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Some day I'll be part of your world!

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Triton: You went up to the surface again, didn't you? Didn't you?!

Ariel: Nothing happened.

Triton: Ariel, how many times must we go through this? You could've been seen by one of those barbarians. By... By one of those... humans!

Ariel: Daddy, they're not barbarians!

Triton: They are dangerous! Do you think I want to see my youngest daughter snared by some fish-eater's hook?!

Ariel: I'm 16 years old! I'm not a child anymore!

Triton: Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young lady! As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!

Ariel: But if you would just listen!

Triton: Not another word! And I am never, never to hear of you going to the surface again! Is that clear?!

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Triton: I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules and I expect those rules to be obeyed.

Ariel: But Dad, I...!

Triton: Is it true you rescued a human from drowning?!

Ariel: Daddy, I had to.

Triton: Contact between the human world and the mermaid world is strictly forbidden! Ariel, you know that! Everyone knows that!

Ariel: He would've died!

Triton: One less human to worry about.

Ariel: You don't even know him!

Triton: Know him? I don't have to know him! They're all the same: Spineless, savage, harpooning fish-eaters, incapable of any feeling.

Ariel: Daddy, I love him!

Triton: No. Have you lost your senses completely?! He's a human! You're a mermaid!

Ariel: I don't care!

Triton: So help me, Ariel, I am going to get through to you. And if this is the only way, so be it!

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The Little Mermaid

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