Mass Effect 2
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Biography
"[From trailer] We have to give everything, even if that means our lives. We will stop at nothing. We will fight for the lost."
"[when Mordin asks him/her to distribute a cure] Just once I'd like to ask someone for help and hear them say, "Sure. Let's go. Right now. No strings attached.""
"I’ve had enough of your disingenuous assertions! [punches reporter in the face, possibly after doing the same in the first game; if not, adds: I should have done this the first time we met]"
"[when asked to surrender all weapons upon entering a prison ship] I'll relinquish one bullet. Where do you want it?"
"The Collectors attacked our ship. They took our crew, our friends. They think we're helpless. They're wrong. They started a war, but we're not here to finish it. We're here to make them regret -- to show them and everyone else what happens when you go too far. No more running, no more waiting. Let's hit them where they live."
"They tell me it's a suicide mission. I intend to prove them wrong."
"I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store on the Citadel. [repeatedly, in up to 4 stores]"
"[being chewed out by the Illusive Man for destroying the Collector Base] I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. I'm getting a lot of bullshit on this line."
"Harbinger is coming and he won't be alone. I'm going to make sure we're ready when he gets here. You can fall in line or step aside, but don't get in my way."
"I'm going to stop the Reapers, but I won't sacrifice the soul of our species to do it."
"[Alternative] I'm going to do exactly what you brought me back to do: I'm going to win this war, and I'll do it without sacrificing the soul of our species."
"You kill people because you think they're beneath you; I kill people when they leave me no choice."
"Hell, Garrus, you were always ugly. Slap some face paint on there and no one will even notice."
"[ordering a sixth drink at a Citadel bar] Hell yeah... put more of the stuff in the... the thing where stuff goes in."
"[after catching Conrad Verner threatening a bartender; while holding him at gunpoint] Conrad, let me make this perfectly clear. [starts lowering the weapon, but suddenly shoots him in the foot] This is not acceptable."
"I was only "mostly dead". Try finding that option on government paperwork."
"You don't get to just walk away, lady. Unlike Conrad, I actually know how to use a gun."
"The Collectors are about to find out what happens when you piss me off."
"[after the Illusive Man knowingly sends the ship into a trap] You have one job - information. If I can't trust your intel you're useless to me."
"Once we're inside, they're going to throw everything they have at us. If we're weak, if we're slow, if we hesitate...then we'll die."
"We don't know how many the Collectors have stolen. Thousands, hundreds of thousands. It's not important. What matters is this: Not. One. More. That's what we can do here, today. It ends with us. They want to know what we're made of? I say we show them, on our terms. Let's bring our people home."
"[Upon leaving a conversation] I should go."
"[On trusting the Illusive Man] I don't trust anyone who makes more than I do."
"Commander can you believe this?! It's my baby, she's better than new, fits me like a glove! And leather seats!"
"And there's the down-side. I liked the Normandy when she was beautiful and quiet. Now she's got this thing I don't want to talk about. It's like ship-cancer."