"I'm as normal as they come and this is a…" — Maes Hughes Quote

"The great flow that maintains the universe, call it the cycle of life, the course of nature each one of us is just a small part of that part. One in the all. Yet without all the individual ones, the all can't exist. This world flows by following grander laws that we can't even imagine. To recognize that flow, to work in it. To decompose, and recreate, that is alchemy."

— Edward Elric · Fullmetal Alchemist

"Memories... of the people we were. They're subtle, but they're real. It took me a lot of time to understand what I saw. Books say we shouldn't have memories. Or at least that they're only the memories and emotions of the alchemists who made us. But they are wrong. Those memories are mine."

— Lust · Fullmetal Alchemist

"*referring to Alphonse* This pain's nothing...compared to what he's given up..."

— Edward Elric · Fullmetal Alchemist

"[To Father] You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?"

— Van Hohenheim · Fullmetal Alchemist

"I never feel more human than when I'm fighting real monsters."

— Roy Mustang · Fullmetal Alchemist

"Wrong, holy man. All we want is to get our bodies normal again. See, we don't lie about what's possible. We didn't start a cult."

— Edward Elric · Fullmetal Alchemist