“Am I good? Who do you think you're asking? You will be crying all the way as you run behind me the whole race!”
Meiling Li Quotes
1 quote from Cardcaptor Sakura, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
1 quote from Cardcaptor Sakura, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
“Am I good? Who do you think you're asking? You will be crying all the way as you run behind me the whole race!”
Sakura asks why she would be crying. Meiling has offered tears as an obvious consequence of running behind her, but the predicted humiliation needs an explanation before it can intimidate its intended audience. She has to specify frustration. That extra step makes the boast weaker. A question about whether she runs well receives no account of endurance, preparation, or experience; it receives a story about how badly Sakura will feel. Meiling is more interested in controlling the other runner's imagined response than in answering the practical question. The weakness belongs to the particular form her confidence takes. It requires Sakura to accept an emotional script along with the claim of superiority. Sakura's literal question briefly refuses that script, leaving Meiling to explain why being behind her should be so devastating.