Top 60 Axie Oh Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am the maker of my own destiny.”

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2. “I’ve never seen anything more beautiful. I’ve never seen anything more terrifying.”

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3. “If you only trust yourself, it could be fun.”

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4. “And there is no hope, because love can’t be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given. And I have given my heart to someone, but he is not the Sea God.”

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5. “Not all storytellers are grandmothers, but all grandmothers are storytellers.”

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6. “Wait for me,” he says, “where the land meets the sea.”

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7. “Humans tell myths to explain what they cannot understand.”

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8. “Stories are both an escape from the truths of the world and the only way to see them clearly.”

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9. “A tall, not very frightening, honourable god without a soul. How did my fate get entangled with his?”

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10. “Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.”

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11. “Sometimes you don’t find family in your own blood, but elsewhere.”

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12. “Shim Cheong might be the most beautiful girl in the village but her face is a curse.”

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13. “Sometimes, only through a story can a truth be heard.”

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14. “I’m saying, people do strange things to protect their hearts. But when you’re afraid, your heart is closed, and it’s never the right time, but when your heart is open, and you’re willing to be brave enough to take a chance, the time is always right.”

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15. “My fate is not yours to decide. My fate belongs to me.”

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16. “Have new experiences, make new friends. I promise you can get the life you want now, if you just live in it.”

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17. “The closer I get, the further away she seems. Until I’m right next to her, and she’s as far away as the stars.”

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18. “I don’t think love can be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”

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19. “There are many pathways destiny can take.”

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20. “And never was it for anyone’s sake but my own. I couldn’t endure in a world where I did nothing, where I let those I love suffer and be hurt. If I had stayed home, if I had never run after Joon, if I had never jumped into the sea, there would have been such a hole in my heart- the emptiness of having done nothing at all.”

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21. “You can’t aim to please everyone, you can only aim to please yourself.”

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22. “That’s just like a human to think the world revolves around you, to think the rivers are for you, the sky, the sea is for you. You are just one of the many parts of the world, and in my opinion, the one that blights them all.”

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23. “That there is no place you can go so far away from forgiveness. Not from someone who loves you.”

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24. “You make me happy. The ducks in the pond make me happy. The clear skies, the calm sea, the lasting peace. All of this makes me happy.”

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25. “We will always love you, because you are ours. You are our sea, and our storms and our sunlight breaking out over a new day. You are our hope. We’ve been waiting for you for such a long time. Come back to us. Please come back.”

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26. “Something crafted with so much love could never sink.”

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27. “The elders say Shim Cheong was fashioned by the Goddess of Creation to be the Sea God’s final bride, the one to ease all his sorrows and usher in a new era of peace in the kingdom. She has skin forged from the purest of pearls. She has hair stitched from the deepest night. She has lips colored by the blood of men.”

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28. “After all, a true musician doesn’t just perform a song but makes you feel something. And it’s clear with how my heart aches from the memory and the music, he has the spark. I want to ask him where it comes from, and how can I find it for myself.”

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29. “I apologize for many things, but mostly I apologize for making the weight you carry a little heavier.”

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30. “I was angry at the fate I’d been given. Because I realised that in order for you to have what you want, I’d have to lose the only thing I’ve ever wanted.”

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31. “But strange, Mina, why do I feel like this? I don’t need a Red String or Fate to tell me that if you should die, so will I.”

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32. “When I look at Kirin, I see only him, a bright light in the darkness. When he looks at me, he sees only the darkness.”

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33. “I was twelve years old, and I could feel the hours of our childhood slipping through my fingers like sand in the sea.”

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34. “I love them.” It sounds like a confession, and I realize- haltingly- that it is. Whenever I ran through the rice fields, the long-necked cranes billowing their great wings as if in greeting; whenever I climbed the cliffs, the breeze urging me onward; whenever I looked out to the sea, the sunlight on the water like laughter, I felt love. I felt loved. How could the gods abandon those who love them?”

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35. “The Sea God isn’t angry, Mina. He’s lost. He’s waiting, in his palace far beyond this world, for someone brave enough to find him.”

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36. “Which makes me wonder how much of storytelling is embedded in the land and it’s people, a consciousness that we all believe in and share.”

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37. “Look Shin, I found your soul.” I lift my palm. At the center sits the pebble with the carving of the lotus flower... “It might not be as large as a mountain or as bright as the moon, but it’s your soul. It’s strong, resilient, and steadfast. And stubborn. And worthy, just as you are.”

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38. “You left the house though I forbade it,” he says. “Didn’t you hear what the fox goddess said? My life is tied to yours. If you die, so shall I. You may not care for my life, but you should at least have a care for your own. There are many things in this realm that could kill a weak human like yourself.”

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39. “In order to remain a human you’d have to tie your life to an immortal. I may not be the god of a river, a mountain, or a lake but I am a god, and I would tie my life to yours, if you’ll have me.”

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40. “Who would dare attack Lotus House?” Namgi says loudly. “Tell me, and I will go and hunt them down, tear them limb from limb. Destroy their homes, their sons, their goats, if they have them –.”

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41. “There’s something I must do, somewhere I must go. Will you wait here? Do you trust me?” He doesn’t answer me at first, watching me with his sea-dark eyes. Then he smiles, a small quirk of the lips. “With my soul.”

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42. “Love is a country. It’s vast and endless and full of an unbreakable hope. Maybe this love is a love that’s worth dying for, I don’t know. All I know is that it’s worth living for, again and again.”

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43. “Don’t be foolish, girl. Nothing in this world is ever freely given.”

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44. “Your story has been told over and over again, by everyone but you, I might have jumped into the sea to save Joon, but it was your hesitation that gave me the courage. With everyone and everything pushing you toward the Sea God and a fate not of your choosing, you looked back to what you wanted. And because of that, to me, you are the Sea God’s bride. The girl who, by saving herself, saves the world.”

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45. “Because the people who live for tomorrow don’t take risks. They’re afraid of the consequences. While the people who live for today have nothing to lose, so they fight tooth and nail.”

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46. “This is why I don’t like read receipts. It’s like psychological warfare. He knows I know that he read my message and chose not to respond.”

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47. “I am not your bride,” I say gently. “Not truly. You don’t love me, nor I you. We are fated, but not in this way.”

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48. “Then there are girls like my sister, who want to be the Sea God’s bride because it hurts too much to be themselves.”

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49. “Your people suffer not because of any great will of the gods, but because of their own violent acts. They wage the wars that burn the forests and fields. They spill the blood that pollutes the rivers and streams. To blame the gods is to blame the land itself. Look upon your reflection to find your enemy.”

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50. “If cellists have fan clubs, Jenny, I want to join yours.”

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