Ishiyumi-sensei always writes such amazing dialogue. Brings to mind of some quotes...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
― Mark Twain

Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension.

― Emerson Roy West

They say that courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear.

― Ruth Cardello

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, (...)

― Winston Churchill

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Of course, it being in the context of a schoolboy choosing to become a magical girl (via Magical Sparkly Bullshit™) despite his fears makes it all the more... poignant? Or discongruous? Can't quite describe it... ah, well, anyway, poor guy. But he does have the balls.

(Even if he might be lacking them by that point.)

NNescio said:

Ishiyumi-sensei always writes such amazing dialogue. Brings to mind of some quotes...

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Of course, it being in the context of a schoolboy choosing to become a magical girl (via Magical Sparkly Bullshit™) despite his fears makes it all the more... poignant? Or discongruous? Can't quite describe it... ah, well, anyway, poor guy. But he does have the balls.

(Even if he might be lacking them by that point.)

Especially considering his greatest enemy is probably himself; the split personality he's developing every time he transforms.

NNescio said:

Ishiyumi-sensei always writes such amazing dialogue. Brings to mind of some quotes...

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Of course, it being in the context of a schoolboy choosing to become a magical girl (via Magical Sparkly Bullshit™) despite his fears makes it all the more... poignant? Or discongruous? Can't quite describe it... ah, well, anyway, poor guy. But he does have the balls.

(Even if he might be lacking them by that point.)

I always like using references to the ovaries as replacements for "balls" in expressions; I know someone who got me in the habit of using "Cast-iron ovaries" as an equivalent to "Balls of steel", for example. So I guess...

LTalon said:

I always like using references to the ovaries as replacements for "balls" in expressions; I know someone who got me in the habit of using "Cast-iron ovaries" as an equivalent to "Balls of steel", for example. So I guess...

Well, they both started off as the same organ, so...