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[Tara enters her room, stops when she sees her dad standing there disapprovingly]
Mr. Maclay: The door wasn't locked. I was a little early. I suppose you... wanted me to see all these... toys. You don't even try to hide it any more. I'd hoped maybe you'd gotten over the whole thing. That if we let you go, you'd... get it out of your system. Then they told me to look for you in... [disgusted] that store.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Family"note 

"Is that healthy, to be so... attached to him?" Charlie asked. He'd been caught up on the fine details of vampire psychology over the previous week, but still asked questions like that sometimes. I half expected him to ask if I'd ever tried to stop being a vampire.

"And who are you to decide that how the Maker created me isn't 'normal'?"
Anders (a bisexual, bipolar man referring to his magic powers), Dragon Age II

"They wish to 'cure' us... but I say we are the cure!"

Tenth Doctor: It's not easy, just — just looking at you, Jack, 'cause you're wrong.
Captain Jack Harkness: Thanks.
Doctor: You are, I can't help it. I'm a Time Lord, it's instinct. It's in my guts. You're a fixed point in time and space, you're a fact. That's never meant to happen. Even the TARDIS reacted against you, tried to shake you off. Flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you.
Jack: So what you're saying is, you're, uh — prejudiced?
Doctor: ...I never thought of it like that.
Jack: [chuckles] Shame on you.

"I wonder if he'd still have the hots for you if he saw you eating caterpillars and beetles or hiding in your little larval nest when all the mutant hysteria was going on a while back? Do you think they'd all find you so special and pretty if they were waking up every six weeks to find eggs in their beds? Because that's what I've to live with, Jan! And your personal hygiene makes me sick to my stomach sometimes."
Henry Pym (to Janet Van Dyne), The Ultimates

Razputin: How do you feel about dad being psychic?
Donatella: Every family has its secrets. The trick is to hide your shame away, where no one can see it.

Nightcrawler: They say you can imitate anybody — even their voice.
Mystique: [mimicking Nightcrawler] Even their voice.
Nightcrawler: Then why not stay in disguise all the time, you know? Look like everyone else?
Mystique: Because we shouldn't have to.

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