The Dark Crystal (1982) · 21 quotes
But Gelfling all dead! Garthim kill them all! You can't be Gelfling! You look like Gelfling... smell like Gelfling... maybe you are Gelfling!
Aughra
A thousand years ago, there was a Great Conjunction. I was there. Three suns lined up. That's when the Crystal cracked. That's when the Skeksis appeared, and the Mystics. Another Great Conjunction coming up! Anything could happen. Whole world might burn up. [snorts] End of Aughra! Hm!
Aughra
The Great Conjunction is the end of the world! Or the beginning. Hm! End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Aughra
Stupid Garthim! You want Gelfling? Why not ask me?! No — easier to send your crab-brained soldiers, burn my home! Now home gone, Gelfling gone — nothing but Aughra! Mouldy mildew, mother of mouthmuck, dangle and strangle and death!
I'm looking for Aughra.
Aughra
Who sent you?
My master, wisest of the Mystics.
Aughra
Where is he? Around here?
He's dead.
Aughra
Could be anywhere, then.
Are you Aughra?
Aughra
Are you afraid of me? Think I'm going to EAT YOU?! Hmm? What do you want of me?
A shard. A Crystal shard.
Aughra
That's all you want? A Crystal shard? Hmph! [to vines] Drop him.
Watch your tongue, harridan! We are lords of the Crystal!
Aughra
Lords? Not for long! What about the prophecy, that a Gelfling will end Skeksis power? [sitting down on the ground] He'll come! Make you crawl, like the worms you are!
Aughra
"What was sundered and undone shall be whole, the two made one."
And now the prophecy is fulfilled. We are again one. [Jen carries Kira's dead body in his arms] Many ages ago, in our arrogance and delusion, we shattered the pure Crystal and our world split apart. Your courage and sacrifice have made us whole, and restored the true power of the Crystal. [about Kira's dead body] Hold her to you. She is part of you, as we all are part of each other. [Kira revives] Now we leave you the Crystal of Truth. Make your world in its light.
[The urSkeks vanish]
