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Stupid question - where’s that quote from? It rings a bell but I can’t place it.

It is one of my very favorite quotes that made me stop and smile like a fool. It’s from ME3 when Garrus and Vega are in the mess hall area trying to one-up each other.

Full convo (because any excuse to post it is a good excuse, and I’ve been wanting to keep it for reference.)

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James: What’s the matter, Vakarian? You chicken?

Garrus: I don’t even know what that is — though I’ve heard everything in the galaxy tastes like it. But if you’re suggesting I’m scared.. game on Vega.

James: Age before wisdom.

Garrus: Okay. Back in my C-Sec days I busted a Batarian spy ring that was trying to assassinate a councilor.

James: Please, I fought off a dozen angry Bakarians on Omega single-handedly. Used one of them as a landing pad off a three story jump.

Garrus: Just warming up, seeing what you had. Now: I tracked down this guy… Saren. Stopped him from raising a Geth army and unleashing the Reapers three years ago.

James: Doesn’t count. You did that with Shepard.

Garrus: Your’e right. I was with Shepard. From the very beginning.

James: That just means you’re old.

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Garrus: You still think you can win this, huh?

James: I can do this all day, Scars.

Garrus: Funny you mention those. Ever hear the name Archangel?

James: I might’ve.

Garrus: You know you have. I’m Archangel.

James: Maybe I heard something about that too.

Garrus: Hm, then maybe you also heard that for a couple of months there, the crime rate on Omega mysteriously dropped while Archangel did a little “housecleaning.”

James: So you ran a cleaning service on Omega? Back on Fehl Prime, I uncovered a pair of Harvesters. Had to kill them. By myself.

Garrus: Two wormnecks… that’s almost impressive.

James: Oh that’s not even the best part. They left behind an egg. It hatched, and I trained it to let me fly it.

Garrus: Heh, The Alliance teach you to make up crap like that, or did you figure it out all by yourself?

James: It’s a gift.

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James: You’ve been through a lot, Scars.

Garrus: You giving up?

James: Nah, I got more. Just don’t like to talk about it.

Garrus: Fair enough… we’ve all got one of those.

James: Just one, huh?

Garrus: Yeah. Not every story has a happy ending.

James: Except there was this one time I teamed up with a Turian named Garrus Vakarian.. He was pretty good with a gun, but he thought he was some kind of hotshot.

Garrus: Yeah.. Yeah I knew this wise-ass marine named Jimmy Vega - sounds like a pole dancer on Omega - always got on my nerves.. But the kid was all right. Had guts when it counted.

James: And together they cured the genophage.

Garrus: And stopped Cerberus from taking over the Citadel.

James: And finally kicked the Reapers from this galaxy and into the next.

Garrus: With a little help from their friends.

James: Nah, it was just us. But mostly me.