Lunarito/Quotes

(After the vulture wakes Lunarito up by poking his shell, Manuelita looks at the spiked shell and gasps in fear at the sight of Lunarito's orange eyes. Lunarito, a large, obese, monstrous snapping turtle rises slowly out of his sleep and makes a stand.) "Did I mean to scare you, Manuelita?"

"Oh, Manuelita, I'm heartbroken. Don't you even remember me? I'm your friend Lunarito."

"Well, you may be forgotten me but I could never forget you."

(pulls the book off a shelf) "My memories, volume one details the miserable and terrible story of my childhood."

"Pehuajó. The village full of curiosity, friendship, love, peace and harmony. It's a very long time ago, when I was hatched out of the egg. I was a chubby little turtle full of thoughts and happiness. But nobody liked me but there's only one. A sweet and kind girl turtle with the rose hat I just met. And that's you."

"That's right, Manuelita, you're the one. Yes, you've fancied me the best. You blew me a kiss and I've fallen in love with you. We would frolic day after sunny day in the village sharing the emotional bond between you and me."

"Yeah. We were inseparable until then... he arrived and took you away from me... the one who is the son of the headmistress and the rival of MINE!"

"Yes, Bartolito! A new boy turtle you have met. The day when you and Bartolito go to school, I came up with the plan. I picked up the red rose flowers from the bush right in the middle of the forest and attempted to give them to you. By the time when those crooks took your backpack, Bartolito stood up to fight them and I've had a chance to win over your heart. I approached you from behind. I've made a bouquet of red rose flowers for you and you adored them. But, by then... HE caught your attention. While your head was turned, I had been rejected. One night, after you went off with him, those crooks came along. I was confused, ridiculed and brutally bullied by the same crooks. When I was humiliated, I've lost my temper, scare them off, and ran far away to live in the swamp of despair. Where I was shunned. Forgotten. Unloved. Unwanted. Alone."

"Oh, yes, it was awful. When I started to live in the swamp, there's a strange swamp gas emerged from the river what I got inhaled and then... growth spurt. I became so big, strong, tall... and I was very proud of my size and strength."

"The only thing that has kept me going all these years is my burning thirst for REVENGE and so I made my new home here... in the Louisiana bayou."