2 quotes from Magic Knight Rayearth, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
“Time is of little consequence to the heart. Even if our time together has been brief... and even if I know only a little bit about them... it only means I have more to look forward to in our friendship.”
“Rescue the princess and save the world from destruction. This is actually a rather familiar story, don't you think?”
Fuu says this over a map Mokona has just conjured, after Umi lists the legendary armor and the weapons that evolve and decides they must be in some kind of role-playing game. Umi answers "Yeah, but this is reality," and Hikaru turns out never to have played a video game at all. It plays as genre awareness. It commits Fuu to more than she knows. If the story is familiar, its ending ought to be too, and six episodes later the first season sends the girls home, in the words of Anime News Network's Blu-ray review, "more depressed than satisfied." In the second season Lantis supplies the reason: the princess summoned the Magic Knights while wishing for her own annihilation. Fuu read the template correctly. What she missed was who had chosen it for them, and why.
Caldina asks a mercenary's question: would Fuu really risk her life for "a couple chicks you just met"? Anime News Network's Blu-ray review sums Caldina up as money-motivated, so the question is about cost. Fuu answers about feelings, and the answer goes soft. Turning "I hardly know them" into "more to look forward to" is a greeting-card move; it converts a fair objection into a reason to feel good without ever addressing it. It does not sound much like Fuu either, whose usual register is the dry aside (the monster "was angry to begin with") or a precise correction of Umi's theories. The speech gets better at the very end, in the sentence this excerpt leaves out: "I want to fight with them." That is a decision, short and specific. Everything before it is preamble, and it happens to be the part built for quoting.