44 Spirited Away Quotes (2026) #2

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Zeniba: [about Yubaba] We're identical twins and exact opposites.

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[in Japanese]
Zeniba: I'd like to help you, dear, but there's nothing I can do. It's one of our rules here. You've got to take care of your parents and that dragon boyfriend of yours, on your own.
Chihiro: But, um, can't you even give me a hint? I feel like Haku and I met, a long time ago.
Zeniba: In that case, it's easy.

Nothing that happens is ever forgotten, even if you can't remember it.

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Zeniba: [Giving Chihiro a hair tie] It will protect you. It's made from the threads your friends wove together.

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No-Face: [offering a bowl of food] Try this. It's delicious. Want some gold? I'm not giving it to anybody else!
[approaching her]
No-Face: Come closer, Sen. What would you like? Just name it.
Chihiro: I would like to leave, sir; there's some place I need to go to right away, please. You should go back to where you came from.

Yubaba doesn't want you in the bath house any longer. Where is your home? Don't you have any friends or family?
No-Face: [sulking] No... no... I'm lonely... I'm lonely.
Chihiro: [backing away] What is it that you want?
No-Face: I want Sen... I want Sen...
[shoving a handful of gold in front of her]

No-Face: Take the gold! Take it!
Chihiro: Are you going to eat me?
No-Face: Take it!
[Boh bites him]
No-Face: Huh? Ow.
[attempts to swat Boh, but misses]
Chihiro: If you want to eat me, eat this first. I was going to save it for my parents, but I think you'd better have

it.
[feeds No-Face the medicine. No-Face starts to vomit everywhere]
No-Face: ...Sen! Sen, what did you do to me?

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Lin: Sen! I'm sorry I called you a dope before... I take it back!

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Zeniba: I'm sorry my sister turned you parents into pigs, but there's nothing I can do. Its just the way things are. You'll have to help your parents and Haku by yourself. Use what you remember about them.
Chihiro: What? Can't you please give me more help than that? It feels like I met Haku, but it was a long time ago...
Zeniba:

That's a good start! Once you've met someone you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.

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No-Face: Hey, boss! It's me! I'm hungry! Why don't you wake everyone up?

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Lin: [spots Chihiro in the boiler room] A human! You're in trouble! You're the one everyone's been looking for!
Kamaji: [calmly eating his lunch] She's my granddaughter.
Lin: *Grand-daughter?*

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Frog Spirit: Lin...
Lin: What?
[pushes Chihiro into the elevator to keep her from being seen]
Frog Spirit: I smell something... a human! You smell like a human!
Lin: Oh, really.
Frog Spirit: You're hiding something, Lin. Come on, spit it out.
Lin: [producing a roasted newt on a stick] Is this what you

smell?
Frog Spirit: Roasted newt!

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Aogaeru: [after being spit out by No-Face] What an esophagus!

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Door Knocker: Aren't you even going to knock? You're the most pathetic little girl I've ever seen.

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Yubaba: [to Haku] What did you do with my baby?

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Zeniba: [Haku breaks the paper bird she came in] Oh, paper cut!
[Splits in two and disappears]

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Chihiro's Father: Look, Chihiro! There's your new school!
Chihiro's Mother: It doesn't look so bad.
Chihiro: It's gonna stink. I liked my old school.

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Chihiro: What are all those stones? They look like little houses.
Chihiro's Mother: Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

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[first lines]
Chihiro: [reading a card] I'll miss you, Chihiro. Your best friend, Rumi.

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Lin: Sen! Sen, where are you?
Chihiro: [from beside the Stink Spirit] Over here!
Lin: Don't worry... stay right where you are, I'm coming to get you! You're gonna be fine, I won't let him hurt you.
Chihiro: I think he needs help! It feels like there's a thorn in his side!