Hua Mulan Quotes in Mulan: Rise of a Warrior (2009)

Hua Mulan: Someone once said, go too far from home and you will lose your roots. Kill too many people and you will forget yourself. If you die in battle, your life will sink into the ground like rain and vanish without a trace. If at that time, you fall in love with someone, hope will blossom again from the earth and embrace life with passion. Wentai, thank you.

Wentai: Let's go away together! Doesn't matter where.

Hua Mulan: You once said, if you could give your life to end this war, you would do it.

Wentai: It's easy for me to give up my life, but it's too difficult to give up the woman I love.

Hua Mulan: In order that there be no more Tigers, that no more families end up with just a bloody dog tag...

Wentai: I understand.

[long pause]

Wentai: Forget about me.

Hua Mulan: For twelve years, every day I wake up on the battlefield, my first thought is of you. Knowing you are there gives me the courage to open my eyes. Forever after, it will still be the same every day.

Wentai: Your short temper in battle caused the death of so many of our men, can you see that?

Hua Mulan: It's all my fault. It's all on me. I shouldn't have gone to you, but I was terrified that you wouldn't come back. I've lost so many brothers, I can't bear to lose you.

Wentai: Your father was right. We cannot develop feelings in battle.

Hua Mulan: If you were me, wouldn't you have come?

Wentai: I wouldn't.

Hua Mulan: I don't want to fight any more. I don't want to be a General. I want to be a normal person.

Wentai: Who wants to fight? I also don't want to fight any more! If I could use my life to stop this battle, I would have done it a long time ago! The problem is, we cannot choose. Once you put on a General's armour, your life is no longer your own.

Hua Mulan: The General Hua you see before you is actually terrified of battle. I had been afraid and hiding all along. But I never thought my fear and hiding would cause the loss of the most important friend in my life. His departure lets me understand fleeing from the endless battles only makes us lose even more!

Hua Mulan: Today we will stain the battlefield with our blood. Behind us is our homeland. If we have to bleed out our last drop of blood, if we have to become bleached bones in this desert, we must defend it to the death! We must let the Rourans know we Wei warriors will never surrender and will never compromise! Soldiers may rebel against me, generals may leave me for dead, but I, Hua Mulan, will never betray my country!

Hua Mulan: I never imagined I would achieve any accomplishments, not to mention that one day I would become a butcher on the battlefield. In these twelve years, my heart has never felt at ease. Princess, only when we resolve the cause of this war can we stop the war itself. Your own fate as well as that of the whole world is in your hands.

Hua Mulan: What are you doing? Give it back!

[referring to dogtags Fei Xiaohu tore down]

Fei Xiaohu: Are you living for the dead or for the living?

Hua Mulan: Give them back!

Fei Xiaohu: There are things you must do! It's your duty! You are no longer the Sister Mulan I adored. Because you wanted to escape, you caused the death of Brother Wentai, and you will cause the death of many of our brothers in the future. You are so selfish!