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Insomnia
Quoteables
Ed: I don't understand why you keep falling in.
Ed: Hey, Al--remember that woman at the shop? She knew me. Have we met before?
Ed: Great! I buy you a wrench and you try to kill me with it!
Winry: Is that the watch they give you?
"I'm one tough survivor, aren't I? I need to carry my motivation around in my pocket like some sniveling little kid with a magic charm." ~ Edward ~
Winry: Granny?
Ed: Even after I became a soldier, war still seemed like something that happened in a far-off land where I couldn't see it--or else someone else fought and died. It didn't seem real. I thought war had nothing to do with me. But now that I've learned that there's someone who is willing to start war, who is going to start war, just for the stone. I know that as long as people seek the stone's forbidden power that bloodshed will keep happening. I know the desire for that power lurks somewhere in all of us. The homunculi may throw fuel on the fire of war, but didn't the desire to bring back people that we love create them? And if they're nothing more than products of our hearts and minds, no matter how pure our intentions, then there will never be a war that isn't at least in some part caused by all of us. Ever.
Roy: But you're thinking on too large a scale there, kid. If we don't want to drive ourselves crazy, each of us can only deal with what's directly in front of us.
Ed: But what's in front of me is to defeat the one the homunculi call their master. After that I'll destroy the Philosopher's stone once and for all, so its existence will be permanently erased from mankind's memory. No one will ever hunger for its power again.
Riza: Would destroy?
Roy: So, I take it that means the Philosopher's stone has been completed. I'm guessing it's the one that Scar was working on.
Ed: In the end, it wasn't just Scar who forged the Philosopher's stone, it was in our own hearts, all of us.
Riza: But wasn't that your dream all along? To one day use the stone to get back what you and your brother lost?
Ed: All of that would mean nothing if it came at the expense of so much pain.
Roy: Then there's something, more important than that?
Ed: Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams.
Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivilant exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the one and only truth.
The Philosophers Stone: Those who possess it, no longer bound by the laws of Equivalent Exchange in Alchemy, may gain without sacrifice, create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it.
My brother and I knew the laws of science, of Equivalent Exchange: that gain required sacrifice, that something had to be taken from us. But we thought there was nothing more we could lose. We were wrong.
Al: I get full.
Ed: Full of what? (kicks Al, gets covered in a mound of sand)
Al laughs, edges away. Ed bursts out of the sand, angry, and starts chasing Al.
Ed: Get back here!
Al: What are you going to do?
Ed: Nothing!
Al: Then why are you chasing me?
Ed: Stop and you'll find out!
Al: I promise I won't get buried again.
Ed: Not unless it's by me!
[ep. 1]
Al: No, I don't think so.
Rose: You shouldn't worry. I'm sure Cornello will help you find what you're looking for. And besides, if you show him you're faithful I bet he could make you taller.
Ed: What's wrong with you people?! You come from a desert tribe of giants or something!
[ep.1]
Winry: Well, apparently you're trying to kill yourself! What have you been up to?!
Ed: Ahh...
Winry: I'm serious, Ed! I want answers! How did you wreck the best automail I ever made? I put my heart and soul into that!
Ed: Is it really my fault, though? It fell apart so easily.
Winry: Al's armor is all busted up too! Steel doesn't shatter on its own. You've been getting into some real trouble.
[ep. 17]
Ed: Yeah. It's got amplifiers that boost your transmutations.
Winry: Can I see?! The loving workmanship! The detail! Now, this is the work of a craftsman! How does it run? Do you wind it or is it self-wound? Or can it possibly be a new technique?
Ed: I dunno. And as long as it's functioning, I don't care.
Winry: Can I see how it works, Ed? Please?
Ed: Are you crazy? I know how you get when you get your hands on mechanics--you'll take it apart to the last screw.
Winry: Ohh... So what if I do? I'll put it back together and it'll work just fine. You know I'm the greatest mechanic on the planet, Ed. Right?
Ed: Get somebody else's.
Winry: Oh... (looks over her shoulder at Armstrong)
Armstrong: Hmm? I think I'll go chop about a year's worth of firewood. Yes.
Winry: Well, you guys are stingy, aren't you?
[ep. 17]
[ep.17]
Pinako: Huh?
Winry: I read the inside of Ed's watch. He engraved something on it: "Don't forget" and the date they burned their house down and left. But what exactly do you think he wanted to remember?
[ep. 17]
[ep. 48]
