time passes ... I just don't get them. If they're doing whatever the hell they want ... then you should do what you want too. I hate those jerks who fool themselves into thinking that just because they clam up, nobody knows what's going on with them!!

It's tough when anyone is hurt, it's painful and awful.

You can't deceive me with a dream.

Mokona: Please! Fai is about to die! Yûko!
Fai: Y... You... can't... While I'm still ailve... Syaoran-kun's magic still lives. Even half of that power is too much... Nothing... will be able to stop him.
Mokona: Fai!!
Kurogane: *punches hole in wall* Who told you to make that decision now?!
Mokona: No! Kurogane!! *Kurogane grabs Fai by the collar*
Fai: Sorry... *Fai collapses*
Kurogane: Witch... Is there any way to keep him from dying?
Yûko: Yes, there is.

You'll stay here with me?" "Yeah" "If I fall asleep like this ... the first thing i'll see when I wake up ... will be you.

This city will have no unhappy people. It's the special city that has the someone just for me.