In the end, he has spent five years running.
It is a game, and one she feels the need to play.
[Chapter 30] Even humanity's strongest soldier must bow his head in front of death.
[Related to Episode 55, pre-episode 46] He does not even remember if he has to go back for some reason.
Ignorance is said to be bliss. [Jim Guthrie - You are far (Do you exist?)]
Never mind, turn back time. You'll be fine, I will get left behind. [Breaking Benjamin - Unknown Soldier]
Some of us get their memories back. Others never do.
He is just waiting for her burden to become too heavy.
"Try not to get tired of me soon, baby," Cabanela smirked. "I'll honour you with my presence for the whole ceremony. Then all through the feast. And then for a looonger time."
She says it, five times a day at least. She just cannot find the words.
The first word is help. After that, she cannot look away.
You have been murdered countless times, and all you have learnt is that death just doesn't work that way.
[post T&T - no AJ AU] "It's been four years since then," Phoenix reminded him. "Four years since we sat at this very table."
I have trained long and hard for this, so I could be ready for anything. I won't disappoint you.
[pre-manga] In the end, alive or not, they are all the same — fragile and broken, like dry leaves in the fall.
As you watch her slip from your grasp, you remember the way you have seen things die.
You have got to focus on the one thing that means the most to you, and protect it to the end. — Puella Magi Madoka Magica, episode 9
No medal could ever compare to the thought of doing this forever.
"To be honest, Edgeworth, I didn't know we had a ballroom here." — In which the Ace Attorney movie teaches Maya how to play the piano, and Phoenix and Miles have to seek the way to salvation in fifteen minutes and three tons of paper. A crack-fic, dearly dedicated to the weirdest scene in our beloved live action adaptation.
[Anime canon] There is no improvement without mistakes, and no mistake comes without pain.