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American Horror Story: Asylum

2×1

& Teresa: What are we going to tell our kids about the honeymoon?
    Leo: Tell them the truth. How we visited the 12 most haunted places in America and screwed our brains out in every single one.
    Teresa: Or that Mommy’s a horror freak and Daddy lives to make Mommy happy?

& Kit: Your family, my folks... they should know.
    Alma: The world will change one day.
    Kit: The world is wrong.
    Alma: We need to keep it a secret.

& Sister Eunice: Sister Jude calls this her “stairway to heaven.”

& Sister Jude: Shelley was brought to us having been given the preposterous diagnosis by a psychiatrist comparing her to a wood nymph.
    Lana: You mean a nymphomaniac?
    Sister Jude: Just more nonsense from the charlatans. That young woman is a victim of her own lust. There’s no other name for it. Mental illness is the fashionable explanation for sin.

& Sister Jude: You know what this place was just two years ago? A hellhole!

& Sister Jude: Write it down. He believes the tonic for a diseased mind lies in the three "P"s: productivity, prayer, and purification... Oh, we have such dreams for this place...

& Sister Jude: I see you for exactly who you are.

& Kit: They weren’t human. They were monsters.
    Sister Jude: All monsters are human.

& Grace: There’s a rule for everything here.

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& Kit: Why are you being so nice to me?
    Grace: What you put out into the world comes back to you.
    Kit: So what’d you put out into the world to get locked up in a place like this?
    Grace: They say I chopped up my family. ... You gonna ask?
    Kit: Did you?

& Grace: They decide you’re sane, you’re going someplace way worse than this.
    Kit: What could be worse than this?
    Grace: You think it’s bad not having a chair? Just think of the one they’ll strap you into.

& Sister Jude: Let me give you fair warning: I’ll always win... against the patriarchal male.
    Dr. Arden: Bully for you!

& Monsignor Howard: These are amazing times, if you just look at it in another light.
    Sister Jude: There is no other light.
    Monsignor Howard: We’re literally almost on the moon. Our dear departed John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, was elected President. This is a time when anything can happen, if someone wants it enough.
    Sister Jude: But what on earth do we want, if not to save souls?
    Monsignor Howard: Here’s... what I want. I want this institution to become a place of such promise and renown that we are asked to be Cardinal of New York.
    Sister Jude: “We?”
    Monsignor Howard: Wherever I go, you go. You’re my right hand. You’ll become Mother Superior, overseeing thousands of nuns who will address you as “Reverend Mother.” And then, with God and you on my side... I see no reason why I couldn’t ascend to the office of first Anglo-American Pope. You’d enjoy Rome. Wouldn’t you, Sister?

& Sister Jude: Chin up. We’re gonna get you cured.

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