Quotes

Notable Quotes from the Games, the Comics, the Movies and the Novels:

Games

Tomb Raider

• Larson: What's a man got to do to get that kinda attention from ya?
• Lara: It's hard to say, exactly, but you seem to be doing fine.
• Larson: Well, great.Though, truth is, it ain't me that wants ya.
• Lara: No?
• Larson: No. Miss Jacqueline Natla does, from Natla Technologies.You know, creator of all things bright and beautiful [he laughs]

[Natla appears on the screen of a laptop]

• Natla: Seal it, Larson.
• Larson: Ma'am...

[the screen shows money falling down]

• Natla: Feast your eyes on this, Lara. How does that make your wallet rumble?
• Lara: I'm sorry. I only play for sport.
• Natla: Then you'll like a big park- Peru. Vast mountain ranges to cover. Sheer walls of ice, rocky crag, savage winds. And there's this little trinket – an age old artefact of mystical powers buried in the unfound tomb of Qualopec. That's my interest. You could leave tomorrow. Are you busy tomorrow?

• Lara: Oh, Pierre. You litterbug.

• Larson: You and that drivelling piece of the Scion. You want to keep it so bad, I'll harness it right up yer...
• Lara: Wait. We're talking about the artefact here?
• Larson: Damn straight, we are. Right up...
• Lara: Hold on. I'm sorry. This piece you say...where's the rest?

• Natla: Evolution's in a rut. Natural selection in an all time low. Shipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again…will strengthen and advance us. Even create new breeds.
• Lara: A kind of evolution on steroids then.

Tomb Raider II: Dagger of Xian

• Lara Croft: Pardon me if that was just your way of trying the doors for me.
• Fiamma Nera member: [laughs] With a tommy gun on my keyring.
• Lara: Though not anymore, so after you.
• Fiamma Nera member: Somehow, you don't behave like you#ve got a monk's blood.
• Lara: I understand that "somehow" is in my favour. So indulge me about the dagger. I'd be indebted with your life.
• Fiamma Nera member: These doors are waiting for the right one. The right time to arrive. And then the dagger's blade will honour the hearts of those who believe. So, unless you pledge your loyalty as well...
• Lara: And which one is that?
• Fiamma Nera member: To the sins and fortunes of Marco Bartoli!

[He drinks some poison and dies]

• Lara: Perhaps not just yet then.

[looks into the laptop for information]

• Lara: Aha! Gianni Bartoli. Via Caravelli, Venice.

• Brother Chan: Oh, you are not one of them.
• Lara: But you are a monk?
• Brother Chan: Brother Chan, Barkhang. You have come for me. I saw bright lights around me.
• Lara: That was gunfire. I think it was them who got taken away by it.
• Brother Chan: But you are my guide. My path-beater to next incarnation. I have done my time here, haven't I?
• Lara: What are you doing here...with Marco Bartoli?
• Brother Chan: Nothing. I... I led righteous life, here for reasons rooted only a necessary evil, as my father was before me when he bombed Gianni's vessel deep into these waters. And now I am here...uh, was here, to prevent his son from salvaging the Seraph.
• Lara: The Seraph?
• Brother Chan: You not know my life's work well... You sure you not here for them?
• Lara: Their Jackanory days are well over.

[Lara begins changing into a wet suit while he speaks]

• Brother Chan: They want the Seraph to unlock a malignant treasure we contain in our monastery in Tibet. Since being stolen by imbecile vagabonds centuries ago, we been without key to it...relying solely on cleansing of our prayers to keep it subdued. Then the occultist Gianni B. acquired it. Trouble we knew. He breathed life back into ancient belief. One not to be stopped by any amount of head bowing. And now again it is here. Marco, infected with madness. He has violent mind, but not yet the power to satiate it. So, we reach for our weapons once more.
• Lara: The true Detox of evil.
• Brother Chan: Where can you be taking me? Thought this was my big break. Guess change is good at rest. [He sighs] I need one.

[From above a balcony Bartoli shoots the monk in the chest. Lara shoots at her enemy, but hears an alarm. She runs in the sub room and jumps into the water]

• Lara: Don't you think you've seen enough!? [picks up shotgun and fires]

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft

• Lara: So, how did it end up here?
• Willard: Formed from the planets. Sculpted by Polynesians. Distributed by goons. Our excavations and investigations have led us to this. (hands her a large book) A sailor's diary from his voyage on Charles Darwin's expedition on the HMS Beagle.

• Lara: Hello?... Hello?

[Tony appears from inside a tent]

• Tony: What? What do you want from me now?!
• Lara: Nothing that taxing. Are you alright?
• Tony: If you'd all stop, I might be just fine. Just one hundred percent...just...
• Lara: "If you'd all stop?" Who are you talking about?
• Tony: All of you. Hundreds of you talking and chattering and breaking my brain up...
• Lara: Hmm. Well, I'm not quite sure where you're coming from, but I just want to know about the Infada artefact.

[Shows the ruins behind]

• Lara: In the temple up there.
• Tony: Voodoo magic and all, huh? I don't touch the stuff myself.
• Lara: It's not voodoo. Look, is there anyone else here with you?
• Tony: Yeah. Randy and Rory. Pheesh...
• Lara: Randy and Rory? Where? What are you all doing here?
• Tony: Well, they're staying put...in that temple. I told them not to. Warned them first. Not doing much now I doubt... under half a ton of mudslide. Me? I'm leaving. Next bus out. This jungle has rooted enough rot into me. I'd offer the same advice to you, but you don't seem like the type to take it...to care if I said you're gonna die in there. [laughs] Yeah...die...

[Tony jumps of a ledge and disappears]

• Lara : Not interrupting, am I?
• General: Not bleedin' are ya? Not about to use this place as a dunny?
• Lara : No and uh...no.
• General: Good, good.

[He shows Lara his badly wounded leg, missing from the knee down]

• General: Just don't want any fly-carrying visitors in here.
• Lara: Right, I understand. What happened?
• General: Woke up in the jungle with one of those little blokes snacking on my leg, didn't I?
• Lara: A tribesman? It isn't usual for them to eat right off the bone like that...
• General: Well, it was dark and I never got the bugger, so I can't be sure. Something spooky is in that jungle. Our air-carrier crashed up in the mountains. Every night, some of my men would vanish without a trace. Others fled in fear. Then this happened. [He points to his leg] So, I brought the men down to shore for safety only for us to be captured by this greedy mob. Some sort of sacrifice to their god who lives up in the hills. Though it seems I've not been invited to the barbie.
• Lara: Maybe you're the dessert. Ripe flesh can be a bit of a delicacy around here.
• General: For real?

[Nearby drum sounds are heard]

• Lara: Listen, we'd better get you out of here. Do you know how the tribes cross the swamp down there? Which stones they tread on?
• General: Yeah, but I'm stayin' put. With this wound, I'd be like a fill-up station for every diseased bug in the bush. I'd rather be the main course at the real feast. [He gives Lara a map] Hey, if you see any of my men alive in there direct them to the north shore, will ya? Away from here.
• Lara: Of course.

• Hired assassin: I mean, I could even be retired from you.
• Lara: Then you might like to mind...the bell.

[The assassin turns around, but is knocked off the ledge by the tower bell]

• Lara:[watches him fall down] Happy retirement.

• Sophia: Ah, Miss Croft. I take it you're ready to sign up.
• Lara: To what?
• Sophia: Well, my books. You see, with your lifestyle, you'd be the perfect campaign for my products. Just think, you wouldn't be needing those unsightly weapons anymore...
• Lara: No, but I'll probably have an unsightly face, judging by your past experiments.
• Sophia: My what?
• Lara: Oh, yes. They're all still alive. Very much so, in fact. All I want is the artefact.

[Lara reaches for it, but Sophia takes the artefact first]

• Sophia: [laughs] Right! In your next life!
• Lara: We'll see.

• Tribesman: 'Tis well fa you. Me fasting dis day. You make plenty good flesh-pot.
• Lara: You forget. I might be quite hungry myself. Famished actually.

Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation

• Werner: And so, we breach the sanctum of the ancients. The first foot falls in this tomb for centuries.
• Lara: This place gives me the creeps. After you.

[Lara dives in the water to look for artefacts, but comes back empty handed]

• Lara: Your average priceless seaweed.

[Lara prepares to exit the temple, but hears Von Croy's voice nearby]

• Von Croy: Miss Croft!
• Lara: [with a cold tone] Von Croy...
• Von Croy: You sound concerned, my dear. Have you misplaced something?
• Lara: Nothing that I shan't be retrieving at a later date, lieber.
• Von Croy: You know how I admire your perseverance, but I fear this time you may be taking it to the...how would you say? Maximum?
• Lara: Always griping, Werner. If it's the leg that's causing all this resentment, I seem to remember that being down to your affinity with pulling hazardous levers.
• Von Croy: Enough of this tedious banter, Miss Croft. It is time for you to realize...

[Werner hears Lara taking out her pistols]

• Von Croy: Miss Croft?

[He looks around the corner; Lara shoots at him, but misses]

• Von Croy: Now let us review your sprinting skills!

[He takes the Amulet and the temple door closes before Lara can escape]

• Lara: Your work force is about to be delayed.

• Werner: Take may hand! I can pull you to safety!
• Lara: Good to see you again, Werner.
• Werner: [shouting] I couldn't leave you!

Tomb Raider V: Chronicles

[Winston and Father Patrick are in a limo watching the news]

• Announcer: In world news, a private memorial service was held today for renowned archaeologist Lara Croft.
• Father Patrick: 'Tis a sad day, Winston.
• Winston: She will live on forever in our hearts...
• Father Patrick: Surely, Winston, and for this is but a memorial service. There may yet be news from Von Croy in Egypt.
• Winston: Indeed. We can only hope and pray that she may yet return to us. But I fear Von Croy digging in the hopes of discovering her alive may only be met with black reality.
• Father Patrick: Indeed. Indeed.

• Larson: Well, gol' darn, ain't she just a picture?
• Lara: Ah, the charming Mr. Larson. Has Pierre let you off the leash? Talking of which, where is our learned friend?
• Larson: Aw, he's around. You got the cash?
• Lara: I've got the cash, but I don't deal with the monkey.
• Larson: Well now, that ain't polite for a lady...even if the monkey has the Mercury Stone?

[He shows her a glowing yellow gem. Lara picks up a black briefcase, filled with money]

• Lara: Lucky I'm in a generous mood.

[Pierre emerges and points a gun at her head]

• Lara Ah, crawled out from under your rock, I see.
• Pierre: No need for unpleasantries, Miss Croft. I'm afraid I must once again relieve you of your burden.
• Lara: Easy come, easy go.

[Pierre takes the briefcase and prepares to leave, but Lara places her hand on the railing. Like a true gentleman, Pierre bends to kiss her hand. Lara stands up and kicks him, making the stone fly away from him. She catches it and leaps onto the balcony railing. Then she leaps out over the orchestra and grabs the curtain. She slides down to the stage where the spectatours applause. Lara bows then runs offstage while Pierre starts to fire. Pierre and Larson run downstairs after her]

• Larson: It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.

[Lara runs out of the building by the stage door and hops onto a deliveryman's scooter. Larson and Pierre get into an empty taxi and follow]

• Larson: Buckin' bronco, baby!

[Seeing the end of a narrow alley, Lara jumps of the bike and rolls under a low metal gate]

• Larson: We ain't gonna make that gap, boss.
• Pierre: We'll make it.
• Larson: Ain't gonna.

[They crash into the gate]

• Larson: What did *I* tell you?
• Pierre: Mon Dieu!

[Lara blows them a kiss and walks off]

[Larson,after shooting at Lara from above a roof is stopped by Pierre at the last second]

• Larson: What?!
• Pierre: Idiot... idiot! What does the cowboy achieve with this mindless firing?
• Larson: Ain't mindless.. ain't we tryin' to kill'er anymore then?
• Pierre: You were kicked in the head by a horse, oui? So the brain doesn't work correctly...
• Larson: How'd you know about that?
• Pierre: Never mind, never mind... We'll wait 'till she collects the other pieces, it this fashion we have both prizes at no extra efforts.
• Larson: You is one clever cookie, boss.
• Pierre: Comparatively, yes. Now, let's get off this roof, and I will buy you a milkshake.

• Jean Yves: The Zapadnaya Litsa port. Once the pride of the Russian fleet.

[Lara sees through her binoculars that two cars enter the base]

• Jean Yves: Ex-KGB the majority of them. Trained killers.
• Lara: Dealt with Mafioso before... unpleasant memories. Prefer to avoid them whenever possible.
• Jean Yves: Yes, I would prefer this also.

[Through the binoculars she observes the presence of only a few small boats]

• Lara: Hardly a major search party, is it? There's something you're not telling me.
• Jean Yves: Ah, yes.
• Lara: I'm a big girl now. Hit me with the bad news.
• Jean Yves: It is... bad news. The admiral's allegiance has been bought and under his command a nuclear submarine. It's housed in one of the dockyards.
• Lara: Well done. Nuclear submarine... sounds nice... perfect holiday.
• Jean Yves: Lara, wait. Take this tracking device.
• Lara: What's this? You're not worried about me.
• Jean Yves: Yes. Someone has to.

[He hands her the tracking device]

• Lara: Touching... but don't wait up.

• Mikhailov: Move your men along. I do not pay such extortional prices for incompetence.
• Admiral Yarofev: You forget, Mikhailov, I am still an admiral of the Russian navy, and as such, demand respect.
• Mikhailov: While you accept my bribes for use of the submarine, you are under my employ and will follow my instructions without complaint.
• Admiral Yarofev: If I deal with the likes of you to keep my men in bread, it does not make me one of you.
• Mikhailov: Relax, my friend. We are two sides of the same coin.
• Admiral Yarofev: [in a low voice] Mafioso filth.

[The Admiral faces one of his men]

• Admiral Yarofev: Kruschev, hurry on with that box. Our new commander demands efficiency.

[A box is lowered into the sub]

• Admiral Yarofev: Enough! Enough! Board and seal hatches!

[The Mafioso and Yarofev prepare to board]

• Mikhailov: As you have promoted me to commander, is it not fitting to board before the admiral?

• Zip: Ok, Miss Croft, I'm presuming, by the lack of communication that you're at Industries building, right? Containing our little prize- the Iris?

[Lara talks through her headset]

• Lara: Affirmative.
• Zip: Right! Now this is what you're good at, yeah? Time to switch roofs.
• Lara: Switch roofs? Easy to say from the ground floor. Wouldn't you agree?
• Zip: C'mon now! Stiff upper lip! Top hole and all that! Time to get hip with Zip!
• Lara: Gone.

[Lara hang-glides to the roof of the next building, but the flight is disturbed by strong wind. She starts to loose control but soon regains it. Zip hears a high-pitch sound in his headset]

• Zip: Yow! Jimi Hendrix is back! Lara? You there, Lara? Croft, are you gettin' this?
• Lara: Fly me.
• Zip: Geez, now that was a blast! What the hell happened?
• Lara: Never mind Yankee, I'm going in.

• Zip: Lara are you there? Lara? Lara! You broke? You ain't dead, is ya? C'mon girl, answer me!
• Lara: Gonna be sore in the morning...
• Zip: I knew you was too tough for a fall like that.
• Lara: I'm on the ground floor, aren't I?
• Zip: Bing! Ground floor: depart here for gun-toting refrigerator men and long walk back upstairs. Sorry girl, you got it, but hell, you in one piece, ain't ya?

[Lara starts coughing]

• Lara: Never felt better.

Tomb Raider VI: The Angel of Darkness

[At the beginning of the game]

• Narrator: There have been 17 reported murders so far in this latest outbrake of Monstrum killings. It would appear to be the work of a single highly psychotic perpetrator. The name of the latest victim was just released: professor Werner Von Croy. A female, described as Caucasian, brunette, and wearing a pony-tail was seen leaving the most recent crime-scene. Officers are advised to use extreme caution when apprehending the suspect. At present, nothing appears to link any of the individuals involved. There are no known survivors of these attacks, so far.

• Lara: Not alot of passing trade at this hour?
• Janice: It's early yet. Move along ma chère, you make the place look crowded.

• Pierre [from Cafe Metro]: That information is very dangerous.
• Lara: I'm a dangerous girl, and right now I'm losing patience!

• Lara: What happened to your man in the room out there, Bouchard?
• Bouchard: To Arnaud? You've got something to say about that?
• Lara: Maybe. It might be linked to what happened to a friend of mine.
• Bouchard: I doubt it. Get out of here.
• Lara: Do you know the name Eckhardt?
• Bouchard: Never heard of him.
• Lara: Ok. You helped a friend of mine a while back. Werner Von Croy.
• Bouchard: Names don't mean a lot here. Even real ones. What did he want?
• Lara: Maps and information, on the Louvre.
• Bouchard: I remember. Four weeks ago. Wanted to take a couch load of Japanese tourists to see the Mona Lisa.

[After being knocked over, Lara is found by Bouchard]

• Bouchard: You ok?
• Lara: Bouchard! What are you doing here?
• Bouchard: No time now. Quickly!
• Lara: Was anyone around when you got here?
• Bouchard: No. No one. Come on!
• Lara: Bouchard, I must get to Von Croy's apartment. There's something I have to check out there.
• Bouchard: Your friend's place. Of course. Where is it?
• Lara: Rue Valise. The Chantell building. Do you know it?
• Bouchard: My driver will. Get it.

[They both climb in the car]

• Lara: What were you doing at the Louvre?
• Bouchard: Trawling police short wave. You were attracting a lot of attention in there. I figured you might need help.
• Lara: Thanks.
• Bouchard: Wouldn't you prefer somewhere safer than your friend's apartment?
• Lara: I found some leads in the Louvre that may link to his death. I have to check is apartment.
• Bouchard: We're almost there.There's something you should know. The police bands were full of details of another Monstrum killing- in Prague.
• Lara: Prague!? Not a dealer named Vasiley? Mathias Vasiley
• Bouchard: Yes. You knew him?
• Lara: He's connected with what I need to find at Von Croy's apartment.

[Bouchard begins to sit up]

• Lara: I need to go in alone.
• Bouchard:Ok, I'll wait here.
• Lara: Appreciate it, Bouchard.

[After she leaves, Bouchard makes a phone call ]

• Bouchard: She's inside now. You can send in the cleaner.

• Bouchard [over the Cleaner's cellular phone]: Is she taken care of yet? Hello? Is she dead yet? We have to get back to Prague.
• Lara: No, Bouchard. She isn't. But your little friend is. I'll take care of you later.
• [She throws away the cellular phone]
• Lara: It's time I visited Prague.

• Lara: If I had a coconut for every time some lunatic said something like that...

• Eckhardt:Congratulations Miss Croft, you are positively Amazonian.That Vault has defeated us for months.
• Lara: What do you want, Eckhardt?
• Eckhardt: I'm not interested in you or your friend, Miss Croft. Give me the Painting and you may both leave.
• Lara: What choice do I have?...

[Kurtis,unconscious, is pushed of the platform]

• Eckhardt:Gunderson, release Boaz.This old colleague of mine was once a human- before she displeased me.

[Muller follows Eckhardt as he begins to move away]

• Eckhardt: Not you Muller, you useless piece of dross! You failed me too!

[Muller is pushed of the platform and falls victim to Boaz.]

• Kurtis: Come on. I'll give you a boost.

[Lara jumps on the above platform]

• Lara: Kurtis, quick!
• Kurtis: Here! Take these two!

[He throws her the Shards]

• Lara: These are your speciality, Kurtis.
• Kurtis: Go on! You're wasting time! Don't worry about ugly here. I can take care of her.

• Eckhardt: Still alive, Miss Croft? You are resilient. But over the decades I've killed more mortals like you than I can remember.
• Lara: And stole their body parts like a cheap grave robber.
• Eckhardt: As I will now take yours.
• Lara: To wake this thing? You are grotesque!
• Eckhardt: Only my great arts can cause the higher race to flourish again.
• Lara: So, I guess it's up to me to stop you then?
• Eckhardt: I hunted down and killed the last of the Lux Veritatis. I am immortal!

[Lara holds the Shards in the air]

• Eckhard: The Shards!
• Lara: Scary, huh? For you.
• Eckhardt: It is my destiny to breed Hell on earth. You are nothing to me.
• Lara: D'you know it's going to be a real pleasure to shut you up.

[Lara prepares to stab Eckhardt with the Shard, but is stopped]

• Lara: Karel?!
• Eckhardt: Go on! Kill her!

[Karel pauses and turns to stab Eckhardt]

• Karel: I knew you'd find the third Shard.
• Lara: But why? You worked for him.
• Karel: No, unwillingly he worked for me, but his usefulness was ended.
• Lara: Will you destroy his work.
• Karel: Of course not. The Great Work will be finished. I'm offering you the chance to become part of a benign new order in the world.
• Lara: You are kidding, right?

[Karel's appearance begins to change, his face is covered with marks]

• Karel: We Nephilim have only ever been trying to survive
• Lara: Too many people have died for me to trust you. Including a good friend, Von Croy.

[He keep switching appearances, looking like Bouchard, Muller and then Kurtis]

• Karel: He was an unfortunate victim of history, Lara. Eckhardt was stupid to have killed him. I have helped you all along, both here and in Paris. You can trust me, Lara Croft.

[Lara sees the mark on his hand]

• Lara: You killed Von Croy!
• Karel: Stupid mortal. So be it!

Tomb Raider VII: Legend

• Zip: Y'know, I think you forgot your climbing gear on purpose!
• Lara: What would give you that idea?

[She grabs the edge a crevice, but the rock brakes and Lara falls. She quickly finds a new place to gang onto]

• Lara: Breathe Zip, it's like going up a set of stairs, only far less boring.
• Zip: Yeah? Well I wanna throw up every time you look down... Hey, Alister's back! [To Alister] Grab a headset.
• Lara: Back so soon? From Florence, wasn't it?

• Lara: I'm falling in love all over again.

• Lara: They don't seem so keen on visitors these days...
• Zip: But hey, you're the one with the guns.
• Lara: You can't blame me for knowing how to accessorise. Any word from Anaya?
• Zip: She said she'll meet you at the statue in the marketplace.
• Lara: At least we'll have our privacy.

• Lara: You'd be amazed how persuasive I can be.

Movies

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

• Lara: Was it programmed to stop before it took my head off?
• Bryce: Ah well, that would be a...no.

• Lara: "To see your world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour."

• Lara: "Return the iron to it's stone embrace, the wheel of heaven will turn. Exhume the light from it's watery grave, to receive the gift of heaven, as you are condemned to the depths of hell."

• Lara: But you might try to kill me.
• Manfred Powell: I'm not going to kill you.
• Lara: I said you'd *try*.

• Bryce: Me bum's gone to sleep again, all down the left cheek.
• Lara: Really? That's fascinating.

• Bryce: What's that smell?
• Lara: Five AM

• Bryce: My ignorance amuses me... My ignorance amuses me?
• Lara: Yes well I've always found your ignorance quite amusing.

• Lara: I woke up this morning and I just hated everything.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

• Lara: Some things were not meant to be found.

[Bryce and Hillary are getting a makeover by some tribesmen]

• Bryce: Lara, are you okay?
• Hillary: Lara, you all right?
• Lara Croft: This is very touching...
• Bryce: You know us, always making friends... having a laugh.
• Lara Croft: Getting married.
• Bryce: What?
• Kosa: This is a wedding ceremony and you are the grooms.
• Lara Croft: Good luck, boys.

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