"This twisted spritual pressure... that w…" — Kuchiki Byakuya Quote

"I'm going to keep getting closer and closer to you. And not just day after day, oh no. It's going to happen much faster than that! See I'm already closer to you than I was a moment ago. And I'll keep getting closer and closer to you, until I swallow you up and then, you'll disappear. Things are not turning out well for you at all, are they? (laughs) See you around."

— Hollow Ichigo · Bleach

"We - the warriors, go now to the field of battle! Believe that our blades will not shatter! Believe that our spirits will not break! Even if we walk separate paths our iron resolve shall remain united! Swear! That even if the ground beneath us crumbles... we shall return here alive again..!"

— Abarai Renji · Bleach

"It's one of the basics... So I will teach you. A shinigami at the rank of Captain can control the size of his zanpakuto got it? Otherwise everyone'd carry around ginormous swords... just like you. Remember this well. You can't fathom the power of your rival simply from the size of his zanpakuto. You shouldn't give lectures about Shinigami until you understand that."

— Kurosaki Isshin · Bleach

"You're just an overnight shinigami. You couldn't put one scratch on us real ones."

— Abarai Renji · Bleach

"[in reference to Mizuho Asano, Keigo's sister] I owe this crazy woman."

— Madarame Ikkaku · Bleach

"(To Ichigo Kurosaki) You are a fool, Ichigo Kurosaki. You willingly seek to challenge an opponent so much more powerful than you that it strikes a primal fear into your being. Incomprehensible. If this is the work of the 'heart' that you people speak of, then it is because you possess this 'heart' that you humans bring hurt upon yourself, because you possess this 'heart' that you lose your lives"

— Ulquiorra Schiffer · Bleach