When you can't afford something, it's really expensive. And then when you can afford it, it's free.
He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch, it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slope's gonna put their greasy, yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it in one place he knew he could hide something — his ass. Five long years he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery — He give me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then… after seven years, I was sent home to my family and… now… Little man, I give the watch to you.
— What is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?
— Eνerything.
Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?
I'd rather lose my job than my friend.
The world now had a greater superficial wealth than the one they grew up in. Yet something had been lost. It seemed to them a crueller, harsher place, devoid of values. Worse, it seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
— I want you to have what you need.
— All I need is you, papa. Please stay.