Noface Quotes

White No-Face chuckled sympathetically. “Silly child. Did you think someone would help you pull out that sword?

Xie Lian had his back turned to him. "If a day isn't enough, then let it take a month; if a month won't do then two months, three months! If I can't save ten thousand, then I'll save a thousand; if I can't save a thousand then I'll save a hundred, TEN, EVEN IF IT'S ONLY ONE!!!" White No-Face exclaimed in outrage, "WHY??" Xie Lian raised that sword with both his hands and roared loudly, "THERE IS NO REASON WHY! BECAUSE I WANT TO!!! EVEN IF I TOLD YOU..." He turned his head back slightly. "-- USELESS TRASH LIKE YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.

And then, Xie Lian abruptly froze. White No-Face was hugging him.

I KNOW NO ONE WILL COME, but it’s none of your shitty business,” Xie Lian retorted with force. “Then why did you poke a hole to lie down in?” White No-Face languidly asked. “Are you trying to get some attention? No one will cry over you.” “I’m doing this because I want to,” Xie Lian countered. “It’s none of your shitty business.

(There is always another country and always another place. There is always another name and another face. And the name and the face are you, and you The name and the face, and the stream you gaze into Will show the adoring face, show the lips that lift to you As you lean with the implacable thirst of self, As you lean to the image which is yourself, To set the lip to lip, fix eye on bulging eye, To drink not of the stream but of your deep identity, But water is water and it flows, Under the image on the water the water coils and goes And its own beginning and its end only the water knows. There are many countries and the rivers in them -Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, Colorado, Pecos, Little Big Horn, And Roll, Missouri, roll. But there is only water in them. And in the new country and in the new, place The eyes of the new friend will reflect the new face And his mouth will speak to frame The syllables of the new name And the name is you and is the agitation of the air And is the wind and the wind runs and the wind is everywhere. The name and the face are you. And they are you. Are new. For they have been dipped in the healing flood. For they have been dipped in the redeeming blood. For they have been dipped in Time And Time is only beginnings Time is only and always beginnings And is the redemption of our crime And is our Saviour's priceless blood. For Time is always the new place, And no-place. For Time is always the new name and the new face, And no-name and no-face. For Time is motion For Time is innocence For Time is West.)

Furthermore, Chihiro and Alice share a key relationship with food: the lavish meal transforms the girl’s parents into pigs; Haku’s berry saves her from disappearing and his onigiri2 comfort her; the river spirit’s dumpling cures No-Face and Haku,

Kaonashi”) acts as a reflection of the father. The ability to pay, in his case gold, should let him do anything. But Chihiro makes No-Face aware that it is not so ‒ she will never accept anything from him because what she is searching for cannot be bought or consumed. From this realization, No-Face loses his reference points (his relational blueprint disintegrates) and enters a state of madness and destruction. His gluttony, however, is only a means to fill an emptiness given his despondency and anguish when he cannot buy the relationship with Chihiro.