Quoting
Stating
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He immediately turns in his resignation to return to the Red Dwarf, stating that "we won't be apart, we just won't be together" and in doing so quoting exactly a romantic movie he saw at the start of the episode.
Source: I Want My Beloved to Be Happy - This trope is Older Than Dirt: a first-century BC gravestone in Bet Shearim bares an inscription "come in peace, and they will rest in their beds, he who goes straightforward" quoting Isaiah, stating that the person who died did so because he could not stand the evil around him.
Source: Too Good for This Sinful Earth
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Stating and Quoting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/quoting/stating
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