Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)

The Deserter (2005)

Zach Tyler Eisen: Aang

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Quotes 

• Jeong Jeong : Get out.

  Aang : Master, I need to learn Firebending.

  Jeong Jeong : Only a fool seeks his own destruction.

  Aang : I'm the Avatar. It's my destiny to...

  Jeong Jeong : Destiny? What would a boy know of destiny? If a fish lives it's whole life in this river, does he know the river's destiny? No! Only that it runs on and on, out of his control. He may follow where it flows, but he cannot see the end. He cannot imagine the ocean.

  Aang : Okay... But it's Avatar's duty to master all of the Bending disciplines.

  Jeong Jeong : To master the Bending disciplines, you must first master discipline itself. But you have no intrest in this, so I have no intrest in you! Now, get out.

  Aang : Please, I have to learn. This could be my only chance.

  Jeong Jeong : Are you deaf? How can I teach you if you refuse to listen? Before learning Firebending, you must learn Water and Earth. Water is cool and soothing, Earth is steady and stable. But Fire... Fire is alive. It breathes, it grows. Without the Bender, a rock will not throw itself! But Fire will spread and destroy everything in it's path if one does not have the will to control it! That is its destiny! You are not ready! You are too weak!

  Avatar Roku : You think I am weak?

  Jeong Jeong : Avatar Roku! No, no! I did not mean that.

  Avatar Roku : I have mastered the elements a thousand of times in a thousand lifetimes. Now, I must do it once again. You *will* teach the Avatar Firebending.

  Jeong Jeong : Yes, yes. I will teach you.

  Aang : Really? That's great!

  Jeong Jeong : Agh...

• [to Admrial Zhao about his fire bending skills] 

  Aang : I don't know why, but I thought you'd be better then Zuko.

• Aang : You've lost this battle.

  Zhao : Are you crazy? You haven't thrown a single blow.

  Aang : No, but you have.

  [Zhao turns to look at his boats which he lit on fire] 

  Aang : Jeong Jeong said you have no restraint.

• [last lines] 

  Sokka : Oh, well, then thanks for all the first-aid over the years. Like when I fell into the greasebeary bramble, and that time I had two fishhooks in my thumb!

  Aang : Two?

  Katara : He tried to get the first fishhook out with another fishhook.

  Sokka : Oh, and the time that mink snake bit me. Thanks for healing that up. That was great, really helpful.

• Jeong Jeong : What are you doing here? I did not tell you to stop!

  Aang : I've been breathing for hours.

  Jeong Jeong : You want to stop breathing?

• Aang : I already know how to squat and breathe and feel the sun! I want to know how to shoot fire from my fingertips!

• Aang : Jeong Jeong tried to tell me that I wasn't ready, I wouldn't listen. I'm never going to Firebend again.

  Katara : You'll have to, eventually.

  Aang : No, never again.

  Katara : It's okay, Aang. I'm healed.

• Katara : Aang, hold on. Where are we going?

  Aang : I don't know, but there's a big crowd,so it must be good.

  Sokka : Knowing the Fire Nation, it's probably an execution.

• Aang : Sokka, this could be my only chance to meet a Firebending master who would *actually* be willing to teach me.

  Katara : It can't hurt just to talk to him.

  Sokka : That's what you said about going to the festival! Why doesn't anyone ever listen to me?

• Sokka : [Angrily]  What did you do?

  Aang : It was an accident! I was... Katara, I'm so...

  [Sokka tackles Aang] 

  Sokka : I told you we shouldn't mess around with this! Look what you did! You burned my sister!

• [first lines] 

  Katara : This should give us a good idea of what's around here.

  Sokka : See if you can find a menu. I'm starving.

  Aang : I bet we'll find something to eat here. The Fire Days Festival.