# Prince of Persia (2008 video game)

Prince of Persia is an action-adventure and platforming video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. The game was written by Andrew Walsh and it is part of the Prince of Persia series.

## Quotes

* The wind is free, but the sand goes where it is blown. Unaware of the world around it. Whirling on the breath of the Gods, at the mercy of the storm that engulfs it. What is one grain of sand in the desert? One grain amongst the storm?
** Narrator

### Dialogue

    Elika: I just want to know that I can rely on you... people can... well they can…
    Prince: And you have a lot of experience with people?
    Elika: I have experience of men doing stupid things for women!
    Prince: Well I only ever do stupid things for myself
    Prince: You're an attractive lady.
    Elika: I've got a brain too.
    Prince: Pity you're wasting both!
    Elika: And you're the one to lecture me on that?
    Prince: I've good looks and brain then?
    Elika: One you rely on too much and the one you don't use at all!
    Prince: There is nothing wrong with a good look!
    Elika: Gold glitters, but it's what you buy with it that counts.
    Prince: The corrupted sold their souls? What's the going rate?
    Prince: We'll be fine… I hope…
    Elika: I'm alright… it's nothing…
    Prince: It looks like it…
    Prince: Say, the next time you want to win your daughter back, you could just try giving her a pony, the apocalypse doesn't really cut it!
    Prince: I hope that hurt!
    Elika: He can't hear you.
    Prince: He can't?! And you're an ugly mother too!
    [Elika gives him a look]
    Prince: What?
    Prince: See, you don't always have to wait for things; you have to make things happen!
    Elika: Is that so?
    Prince: Look around you, we could die in the next five minutes, then where would waiting have got you? I'd rather die trying than waiting…
    Elika: Maybe you're right… if you want something… if you REALLY want something, you shouldn’t wait…
    Prince: Yeah?
    Elika: So? What are we waiting for? [walks away]
    Prince: Scary guy this alchemist then?
    Elika: He can make the corruption act for him, he shapes it, makes it become what he wishes.
    Prince: There was a potter I knew like that… oh the things she could do with her hands.
    Prince: Hrrm… imagine this, full of water, surrounded by nature, your own private oasis in the middle of desert, hey Princess?
    Elika: That's me! All about excess!
    Prince: Did you have your own hand maidens too?
    Elika: You can feed that part of your imagination yourself!
    Prince: Run, jump, ... die, repeat..., run, jump, ... die, repeat... I'm starting to get the hang of this...
    Prince: Much more of this and I might start talking to myself... No you won't... No, I might, really.
    Prince: Anything else you think you should be telling me?
    Elika: You're an idiot.
    Elika: Patience brings its own rewards.
    Prince: So does walking into a harem covered in chocolate.
    Prince: Why did you have cages in your town square.
    Elika: How do you think we scared our children? 'Be good, or you'll go in the cage and Ahriman will get you'.
    Prince: For real?
    Elika: We held animals in there for market, you idiot.
    [Prince jumps off the tower and Elika saves him]
    Elika: You idiot.
    Prince: I knew you'd catch me.
    Elika: What if I was unconscious?
    Prince: ...I didn't think of that.
    Prince: You can't act like this. Giving up now is like you didn't even care that you lost those things.
    Elika: That's a good speech. Where'd you pick it up?
    Prince: Two silver coins from a fortune-teller in Babylon.
    Elika: Why are you doing this? Why are you helping me? You're not doing it for me, are you? I've seen how you look at me... I've seen that look before...
    Prince: Now look, you're cute, but not 'stay to fight a dark god' cute.
    Elika: Would you have helped... if my father had asked you?
    Prince: He's not that cute either.
    Elika: Wow compared to you I'm a saint!
    Prince: Hey, I've helped many little old ladies in my day.
    Elika: Yeah only if they had attractive daughters.
    Prince: Then I helped them too!
    Prince: Want to play a game? Come on, it'll be fun!
    Elika: The World's about to end and you want to play a game?!
    Prince: Might as well die happy.
    Elika: What sort of game is this?
    Prince: Well, I see something and you have to guess what it is.
    Elika: How can I guess that?
    Prince: You just guess.
    Elika: Grass.
    Prince: No.
    Elika: Rock.
    Prince: No.
    Elika: This is a stupid game.
    Prince: Want another go?
    Elika: No... Path.
    Prince: No.
    Elika: This is impossible!
    Prince: The game would be easier if we played it by the rules.
    Elika: There are rules?
    Prince: Yeah. I tell you the first letter.
    Elika: Then why didn't you do that?
    Prince: You didn't give me a chance.
    Elika: *sigh* Can we get to the Fertile Ground?..
    Prince: S.
    Elika: Are you still playing that game?
    Prince: S.
    Elika: Sky.
    Prince: Hey! You got it! Okay, your turn.
    Prince: Come on, your turn.
    Elika: For what? Uhm... C.
    Prince: Corruption.
    Elika: Yes. Can we go on?
    Prince: S.
    Elika: Sky again?
    Prince: Now you're getting it!
    Elika: You picked 'sky' again?
    Prince: No, but you're getting the hang of the rules.
    Elika: Ah, thanks, they're so complex I was worried they might evade me.
    Prince: S.
    Elika: Scar.
    Prince: No.
    Elika: Scarf??
    Prince: No.
    Elika: Shrine?
    Prince: Aha! No.
    Elika: I give up.
    Prince: It's too soon to give up.
    Elika: I give up!
    Prince: Soulless Follower of Ahriman!
    Elika: I am amazed no one threw you overboard on your sea trips.
    Prince: G.
    Elika: Are you still playing?
    Prince: G!
    Elika: Gauntlet.
    Prince: Yes!
    Elika: You wanna make this game harder?
    Prince: Wanna play the game again for forfeits?
    Elika: No.
    Prince: Ugh. I wish I hadn't eaten that curry goat.
    Prince: Girl falling down the sky, should have taken that as a sign. Nothing is that easy.
    Elika: If you need any consolation, I was glad you were there to land on.
    Prince: Nice collection of dust you have here.
    Prince: I'm not here. Someone else is doing this crazy stuff.
    Prince: And I thought today was going to be a quiet day.
    Elika: Huh, you should've changed your fortune teller.
    Prince: How did I get into this...and what is this that I've got into?
    Prince: This place is the back of the back of beyond.
    Prince: Is this an average day for you?
    Elika: Does it look like it?
    Prince: He isn't exactly polite; he barely knows us and he's trying to kill us.
    Prince: Sure, climb up the roof. It's not like gravity killed anyone.
    Prince: [astonished] You're good!
    Elika: Better than you know.
    Elika: [pointing to the Hunter] He needs to get away from there!
    Prince: Hey! Get away from there!
    [the Hunter descends to them]
    Prince: There you go.
    Elika: No, here we go.
    Prince: Oh oh.
    [after defeating the enemy]
    Prince: Now that should teach you something!
    Prince: Aw! Don't pull so hard!
    Prince: Sharp sword and empty horizon. Sometimes that's all a man needs... sometimes.
    Prince: Anything to eat around here? I'm getting hungry.
    Prince: How do I get myself into these messes?
    Prince: Heard about magic, talked about magic. Never seen it before.
    Prince: There's more adventure here than in your average life span.
    Prince: I had to get here 200 years after civilization left.
    Prince: This day is gonna age me a month.
    Prince: I should have listened more to my mother.
    Prince: These trousers were new!
    Prince: Temple, yes. Altar girls and gold, no. This place needs a lot of work.
    Prince: Temple guards, pirates, crazed mobs... huh, those were the good times.
    Prince: I like your top.
    Elika: I think I have a spare if you'd like it.
    Prince: Corruption... looks bad, feels bad... smells terrible.
    Prince: Ready to face certain death again?
    Prince: Ah, I'm really starting to feel this in my shoulders. You couldn't give my a back rub, could you?
    Elika: That's right; I couldn't.
    Prince: Settle down, find a girl, adventuring will kill you. I think my mother was right.
    Prince: Gods, monsters, crazy women... [laughs] What's the difference?
    Prince: I hope that smell isn't me... or you.
    Prince: This place is crazier than a boat shop in a desert town.
    Prince: Ahriman, Ormazd, corruption, corrupted. Why couldn't I have fallen in a canyon full of lost amazons?
    Prince: More of this and I'll be wearing out my gauntlet.
    Elika: Where did you get that thing anyway?
    Prince: Oh, you know... just... found it.
    Prince: Rocks dropped on me, monsters coming from the grounds, dark gods... What did I do wrong?
    Prince: [starts humming] Doo doo doo... Oh sorry, I forgot you were there.
    Prince: Do corruption stains come out?
    Prince: Well they said I couldn't find my own donkey in a sandstorm, well here I am and proving them right.
    Prince: Oh, you're heavier than you look!
    Prince: I think we just found another way to get killed. Is this ever going to stop?
    Prince: It's much nicer now; nothing’s trying to kill us.
    Prince: Nice little trap… shall we take the bait again?
    Prince: How are you gonna spend your day? Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm gonna get eaten?
    [the Hunter comes down from the windmill]
    Prince: Finally something I can hit!
    Prince: Dying is easy, staying alive is hard. But I like the challenge.
    Prince: There are plenty of ways to get killed in this place.
    Prince: I'm going to have blisters on my blisters by the time we finish.
    Prince: I'm trying not to think. If I realize what's happening here, I might just lose it.
    Prince: Do you believe it? I've still got sand in my shoes… and worse places!
    Prince: You're pretty fit for a princess.
    Prince: Much more running! I'm gonna need new shoes and new feet!
    Prince: Here I am fighting someone else's war. The one thing that I didn't want to do with my life.
    [at the corrupted Temple]
    Prince: When I die I want to come to a place exactly… unlike this.
    Prince: You don't act like a princess.
    Elika: How do princesses act?
    Prince: All the money, none of the sense. Don't know which end of a camel eat and which end-
    Elika: I know which end of a camel does what.
    Prince: A princess. A real princess.
    Elika: What about you? Who are you?
    Prince: There's not a lot to tell.
    Prince: Your turn to tell me something.
    Elika: You've still not said where you got the gold.
    Prince: I found it.
    Elika: You found it... You're a thief!
    Prince: I'm an adventurer.
    Elika: You're a thief!
    Prince: I reclaim abandoned property.
    Prince: I was a few days from here. I'd heard rumours of a tomb. A little bit of digging, a small amout of hiding and... Forget one donkey. I could've loaded twenty, thirty... If those guards hadn't turned up. Still, I got away with enough to keep life pleasurable for a few more years.
    Elika: You robbed the dead?!
    Prince: It's a lot easier than robbing the living...
    Prince: [to himself] Why am I being punished? Sure, I took a little gold, but the owner had been dead for three hundred years. It's not like he was going to do anything with it.
    Elika: Who's out there waiting for you?
    Prince: Whole world full of people.
    Elika: Is there no one you've got close to?
    Prince: Trust yourself and you don't need to.
    Elika: Trusting your own judgement can get lonely.
    Prince: You rely on someone else, they'll just let you down.
    Elika: You haven't let me down.
    Prince: You haven't known me long enough.
    Elika: Tell me about your family.
    Prince: I don't have a family.
    Elika: Well, you come from somewhere.
    Prince: Yes, and I'm going somewhere else.
    Prince: You had to pick this religion? You couldn't have picked one where all the evil creatures were I don't know... slightly angry sheep?
    Prince: This part looks a bit tricky.
    Elika: Worried that you may break a nail?
    Prince: Now that’s humor.
    Prince: Keep your eyes open.
    Elika: Why are you so jumpy?
    Prince: I'm not jumpy. There's 'quiet' and 'too quiet'.
    Elika: Everything looks quiet.
    Prince: Don't say it's quiet, don't ever say it's quiet.
    Prince: Now what?
    Elika: That way, on the plate.
    Prince: Have you guys never heard of stairs?
    Prince: You know, I've thought about settling down… Milling flour for a living.
    Elika: Really?
    Prince: (laughs) Are you kidding? How boring would that be?!
    Prince: I've never seen a girl… you know… do… what you do…
    Elika: You must have been looking for girls in the wrong places.
    Prince: I thought this was all a legend!
    Elika: I thought this was all there was.
    [when the Hunter made them drop down]
    Prince: You think you got us? You think it's easy? We're coming back for you!
    [Prince stays silent for a few seconds]
    Prince: … If we can find a way out of here.
    [to Elika]
    Prince: Here take my hand. Hey, take all of me!
    [at the last battle with the Alchemist]
    Prince: Hey, I'm a legend! I'll live forever anyway!
    [the Prince stays silent for a second]
    Prince: Wow… that sounded better in my head than out loud.
    Prince: Now it's your turn. Tell me something about you.
    Elika: Like what?
    Prince: I don't know… something like… your last boyfriend?
    Elika: Never had one.
    Prince: Never?
    Elika: Never.
    Prince: If you never had a boyfriend… then…
    Elika: I'm very well read.
    Prince: But sometimes it's better to experience in person.
    Prince: Well, here we are… the both of us… in the dark
    [the shadow monsters screech]
    Elika: Saved by the yell.
    [after the Prince fell]
    Elika: Watch your footing.
    Prince: I did; I watched it fall away.
    Elika: In Ormazd his name…
    Prince: That's it, keep praying; keep praying for the both of us! It's very generous of you to risk my life for your God!
    Ahriman: She is dead. Dead for eternity, but I will be free.
    Ahriman: I shall be free. Where then will the light be? What candle will shine in the darkness now that she is gone?
    Ahriman: The power of this place wanes, and when I am free, she will already have been forgotten.
    Ahriman: She has blinded you with her light, burned you with her will until it became yours. Reclaim your destiny.
    Ahriman: What injury have I done to you that you have not done to me?
    Elika: You rob the graves!
    Prince: It's called Tomb Raiding.
    [after Prince being rescued by Elika]
    Prince: You have a good grip.
    Elika: I've been practising.
    [after Prince being rescued by Elika]
    Prince: That was tickling.
    [after entering the reservoir]
    Elika: We're trapped.
    Prince: And you didn't think of that before we came down into a giant bowl.