“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist”
“To see with eyes unclouded by hate.”
Ashitaka, in Princess Mononoke.
“Yesterday is gone. So is the day before. Don’t waste today by arguing about it.”
Alternatively, when someone angers me:
“May all your bacon burn.”
“There you are, sweetheart, sorry I’m late. I was looking everywhere for you.” (Howl’s Moving Castle)
It’s the very first thing Howl says to Sophie when they meet for the first time. The quote itself, without context, isn’t exactly meaningful and rather sounds like some bullsh*t smalltalk to distract the guards … but there is this scene very late in the story where Sophie goes back in time and witnesses a young Howl catching and swallowing Calcifer. Remember what she did?
She called out to them. “Howl! Calcifer! I’ts me, Sophie! I know how to help you now - find me in the future!”
Howl literally has been looking for her ever since that day.
It’s one of these small but really cool details that you only retroactively realize after watching the movie several times.
“You cannot alter your fate. However, you can rise to meet it” - Princess Mononoke, but in German it’s much better.
