Habitat: Almost anywhere, although they do tend to prefer somewhere with a really good view, preferably really high up so that there is little or no interference with the radio signals from the homing device they've had secretly implanted in your lower wisdom tooth by a "bent" dentist.
— Coping With Parents, Peter Corey
"You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure."
— Michael Medved, on the Knight Templar Parent's motivation for being a Moral Guardian. Whether or not this is justified, however...
"Angel, honey, please don't do this! Do you know what I've sacrificed? Every bandit I've killed, all the people I've manipulated, all of it was to protect you!"
— Handsome Jack, Borderlands 2
"Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead. Every living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead...Now, no one will come to avenge your defeat. No one will lament your passing. Think about the fate you have brought upon your family as you suffer in the afterlife. This - and no less - is the price of threatening my family.
Alex: You put my boyfriend in a cage and then you locked him in a room and tried to brainwash him!
Ben: I didn't want him to get you pregnant. I suppose I may have overreacted...
Ben: I didn't want him to get you pregnant. I suppose I may have overreacted...
— Lost
Tommy: They got a kid, Joel!
Joel: So do we!
Joel: So do we!
Franklin Birch: No, no, wait! What if you're wrong? What if you only heard what you wanted to hear? What if...what if... Man, I want my daughter back as much as you do, but this isn't right!
Keller Dover: Franklin! Franklin! We hurt him until he talks or they're gonna die.
Keller Dover: Franklin! Franklin! We hurt him until he talks or they're gonna die.
"Listen well, Lucrezia — sanctuary or no — I will burn this fortress and every soul in it before I allow you or anyone else to harm my son."
"My child is lost, cold and alone out there in the world. If I must burn the lands to find him, then I will do so!"
—Queen Vader Eloha, Sincere Deceit
