Spy x Family Quotes

"Waku waku!"

Anya's catchphrase of excitement, first heard in episode 1 when she learns Loid is a spy. The Japanese onomatopoeia for excitement became the series' most memed line.

"Anya likes this family."

Anya's plain answer during a fake 'kidnapping' Loid stages to test her in episode 5, in which he asks if she wants a different family. It stops Loid cold and marks the point where the fake family starts becoming real.

"A world where children don't have to cry. That's the kind of world I want to build."

Loid's stated reason for being a spy, recalled in episode 1 as he considers giving up on Anya. His memories of losing everything as a war orphan drive his mission for peace between Westalis and Ostania.

"Heh."

Anya's smug little laugh whenever her mind-reading lets her get one over on an adult, starting with the first time she reads Loid's thoughts. It became the series' most-shared reaction face.

"I'm not sure how this is going to go, but I'll do my best to be a good father to you."

Loid's quiet promise to a sleeping Anya at the end of episode 1 after rescuing her from the Franky group's warehouse. It is the first crack in his purely mission-focused view of the family.

"I'm sorry for punching you."

Anya's apology to Damian Desmond after decking him on the first day at Eden Academy, delivered with tears that make the boy blush so hard he runs away. It is the start of Operation Strix's 'Friendship Scheme'.

"Anya is my daughter. I'll protect her with everything I have."

Yor's vow when Anya is threatened, the assassin in her fully committed to the child she agreed to mother as part of a fake marriage. The Thorn Princess does not do half measures.

"Papa, are you a liar?"

Anya, who can read minds, asks Loid this in episode 1 after seeing the truth about his spy work in his thoughts. The question hangs over the whole series, since every member of the Forger family is lying.

"Heh. Elegance."

Housemaster Henry Henderson's obsession with elegance is introduced during the Forgers' Eden Academy interview in episode 4. His catchword recurs every time Anya's antics either meet or shatter his standards.

"To create a better world, I'll become a father. That's the mission."

Twilight accepting Operation Strix in the first episode: marry, adopt a child and get her into Eden Academy to spy on Donovan Desmond. He treats family as a cover, and the show slowly proves him wrong.

"The ordinary, everyday lives of people are what I'm protecting."

Loid's reflection at the end of the first season, watching Yor and Anya's ordinary walk home after the bus hijacking. He is beginning to understand that the fake family is exactly the thing he fights for.

"As long as we're together, we'll make it through."

Yor's thought after accepting the marriage arrangement with Loid in episode 2, having spent the evening fighting off criminals together. It shows she wants the family for real even as she hides her assassin work.

"My sister is absolutely the best!"

Yuri's worldview in a sentence, delivered while interrogating Loid at the Forger dinner. The secret police officer who hunts spies for a living is powerless in front of Yor.

"Don't talk to me, you dumb commoner."

Damian's greeting to Anya at Eden Academy, before her punch and her apology turn his contempt into a crush he refuses to admit. The rich boy's bluster hides a kid desperate for his father's attention.

"I will never acknowledge you as my brother-in-law!"

Yuri to Loid at the end of the disastrous dinner, after demanding proof that the marriage is real and getting far more than he wanted. His jealousy is the running joke of the episode.

"I'll be the one to become Loid Forger's wife."

Nightfall's private ambition when she visits the Forger home, convinced that a fellow spy would make a better partner for Twilight than a clumsy civilian. Yor beats her at tennis anyway.