Quotes / Bookends

"One Rodrigo lost Spain, but another Rodrigo will save it."

—Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a.k.a. El Cid

"Repeating earlier narration only this time with new understanding or irony cliché."

— Jeremy Scott, CinemaSins

"I killed Dimitri, it's over. He was on the Platypus, the boat I arrived in Liberty City on. So it seems it ends where it began."

— Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV, Revenge ending

"Well, the truth is... I am Iron Man."

— Tony Stark, Iron Man

"And I. Am... Iron Man."

— Tony Stark, Avengers: Endgame

"But a good rule of thumb, as any film screenplay writer will testify, seems to be to make the two scenes which open and close the story "book-ends" for each other: in some way symmetrical and matching."

— Graham Nelson, "The Craft of the Adventure"

"We started this episode at the Fortress of Solitude— and that's where we end it!"

— Narrator, The Great Phantom Peril

"Then this month, at age 105, her life ended the way it began: in a pandemic."

— Associated Press, on the passing of 105-year-old Primetta Giacopini

John Ward: (in the intro of Chapter I) "I have to finish what I started."
Amy Martin: (in the Golden Ending of Chapter III) "It's time to finish what you started."

— FAITH: The Unholy Trinity

"When a story is about to end, we'll always think of its beginning."

— Kiana Kaslana, Honkai Impact 3rd, "Graduation Trip"

"So please have a look...at my... transformation!"

—Yusuke Godai before transforming into Kuuga Mighty Form against Xu-Goma-Gu, Kamen Rider Kuuga, "Transformation"

"Please watch me. This is my transformation."

—Yusuke Godai to Kaoru Ichijo before transforming into Kuuga Ultimate Form against N-Daguva-Zeba, Kamen Rider Kuuga, "Kuuga"

(in the Prologue) "This is the story of a hopeful boy and a hopeless girl."
(in the Epilogue) "...And that was it. That was the story of me, the hopeful boy, and her, the hopeless girl."

— Daisuke Hiyori, Danganronpa: Paradise Lost

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