Phrases

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Repetition, it works.

— Dean Winchester, The Game of God, ch. 5

Common phrases and quotes, listed by first appearance.

Map of the World

• "You look good on your knees."
• "I wish I could have told the Host to fuck themselves before they left. . . . That still bothers me sometimes."
• "...paying for your sins in alphabetical order. Or was it by severity?"
• "Give me your hand."
• "So, what's it gonna be?"
• "How does this story end?"
• '...the limitless depths of an infinite ocean...'
• "You've convinced me."
• "This isn't a test, and if it was, surviving is all you gotta do to pass."
• ". . .to even step on the field."
• "You never give up, I'm not sure you even know how."
• "You want some coffee?"
• "Everything and all things"
• "You could light the world if you tried."
• "Know yourself."
• "You don't even know where to start."
• "I kneel for no one and nothing, not anymore."
• "Spread your bread upon the water. It comes back, it always comes back."
• "You got a thousand miles to go before you sleep."
• "It's not a choice if there's only one answer you're allowed to give."
• "If you can't believe in yourself, believe in me, and I can believe enough for the both of us."
• "No one says no, Dean, not if they're worthy of the question."
• . . . in a bowl of light. . .
  • "It's like [Lucifer] doesn't even notice he's standing in a bowl of light."
  • "In [Dean's] mind, an image forms: Chitaqua in a bowl of light, lit by something brighter than the sun."
• "You can't hear it?"
• It's forever in here.
  • "It feels like forever."
• "You aren't this." "It's exactly what I am; I carry it everywhere, always."
• "You stood up." "What?" "You said yes."
• "This was, is, and will always be. All we can do is bear witness."
• "Qafsiel, Kaziel, Cassiel, Messenger, by whatever name, with whatever rite, in whatever appearance it is right to invoke thee, I entreat you to grant me a single request."
• "What you will see tonight is the worst of us... the worst of us can be the best. . ."
• "We haven't lost yet."
• "We are the scales and the weight and that which weighs all things"
• . . .the meaning of the word.
• "All you gotta do is try."
• "It hasn't even started."

It's the Stars That Lie

• "As you wish."
• "You don't like mirrors." "No." "What do you see?" "Exactly what's there."
• Sometimes the only way to win is to fight.
• "You really think we can win?"
• "Consent's not just a word." Not anymore.
• "If I said jump off that cliff over there, would you do it?" "I would."
• Variants of Cas talking about things he'd do in Dean's name:
  • "Give me a week and your team leaders, and I'll bring Kansas to its knees in your name."
  • "[F]or you, hundreds of my Brothers died trying to free you from Hell, and it was in your name I took the lives of those who survived, in nomine Dean--"
  • Regarding the sigils: "All things must have a name, Chuck was right, and it did; I named it after you."