Replacement Goldfish/Quotes

This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of a goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

—Survivor

I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again.

—'Commissioner Pravin Lal - "Time of Bereavement", Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

What am I, some sort of Gadolt substitute!?

—Reyn, in response to all his Ship Tease with Sharla, Xenoblade Chronicles.

If I die, I can be replaced.

—Ayanami Rei on several occasions, Neon Genesis Evangelion. (Turns out she's right, too.)

In a glen beyond the castle wall
There was a tinker
And he was a thinker
The smartest man in all the world
He made a mechanical girl
For you see, his daughter passed away that summer
And though he knew he could not replace her

He missed his family

—Voltaire, "The Mechanical Girl"