Kitty *to Brian*:"It's me, Kitty! Whatever's happened, however we appear...we're still pals right?"
Brian *changed by demons*: "You dare to challenge the might of the Goblin Princess."
Kitty *to herself*: "Uh-oh."
Brian: "The penalty for that transgression...is DEATH!"
Kitty: "Wrong! No more pals. Captain Britain has gone totally looney!"

Kitty:"Shoulda remembered Lummox...the bigger they are...the harder...NO!" *Kitty with knife to Brian's throat*
Brian: "Kitty!"
Kitty: "Cap?"
Brian: "Are you...going to kill me?"
Kitty *throwing knife aside*: "I...I...want to more than just about anything! Like I'm not really me...but some actor playing a role. Jeez, this is scary."

Kitty *to herself*: "He's changed...and so have I...into I hate this I HATE this -- a CHEERLEADER!"

Kitty: "Y'ever notice how we always seem to wreck where we live a lot more effectively than any bad guys we fight ever do."
Alistaire: "Just consider yourselves the living embodiments of chaos theory."
Kitty: "Fractaling our way to fun and glory, huh?"
Rachel: "Mandlebrot set, game and match?"

Kitty *to herself*: "Ray -- have a heart--Gimme a break--I saw him first! First Illyana and now this--What do my roomates have that I don't? Be real doofus. Look in a mirror."
Kitty *out loud to Alistaire*: "Probably a long ride from London."
Kitty *to herself*: "Pig dog sludge bucket from Heck."
Kitty *out loud to Alistaire: "And a fair hike as well from the cliff road."
Kitty *to herself*: "Maybe if he catches pneumonia...I can nurse him back to health!"
Rachel: "Kitty makes a killer chicken soup."
Kitty: "My Aunt Nina's recipe. Some already on the stove."
Alistaire: "Sounds delightful. Lead the way."

Kitty *out loud to no one*: "Face facts kiddo -- you want attention -- you gotta make the package irresistibly attractive. Works for Ray. So what if I'm more comfortable in sneaks and sweats? When it comes to romance...comfort doesn't cut it!"

Kitty *thinking to herself*: "Alistaire Stuart. What a face! Chief scientist of the Weird Happenings Organization. I'm staring. He'll notice. I wish he would. Why hasn't he?"

Rachel: "Are you sure that's wise Professor?"
Alistaire *to himself*: "What a face!"
Rachel: If this 'Widget' jaunts somewhere without us, we're stuck."
Alistaire *to himself*: "I'm staring."
Kitty *to herself*: "He's staring. Thanks Rachel."

Kitty *to ogre*: "Yo Lummox -- listen up! I have powerful friends. And they're not about to take kindly to someone holding me hostage."
Ogre: "Heaven forfend, I am SO scared! Look how I'm shaking!"
Kitty: "Don't say I didn't warn you."
Ogre: "This castle's impregnable, Ducks. Its walls totally *wall crashes in behind him* ...unbreachable."

Rachel *Looking at what little is still standing of the castle*: "Boy -- this place has seen better days."
Princess: "The Castle -- What have you done?!?"
Kitty: "Instant air conditioning -- Excalibur style."

Kitty: "Sorry Red, no sale. You're dealing with something called "Survivor's Guilt. It's quite common among my people...survivors of the Holocaust. You feel badly about living while Brian is trapped. These feelings no doubt started long before Captain Britian left. Open up...Open your mind, your memories to me. Let's go back together...before you founded Excalibur."
Rachel: "You're the only one I trust enough to do this..."

Rachel: "Where are you going?"
Kitty: "'We.' The question is "where are we going" And you know the answer. What Ahab did to you was unthinkable and cruel, and painful...a part of your life he took away that can never be returned. But it has to end. Here. Now. You can't allow him...the memory of him...to continue to take away the rest of your life. You can't let him take away your ability to make difficult choices. YOu can't let him trap you here in this room for the rest of your life."
Rachel: "What about her?"
Kitty: "You and she deserve the right to see what there is beyond the light. It's time you stopped punishing yourself as severely as Ahab once did. C'mon Red...let's find what there is to find on the other side...together." *Takes Rachel's hand and leads her into the light*

Kitty: "These alarms must be for me...they've figured out that I still need to breathe even when I'm phasing and therefore intangible. Let's see 'em gas me through a wall. All quiet in here good. No. Pete said that 'very quiet' is too good. God, he better be okay, or I swear I'll show the one who hurt him everything Logan taught me."

Kitty *thinking to herself*:"Don't talk. Use the mist and the dark. Don't let them find you until you're good and ready for it. Whoever "them" might be. Not Black Air...if they knew I was in here, those recorded messages wouldn't still be running."

Kitty: "Oh, your face. Oh God. What did they do to you?"

Pete: "You should see the other guy. We don't have much time, and we need to find that intelligence office we broke into before..."

Kitty: "If we don't have much time, then we better go in the right direction first, eh?"

*Kitty Talking to thug about to punch her*: "You wanna hit me? Come on HIT me! I wanna see it!"
Pete: "Sorted. One behind you Kitty -- Go insubstantial."
Kitty: "I KNOW he's behind me. What you thought I was going to let myself get hit?"

Kitty: "Well we wouldn't want to argue with two gunmen...and three unarmed men...would we?"
Pete: "God, no. *Whispers* Try not to kill any of them Kitty."

Kitty: "Oh that's disgusting...watching you eat is like watching a carcrash: horrible yet strangely fascinating." Kitty to Pete

Pete *Kitty and Pete are escorting a gunmen they tied up and gagged* (speaking to Moira): "Here's the one we were missing from the holding cells, Dr. MacTaggert."
Solider *to Moira*:: "Is this one on the list? I didn't realize you'd lost one."
Moira: "Och, HIM, the...uh...The Crimson Goatgouger, an obscure super-villian from, uh, Aberystwyth. Very slippery customer, like two other folks I could mention..."
Pete: "It's vital you keep his mouth covered. He can control your mind by voice, if you remove the gag, you're DOOMED. Don't worry, he breathes through his fingers. The yanks have expressed interest in this one, Alistaire might want the, um, Goatgouger sent to them. Give him this note, it explains everything..."
Soldier: "Fine, right then, Sonny Jim, let's get you caged up and away..."
Moira (to Kitty and Pete after the soldier has left, who are laughing so hard they're almost falling down): "Right, they're gone. So let's have an explaination out o' you two, or d'ye want your slapping now?"

Pete *reading from paper*: "Here listen to this: 'Questions have been asked about the mutant organization Excalibur, believed to be based in Scotland at the Moira MacTaggert Medical Research Facility. The Prime Minister, in an official statement, made it clear that the government considers Excalibur no threat to society, and that their acts during the London Crisis were 'Most Helpful'.'"
Kitty: "Most helpful? He makes it sound like we lent a hand with the decorating."

Pete: "Cheers, Annie. I dropped a tip in there for you..."
Kitty: "I get to play packhorse, the barmaid gets a tip...I see..."
Pete: "I don't have to butter you up -- I've already got you."
Kitty: "Oh, yes, Mr. Wisdom; your charming ways and sheer elegance won my heart..."
Pete: "I didn't win you -- I earned you. See you later, Annie."

Pete (watching Kitty beating guys up): "Kitty, are you nearly done? I think you're just playing now..."
Kitty: "Give me a minute. This one's still got his eyes open."
Pete (to bleeding gunman): "You see that beautiful woman dancing on the throats of your gunmen? That's my girlfriend that is."

Pete: "Can we stop off at a pub?"
Kitty: "No."
Pete: "But I'm thirsty."
Kitty: "No. You'll have to excuse him driver. When you get to his age things get difficult. I'm his nurse."

Kitty: "'Pick up a bit of speed', He says. This thing's got one foot in the grave Pete. I could outrun it if I were outside and hopping."
Pete: "Right now that might be an option..."

Kitty *to Amara who is crying*: "Hi! I'm Kitty Pryde. I'm one of Professor Xavier's students, too. Are you okay?"
Amara: "I...need no assistance, thank you. I would prefer to be left to myself."
Kitty *to herself*: "She's my age, she really sounds awfully lonely. Heck, I remember how homesick I was my first months here -- in Amara's case, it's probably a lot worse."
Kitty *out loud*: "You sure there's nothing I can do?"
Amara *snapping: "Are you deaf, girl -- did you not hear what I said?!! I want to be ALONE!"
Kitty: "Hey, I'm sorry -- There's no need to get hyper."
Kitty *to herself as she's walking away*: Lot of good I was. It always happens this way --whenever I try to talk to someone my own age I screw it up. Outside of the X-men, I don't seem to fit anywhere...except with Doug. We mesh well."

Sammy *to Illyana*: "Kitty and that guy, Larry, have been dancin' up a storm since we arrived. Think it's the start of somethin'?"
Illyana: "Bite your tongue, Sam Guthrie! My roomie has better taste than that."

Rahne *to Kitty*: "He seemed so sad and hurt. What he said to us was stupid and cruel. But I sensed he had a good heart. I meant to tell you all, but everyone was in bed when I returned home and I fell asleep, and in the morning it was too late."
Kitty *holding a flyer that says X-Factor is coming after Larry*: "It's not your fault. He was scared. Boxed in. If anyone's responsible, it's the people who sent him this. You saw his work, Rahne. Imagine what he could have done...all that beauty -- lost forever. What a waste."

Kitty *to entire high school*: "Some of you know me. Most don't. I'm here because I guess I knew Larry Bodine best. I hardly knew him at all. If I had, maybe we wouldn't be at this memorial assembly. Who was he then, that we gather to mourn him? Who am I? A four-eyed, flat-chested, brat, chick, brain, hebe, stuck-up Xavier's snob freak! Don't like the words? I could use nicer. I've heard worse. Who here hasn't? So often, so casually, that maybe we've forgotten the power they have to hurt. Nigger, spic, wop, slope, faggot, mutie -- the list is so long and so cruel. They're labels. Put-downs. And they hurt.

But, usually, we laugh it off or hit back -- with words of our own, or fists -- or we suffer in silence. No big deal -- this is the rough edge of reality, right? Why make a fuss? Trouble was, when someone labeled Larry Bodine a "mutie" they hit home -- because he was. His power created beauty. That's it. He did with light and color what Mozart did with music. And he wanted nothing more than to be accepted by his peers, and possibly even liked -- And isn't that what any of us really want? To have friends, people to care for us? Not to be alone? If we're lucky we have someone to turn to. Larry didn't. He thought, if people knew the truth, they'd stop seeing him and see only the label, the brand, his personal "scarlet letter." So he hid the truth and lived in terror of being discovered. He even joined in when others put mutants down. What matter the cost to his soul if it made his life a little better. That's the tragedy, that's our shame.

Think of what you say. Imagine it being said about you. It's easy to make fun, real easy to be cruel. Try sometime being on the recieving end. If we're to learn anything from Larry's death, it should be this...

You want to know who I am? I'm Katherine Pryde. That's the only thing that matters. The rest are just labels."

Kitty *to Illyana while watching Piotr talk to angry mob*: "Peter must be crazy for pulling a stunt like this. And I must be crazier for going along"
Kitty *to angry mob*: "Hey mister -- who defines what's human?"
Guy in mob: "It's obvious, girl. Just open your eyes."
Kitty: "That simple huh? Well, a whole chunk of my family was murdered in gas chambers because the Nazis said it was just as "obvious" that Jews weren't human. And not so long ago, in this country, people felt the same about blacks. Some still do. Is that right?"
Guy in mob *talking about Nightcrawler who is lying looking helpless*: "He scared my kids!"
Kitty *with Piotr, Illyana and Kurt behind her*: "You scare ME! Does that give me the right to beat your brains out?! You want to prove how big and tough you are -- beat up on me! C'mon want're you waiting for?! You're bigger'n me, an I'm just a girl! Hey -- maybe I'm a mutie, too?! Ever think of that?!! Maybe we all are?!! Maybe the big guy can turn into steel and his kid sister's a demon sorceress and I can walk through walls. Maybe, when you're done, you can hang our heads on your wall as trophies. Or, better yet, take our scalps, like they did in the Wild West. That'll really be something to be proud of."
Lady in crowd: "You shouldn't talk so to your elders, young lady."
Kitty: "I don't -- to those I respect."
Kitty *to Illyana while not looking at crowd*: Illyana, what's happening?! I don't want to look."
Illyana: "They're going."
Kitty: "Whew!"
Illyana: "And you call me the silver-tongued devil. Not too shabby, Kitty."
Kitty: "Blame it on your brother..."