- Mugger: So you really think I could be a good masseur?
- Uncle Iroh: Of course.
- Mugger: This is so great. No one has ever believed in me.
- Uncle Iroh: While it is always best to believe in one's self, a little help from others can be a great blessing.
- [cut to Iroh on a hilltop under a tree. He builds a makeshift altar and places a picture against it]
- Uncle Iroh: Happy birthday, my son. If only I could have helped you.
- Uncle Iroh: [sings, crying] Leaves from the vine/ falling so slow/ like fragile, tiny shells/ drifting in the foam/ Little soldier boy/ come marching home/ Brave soldier boy/ comes marching home.
- Madame Macmu-Ling: Five, seven then five syllables mark a Haiku. remarkable oaf.
- Sokka: They call me Sokka, that is, in the Water Tribe. I am not an oaf.
- [Students laugh]
- Madame Macmu-Ling: Chittering monkey. in the spring he climbs treetops, and thinks himself tall.
- [Students Ooh]
- Sokka: You think you're so smart, with your fancy little words. this is not so hard.
- [Students Ooh louder]
- Madame Macmu-Ling: Whole seasons are spent, mastering the form, the style. None calls it easy.
- Sokka: I calls it easy, like I paddle my canoe. I'll paddle yours, too.
- [Students laugh again]
- Madame Macmu-Ling: There's nuts and there's fruits. In the fall the clinging plumb drops, always to be squashed.
- [steps on a plumb]
- Sokka: Squish, sqaush, sling that slang, I'm always right back at ya like my... boomerang.
- [pulls out his boomerang in her face]
- Sokka: That's right, I'm Sokka. It's pronounced with an Okka. Young ladies, I rocked ya!
- [counting fingers realizing his last line had 6 syllables, not 5]
- Security guard: Uh, that's one too many syllables there, bub.
- [picks up Sokka and throws him out]
- Sokka: [hits the ground with a disgusted look on his face] Poetry.
- Toph: One of the good things about being blind is that I don't have to waste my time worrying about appearances. I don't care what I look like. I'm not looking for anyone's approval. I know who I am.
- Katara: That's what I really admire about you, Toph. You're so strong and confident and self-assured. And I know it doesn't matter, but... you're really pretty.
- Toph: I am?
- Katara: Yeah, you are.
- Toph: I'd return the compliment, but I have no idea what you look like. Thank you, Katara.
- Mugger: [standing knock-kneed] You. Give me all your money.
- Uncle Iroh: What are you doing?
- Mugger: I'm mugging you.
- Uncle Iroh: With that stance?
- Prince Zuko: Uncle, we have a problem. One of the customers is on to us. Don't look now, but there is a girl over there at the corner table, she knows we're Fire Nation.
- [Uncle looks at the girl]
- Prince Zuko: Didn't I say don't look?
- Uncle Iroh: You are right, Zuko. I've seen that girl in here quite a lot. Seems to me she has quite a little crush on you.
- Prince Zuko: What?
- [Iroh has just stopped to watch a group of boys play when a ball is accidently kicked through a window]
- Uncle Iroh: [to the boys] It is usually best to admit mistakes when they occur, and to seek to restore honor...
- Angry Man: [coming to the window] When I'm through with you kids, the window won't be the only thing that's broken.
- Uncle Iroh: ...but not this time. Run!