List of Quotes

A list of quotes from DARLING in the FRANXX

Hiro
"It was like I was put under a spell. Her two alluring horns, and my first ever look at a naked girl’s body, left me transfixed, unable to take my eyes off of her."

- Hiro to himself, upon his first meeting with Zero Two

"I feel myself going deeper inside you!"

- Hiro to Zero Two, piloting Strelizia for the second time

"Getting mocked for my lack of a partner would be one thing. But the fact that there was still a part of me that still hoped for one made me feel pathetic."

- Hiro to himself after first meeting Zero Two

"My wings exist for you. I’m your partner. I'm not going to leave you alone."

- Hiro promising to be Zero Two’s partner

"It’s only I met you, that I can stand here right now."

- Hiro to Zero Two

"When we first met, I couldn’t take my eyes off you. You were confident, held your head high, and I found that beautiful."

- Hiro as he confesses to Zero Two

"And I called you a monster! Now we’re even!"

- Hiro to Zero Two when they reconcile

"I feel the same! Zero Two, I love you too!"

- Hiro declaring his love to Zero Two

"If Zero Two can’t smile for me, than I might as well be dead."

- Hiro to Goro after announcing he is going to space

"Liar. If that were true, than why is your last page left blank? Don’t fly off on your own. Please, Zero Two, let me stay with you. Together...let’s rewrite that story."

- Hiro to Zero Two before going into the warp gate

"I love you!"

- Hiro confessing to Zero Two

"Zero Two...we’re becoming one. Now you are me... We’re probably going to disappear soon but the others will take it from here... I love you, Zero two"

- Hiro’s last words, to Zero Two before his death

Zero Two
"The Jian, also known as “the bird that shares wings,” only possesses one wing. Unless a male and female pair lean on each other and act as one, they’re incapable of flight. They’re imperfect, incomplete creatures. But, for some reason, their way of life, struck me as profoundly beautiful. It was beautiful, I felt."

- Zero Two’s narrative debut

"I’m always alone, too. Thanks to these horns."

- Zero Two talking to Hiro

"If you don’t belong here, just build a place where you do. If you don’t have a partner, find one you. And if you can’t, take one by force."

- Zero Two after Hiro explains his lack of partner

"Your taste makes my heart race. It bites and lingers...the taste of danger."

- Zero Two after licking Hiro

"I think I’ve taken a liking to you. How would you feel about being my darling?"

- Zero Two to Hiro

"Let me get a taste of you. After all...you are now my darling!"

- Zero Two declaring Hiro as her darling

"Its been a long time since I last saw a human cry."

- Zero Two after seeing Hiro’s tears

"Found you, my darling."

- Zero Two about Hiro

"Once we die, we’ll just become a statistic. It won’t matter what we were called. Just look at this lifeless city. There are no skies or oceans here. It's a one-way street to nowhere. A dead-end life."

- Zero Two to Hiro while life looking at the city

"Darling, wanna run away with me? I can get you out of here."

- Zero Two to Hiro as they look at the inner city

"What is human to you people?"

- Zero Two to Ichigo

"A kiss is something you share with your special someone. Is the one you kissed special to you?"

- Zero Two talking about a kiss with Ichigo

"Don’t worry. Well always be together until we die."

- Zero Two to Hiro after the partner shuffle

"The weak ones die. Big deal."

- Zero Two to 090 after his confrontation

"If you have anything you wanna say, you better spit it out while you can. Because you’re all going to die sooner or later."

- Zero Two to Ichigo, Miku, Kokoro and Ikuno during the Boys x Girls fight

"The leaving something behind part. My body can't do that. It's wonderful. You're all wonderful. You have the ability to decide your futures with your own hearts."

- Zero Two to Squad 13

"And you are me... As long as we have souls, I’m sure I will meet you again on Earth and we’ll pick up where we left off... I feel the same. I love you, darling."

- Zero Two’s last words before her death

Ichigo
"Maybe we can't win alone, but the two of us together can!"

- Ichigo to Goro after swimming in the klaxosaur to rescue him

"I...I love you, Hiro!"

- Ichigo to Hiro when she confessed

"I’m happy for them."

- Ichigo about Hiro and Zero Two

"But, you know, no one can swim in the same river water twice. We must choose our own path. Until then, our lives have just begun."

- Ichigo to Goro

Goro
"You are such a complete, utter fool!"

- Goro to Hiro about Hiro choosing to keep riding with Zero Two

"What do you mean, you feel bad? What do you mean, you want us to understand? Have you ever spared a thought for how the people close to you feel? You've always been like this: you run off, make your own decisions, and never stop to think about us. Papa and the adults are gone, but forget freedom, we've got our hands tied on every single thing. Have you stopped thinking about how worried we are about this? When someone collapses, all we can do is watch. And yet we're trying our damnest hard to live on! But here you are, running off to die. There are people doing all they can to support you because they want you to live. And you're trampling their feelings as you leave! What the hell do you want us to understand about you?!"

- Goro snapping at Hiro for wanting to go on a death mission

"That was never about how everyone felt. It was all about me. I'm the one scared of the world that I chose myself."

- Goro to Ichigo, about his rant earlier on

"This is the path we've chosen in order to live. You don't get to fight it, either."

- Goro to Hiro, after forgiving him

Zorome
"Hey! Nobody asked for a calm and composed analysis!"

- Zorome to Mitsuru

Miku
"No ordinary person has horns."

- Miku to Kokoro about Zero Two

Mitsuru
"I say Hiro's showing real integrity. It must be hard for him to face us after what happened, too. Spare a thought for how he feels."

- Mitsuru speaking sarcastically about Hiro

"If you place your hopes in anything, they will be betrayed. Promises will go unfulfilled and faith will let you down."

- Mitsuru to himself after dreaming about his broken childhood promise

"Sure, Hiro was special. Even among the double-digits, he was a cut above. We were all certain that he'd be our leader and show us the way. But reality had other ideas. Hiro couldn't become a parasite. He's not who he used to be. We must give up and cut our losses. I don't want to see this pathetic side of Hiro anymore."

- Mitsuru talking about Hiro to Ichigo

"Doesn’t it scare you to trust someone so much? You’re unbelievable."

- Mitsuru to Kokoro during their first sortie together in Genista

"I promise to protect Kokoro from now on."

- Mitsuru’s promise to Futoshi to protect Kokoro

"That’s what this is...I love Kokoro?"

- Mitsuru realizing his feelings for Kokoro

"Don’t decide things on your own. Lean on me more. I want to make you happy."

- Mitsuru to Kokoro

"Please don't say you have nothing. If you don't have anything, neither do I! But I've found my reason to live. I want to protect you and that baby's future. I'm a weakling! And I don't really understand what love is, either. But I can keep walking if I'm with you. That's what I've come to believe. Even without our memories, we can start over."

- Mitsuru reconciling with Kokoro

"I read an old book that said how you two feel means you love each other. We want our child, our Ai, to inherit that bond."

- Mitsuru to Hiro and Zero Two about Ai

Kokoro
"Do you know the language of flowers?"

- Kokoro to Mitsuru during the Boys x Girls fight

"In the past, having a baby was the most natural thing."

- Kokoro to Mitsuru about why humans stopped having children

"Mitsuru, you can rely on others more, you know. I'll believe in you, so believe in me too."

- Kokoro trying to comfort Mitsuru during their first sortie in Genista together

"We lived our lives believing our only purpose was to ride the FRANXX into battle. But you know what? That might not be true! We could carry new lives and leave them for the future. When I learned about that, I was very happy."

- Kokoro to Squad 13

"Is it wrong to create a new life? Are we not allowed to think of the future?"

- Kokoro to Mitsuru about having a child

"Together, we’ll find happiness."

- Kokoro to Mitsuru on their wedding day

"Why do you call my name even when it hurts you?"

- Kokoro to Mitsuru during the thunderstorm

"Look, there’s your papa."

- Kokoro to Ai, when Mitsuru arrives

"Thanks to Hiro and Zero Two, this planet go go back and start over from square one."

- Kokoro after Hiro and Zero Two’s sacrifice

Futoshi
"Will you promise to be my partner forever?!"

- Futoshi to Kokoro

Ikuno
"A pain. Even if it is, so what?!"

- Ikuno to Alpha after he berated Kokoro

"I love you, Ichigo."

- Ikuno confessing her love to Ichigo

Nana
"These children...they’re not like the others."

- Nana describing the squad after the bathroom fight

Hachi
"That feeling...is having it that wrong? The children’s sole purpose in life was to fight and if this is truly their final battle, and in their lives after, Don’t you think they’ll need someone like you."

- Hachi to Nana about the children’s future

Papa
"My children, you have had the good fortune to be chosen as parasites. Your great predecessors defended out cities and our people, and they splendidly took flight as our representatives. Turn your life into a blaze of glory and shed every last drop of blood you have. I pray that you will become a shining ray of hope for humanity."

- Papa to Squad 13 During the graduation ceremony

"VIRM will not die. I’m certain we will face each other again in the apex of evolution. As long as this universe contains a flicker of life."

- Papa to Hiro and Zero Two after the VIRM planet is destroyed

9’a
"Humans have evolved and cast their reproductive functions aside in the process. Reject that, and we'll all have to go back to conforming to one gender"

- Alpha to Kokoro about her ‘leaving a mark’

"The gender is a pain, an annoyance that's only tolerated to operate the FRANXX? And that's all it really is."

- Alpha criticizing Kokoro

"Humans have also cast away their tendency to be ruled by emotions like that because it serves zero purpose in life."

- Alpha to Ikuno after she slaps him

"Meeting you guys helped me a little about being human, but my home is the battlefield and no where else. Tell Iotahi for me. It’s been kinda fun, I guess."

- Alpha’s last words before his death

Klaxosaur Princess
"Damned human wannabes."

- 001 about VIRM after killing Tarsier

"Perhaps some lives only shine when in unison with others."

- 001 about Hiro and Zero Two’s bond

"Decide whether you want to fight or accept your ruin."

- 001’s last words before she sacrifices herself and entrusts the world’s fate to Hiro and Zero Two

Ai
"Papa, Darling, darling!"

- Ai to Mitsuru

"Mama?"

- Ai to Kokoro