Not You, Mr. Dake

Billions 3×7

Chuck: As to the how, that involved distraction of the principal, subterfuge, stealth. The trifecta of chicanery.

Dr. Gilbert: It's no different than emergency room triage after a mass casualty event. You save who you can and force the fate of the rest out of your mind.
Chuck: I hoped you'd see it that way.

Chuck: So should we talk about the part we've been avoiding in front of her?
Axelrod: You mean who we're dumping this on?

Chuck: When there's a body, as the corpus of this juice company most certainly is, there has to be a gunman in the depository window. Otherwise, they keep looking for the killer.

Axelrod: That's dirty work. You have the stomach?
Chuck: Of a billygoat. When necessary.
Axelrod: For her.
Chuck: For her.

Wendy: So who's going to be our patsy?

Chuck: Dr. Gilbert, my name is Chuck Rhoades. I am the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York...

Chuck: Think.

Dr. Gilbert: Why's it always a cup of coffee? Car salesman pretends to get coffee. Cops on TV... You.

DeGiulio: "Conspiracy"? That's a four syllable word which means you'd better be able to prove it.

Chuck: Have you given much thought to the nature of guilt... Guilt is tricky, isn't it?... guilt is also a state of mind. Some of our greatest works of literature probe this very issue. What is guilt? Who should be punished, for what? What is the cost... the grinding, wearing, price... of carrying internal culpability even while escaping external blame... And often as not, right at the very center of the question, stands a great man who has transgressed.

Chuck: There are too few old-line professionals in the field these days who recognize nuanced shifts in loyalty. When I meet one, it is an honor to imbibe with them.

Bach: Just a minute! This isn't the Politburo, you can't just slander your neighbors to get ahead in the bread line...

DeGiulio: Whoa! I invited you to my home for a nice dinner, you people are trying to turn it into the Animal House toga party.

DeGiulio: There are limits to what I will tolerate in all areas of my life. For instance, I'm fine with slightly undercooked pasta. But overcook it, and we are no longer eating together.

Taylor: This is like a country song where the guy drowns his sorrows in whiskey... Only you're using powdered chocolate.

Wendy: He likes me.
Axelrod: We all like you.
Wendy: No. He likes me.

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How do you know it's okay?
Wendy: You could be asking about one of six things. Specify.

Taylor: I'm asking about your authority. How you give yourself permission?
Wendy: Are you asking about me or you?
Taylor: We all do it. With our assumptions and our own biases and egos competing with our desire to do good.

Taylor: The doctor's oath. Do no harm. Three words. And yet. Almost impossible to put into practice.

Wendy: Well, there can only be one truth. Right?
Mafee: Absolutely.

Jeffcoat: No need for niceties. Now let's run through it, see how the hell we got here, who walks and who doesn't...

Jeffcoat: All right. Any way we can take some scalps?... The correct answer to that query better be a resounding 'sir, yes, fucking sir.'

Chuck: Be good to have you back, Bryan.
Bryan: And great to be back, Chuck.

Chuck: You know, at certain times, I find myself coming back to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ... As almost everyone else I know did, I watched it over and over. ... There they were at the end, in Bolivia, wounded, pinned down, but sure they could shoot their way out of a bad situation as they always had... The only problem was, they had incomplete information. They were unaware that the whole of the Bolivian army had massed outside. But it was that incomplete information that allowed them to run out, guns blazing... into what? Their noble deaths...

Dake: I knew it along the way. But that's the thing: once you're inside the cannon... there's only one way out.

Wendy: And I want you to know... that this is strictly platonic...

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The Battle Joined

Outlander 3×1

Claire: Got to look pretty when you meet the boss...

Frank: It doesn't even smell like tea after weeks of sitting in these... little paper diapers. ... I mean, why change something that works perfectly well? Tea in a tin. Scoop it out. Put it in a pot. Is it really so difficult?

Frank: Well, I'm not sure I'll ever understand the American obsession with the new. Like everything has to be new, new, new.
Claire: Well... that's one of the reasons I like this country. It's young... It's eager. It's constantly looking towards the future.

Nurse: What a beautiful little angel... Where'd she get the red hair?

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Паоло Бачигалупи — Затонувшие города

Разрушитель кораблей (Разрушитель кораблей — 1)

Разрушитель кораблей — 2

 “В темноте клеток звенели цепи. ...

&  Сам Тул не был зверем, способным рассуждать только о нападении и драке. Он был выше этого. Монстр не прожил бы столько времени, рассуждая, как животное. Его единственные враги – как всегда, паника и глупость. Не пули, не клыки, не мачете, не когти. Не бомбы, не колючая проволока. И не эта тупая тварь. Нет, только паника.

&  Сунь Цзы говорил, что ввязываться в бой стоит только в том случае, если ты знаешь, как выглядит победа. Побеждают те, кто знает, когда нападать.

&  Буйный нрав – одно из худших качеств для полководца, а тех, кто слышит оскорбления, легко победить.

&  Пусть она наполовину китаянка по крови, на самом деле она – жительница Затонувших городов, целиком и полностью. Одно из тех животных, которых он считал не поддающимися дрессировке.
     Маля горько улыбнулась при этой мысли. Он ведь проиграл. Ее отец бежал, поджав хвост, потому что был слишком цивилизованным для хреновых Затонувших городов. Да, он звал здешних вождей бумажными тиграми, но в конце концов оказалось, что он сам бумажный. Да, китайские миротворцы казались ужасно опасными с их пушками и броней, но в конечном итоге их снесло, как ветер уносит листья.

&  «Они просто такие, – напомнила она себе, – не надо бороться с тем, с чем бороться не можешь». Ей нужно думать, как Сунь Цзы. Составить собственный план...

&  – Никогда не проси о пощаде. Прими поражение. Просят только собаки и люди.

&  На самом деле неважно, какой путь ты выбираешь, – конец все равно будет один.

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All the Wilburys

Billions 3×8

Chuck: You were sleeping like a bear cub when I left.
Wendy: I was.
Chuck: Well, the sleep of the free...

Wendy: Now, prepare yourself. I have something... very special planned. And you have earned it. In every way.
Chuck: Mm. I have, indeed. I was very good at being bad.
Wendy: And you are about to pay for all of it.
Chuck: I hope that's a promise...

Rhoades, Sr.: Get comfortable... "Mistress."

Foley: This is, um... this is an object lesson. And as you know, people learn much better when heightened emotions accompany the instruction.

Wendy: The things we did...
Chuck: Had to do. Had to do. But yes, of course. Blood will have blood.

Wendy: Hear this: if you're moving forward, you gotta reverse the power dynamic.

Wendy: Foley's hurt a lot of people. Find one. Use one. Get back on top.

Spyros: O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done...

Axelrod: You know what The Beatles did when they got back to England after their first whirlwind tour of America?
Wags: I imagine they all went to their doctor and got a shot of penicillin in their dicks.
Axelrod: Yeah. Sure. But after that...
Taylor: They recorded their next album.
Axelrod: That they did. One every six months, in fact. So instead of basking in their victory, they consolidated it.
Wendy: They were young. And there was only upside in pressing their advantage.
Axelrod: There is always only upside in pressing your advantage. That's the whole point of having an advantage to press.

Axelrod: ...Especially you, Taylor. You've never been on a raise. This is the other half of the job. And the results that we've generated are the seeds.
Taylor: And the horseshit we will spew is the fertilizer.
Axelrod: Horseshit works.

Chuck: Nothing will stick to you.
Sweeney: On the square?
Chuck: From one traveling man to another.

Axelrod: Do you know whose life has always amazed me, Spyros?... George Harrison's.
Wags: Ah, that Beatle.
Axelrod: Yes. Because Harrison wasn't only a Beatle. He was also a Traveling Wilbury.

Axelrod: You're fired.
Spyros: You're firing me?!
Axelrod: I just did. It happened. I said the words.

Spyros: I'll prove it to you! I-I-I do have value. I-I am a Wilbury! I'm all the Wilburys put together!!

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Axelrod: Instead of focusing on what fees you're paying, I suggest you focus on the money you're making. How you'll spend it. What your life will be like going forward. Because that's what I'm doing.

Chuck: There's no need to worry about any of that. About hard feelings or retribution. No, you did everything exactly the way I taught you. Investigated the case fully, followed where it led, and refused to be cowed by power. That's more than admirable. It's... heroic.

Chuck: Yeah, Bryan. You learned every lesson I had to teach. Except the one that matters most. You didn't win. Didn't finish me off.

Chuck: I'm still standing here in the best job there is because I can do what I want, when I want, how I want. Oh, I am bad, bad Leroy Brown. Baddest man in the whole damn town.

Chuck: You breached my threshold and threatened me, threatened my wife, the mother of my children. How could you think there's a universe where you would survive that?

Chuck: Drop your credentials at the guard's desk. And GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!....
- Here endeth the lesson.

Axelrod: I told you you'd get the billion. I didn't tell you when.

Wags: You can lead a horse to natural gas but you can't make it invest.

Axelrod: It's about the future of Axe Capital, making it what it's supposed to be.
Taylor: What's that?
Axelrod: Unassailable. Untouchable. Unbreakable. An institution that's TBTF-W... too big to fuck with.
Taylor: Do you know how you sound?
Axelrod: Yeah. Certain.

Spyros: It's like you have a seventh sense for the dark side.
Dollar Bill: Sixth sense?
Spyros: I try to avoid cliché.

Chuck: Yes, Jack. Looks like you just got your manhood caught in a tiger trap...

Chuck: ...now is the time to set new terms... Things will be different moving forward.

DeGiulio: I need you to stay U.S. Attorney...

DeGiulio: Each time I'm here, I'm more and more impressed with the warmth of your home and the life you've built. It speaks to your character.

Wendy: What about passion? Excitement. What about fire?

Wendy: Politics is a different kind of fight. It's about consensus building and concession granting and hand wringing and ass kissing. But in your job now, you... are... a king.

Wendy: You don't want to be in politics, you want to be beyond politics.

Wendy: We're all scarred.
Axelrod: Yeah. I thought scar tissue was supposed to be stronger.
Wendy: That's actually medically untrue, it's just rougher.
Axelrod: Well, I liked it better the other way.

Axelrod: Okay. Let me give you some advice for a change. Maybe I'll take it too: you can sit here killing yourself if you want, but when you do something to put yourself back in charge, remind yourself that you are not less, but more powerful for what you've come through... that's when you'll feel better.

Axelrod: Is this a renewable source?
Spyros: As long as we don't 'open our proverbial overcoats' and 'flash our junk' at a particular three-lettered agency.
Dollar Bill: As long as we play it cool.

Rhoades, Sr.: Son, you tell the folks the good news.

Chuck: Dad...
Rhoades, Sr.: I now know the only way you could avoid stepping on your dick is if I'd made them cut it off in that birthing room.

Sweeney: ...We are the state of Eastman, Cooper, the Roosevelts, the state that still stands as a beacon of hope, of freedom, of equality for the entire world...

Wags: I'm out. You coming?
Axelrod: Not quite yet. You know when I get on the treadmill at the gym, I got to stay on until the guy next to me gets off. Go further, longer. It's just the way I'm wired.
Wags: You go to a gym with other people in it?

Wendy: The next time you want to ambush, threaten, humiliate, or otherwise fuck with me, you'd do well to remember who you're fucking with.

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Fight or Flight

The Expanse 3×1

Bobbie: I'll be right back.
Chrisjen: You're fired!

Theo: I'm just a junior electrician!
Bobbie: Well, today you get to be a hero.

Praxideke: How about "Contorta"? It's short for Pinus Contorta or P. Contorta. It's this type of pine tree from Earth, does surprisingly well in low-G... They're good company. Actually quite fascinating. In order for them to survive, they have to die with fire... The seeds come out of the fire... C-O-N-T-O-R-T-A. That's the wisdom of the pines.

Chrisjen: Unless you have a better bad idea.

Johnson: New day, new bedfellows.

Praxideke: You should try tea.

Holden: Some things are in flux right now.
Praxideke: Nature's only constant... change.

Chrisjen: You've done your planet a great service.
Cotyar: She says that to everyone. Let's go!

Drummer: Everything becomes a weapon, Freddy. Didn't you teach me that?

Cotyar: Just gonna tea-kettle nice and easy out into the big empty...

Chrisjen: Get me off this ship!
Bobbie: Hitch your tits and pucker up. It's time to peel the paint.

Bobbie: Brace for impact.

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The Third Ortolan

Billions 3×6

Wags: We wear them for two reasons. To keep the aromas from escaping, and to hide this shameful and depraved act from god.
Axelrod: Well, if there were a god, I think he'd know.

Taylor: They're delphiniums. The petals are clustered according to the Fibonacci Sequence... Also called the Golden Ratio.

Bryan: Confidence? Not even Evel Knievel could jump the gap between what I know and what I can prove.
Dake: Then I suggest you do what Mr. Knievel always did... Rev her high. Pray for mercy. Try to put her down on the ramp. And hope you are one of the elect.

Wendy: Measurable successes are seductive. Especially when we're young. But when it comes to dealing with other human beings, we have to steer from instinct.

Bach: We're almost home. Don't let your paranoia make you take unnecessary risks.
Axelrod: Not unnecessary if they keep me out of jail.

DeGiulio: No! Why the hell would you risk coming to my chambers just to turn heel and walk out? What weak cheese is that?
Bryan: You said "goodbye."
DeGiulio: I'm a judge. I give orders all day. You're a litigator. You find a way to disobey them without getting nailed for it.

DeGiulio: That sensation you're feeling, it's known as the Dip. Seth Godin coined it. Feels like the moment before defeat. It's actually the moment before success.

Spyros: We got some real Whitewater shit here.

Axelrod: If this were the four by 100 meter relay, you would be disqualified for sniffing glue on the team bus... This is the worst fucking idea anyone's brought me in over a year.

Axelrod: The only reason you're not flying is because these windows don't open.

Wendy: You have the best lawyers. Look where you're at.
Axelrod: I thought I had this locked down.
Wendy: Well, you didn't.
Axelrod: I know you did what you did with the same intention: to protect those you love.
Wendy: And I, too, failed.

Axelrod: What words do you need me to say to make you feel safe?

Wendy: How are we gonna make this okay?

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Bach: In every battle there are casualties. You're talking about surrendering your kingdom to save a single loyal soldier.
Axelrod: She saved me. And she's not just a loyal soldier, she's the company's fucking spirit animal.

Axelrod: My people come unglued, she puts them back together, and better than they were before.
Bach: Your own personal Oscar Goldman.
Axelrod: If you will.

Bach: You'll get seven years. Minimum. And you'll do over 80 percent of it because it's Federal. Lara will be a pariah. Your sons will be scarred; it'll haunt them all their lives. Maybe more than it will yours.

Taylor: Twizzlers, Bit O' Honeys, Juicy Fruit... Standard coding provisions.

Chuck: We're gonna need lawyers. Separate ones. Keep even one of us out of prison.

Wags: I don't know about you, but I just had a religious experience. At the climax I felt the crack of its little rib cage, then the hot juices rushing out down my gullet. Sublime.

Wylie Dufresne: You know what they say about ortolan... one is bliss, two is gluttony.
Wags: How about three?

Axelrod: Jesus, what the fuck happened.
Wags: You fought the law. The law won.

Axelrod: Thanks for the friendship.

Axelrod: Had it ever come to pass... I think we would have been damn good at being governor.

Chuck: Dad...
Rhoades, Sr.: What the hell could you possibly want?

Wendy: What do you do when there's no play to be made? When no matter what you choose, it'll end in disaster?
Black Jack Foley: Classic double-bind... There's a Zen koan where the teacher holds a stick. He says to his student, "If you tell me this stick is real, I will beat you with it. If you tell me it is not real, I will beat you with it. If you say nothing, I will beat you with it." And so, the student reaches out, grabs the stick, and breaks it.

Black Jack Foley: If a situation is untenable, Mrs. Rhoades, you break that fucking stick.

Rhoades, Sr.: Don't tell the kids anything until the verdict is announced. And never let them see your shame. Bearing, son, is all.

Axelrod: Ballsy.

Wendy: I didn't bring us all together so I could mediate your puerile bullshit. This is how we ended up here in the first place. Because the two of you, at your absolute fucking worst, went after each other like a couple of pit bulls. And now we're all three of us royally fucked, in a way that's so incestuous that if one of us goes to prison, we all do. Conversely, if we want to get ourselves out of this clusterfuck...
Axelrod: It's one for all and all for one?

Wendy: Sit!

Axelrod: Full transparency. I give you my word.
Chuck: You want transparency?... How fucking clear is this?

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Maquis

Colony 3×1

Snyder: I feel like a Masai tribeswoman.
Katie: Good. Those women walk 40 miles across the Serengeti for water without complaining.

Snyder: Is it really healthy for a young man to spend all of his time listening to some lady read numbers on the radio?

Snyder: You know, in my experience, you don't have to work so hard to find problems. They usually come and find you.

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The Riddle of the Sphinx

Westworld 2×4

Walter: Little early for me.
James Delos: Little too fuckin' late, you mean. Besides, if you aim to cheat the devil, you owe him an offering.

Bernard: Ford wrote a g-game, and we're all in it. Now all the hosts are free, with no constraints, n-n-no safeguards.

Elsie: You have a family. You have an ex-wife. You have... a backstory.

Bernard: Is this now?

Laura: A lot of people tend to ignore their narratives... I don't like other people very much.

Akecheta: You live only as long as the last person who remembers you.

Bernard: Maybe we don't want to know...

Man in Black: Death's decisions are final. It's only the living that... That are inconstant... and waver, don't know who they are or what they want. Death is always true.

Walter: The engineers call it a cognitive plateau. Your mind is stable for a few hours, few days, and then it starts to fall apart. Every time. At first we thought it was your mind rejecting the new body. Like an organ that's not a perfect match. But it's more like your mind... rejects reality.

Walter: I'm beginning to think that this whole enterprise was a mistake. People aren't meant to live forever.

James Delos: They said there were two fathers. One above, one below. They lied. There was only ever the devil. And when you look up from the bottom, it was just his reflection... laughing back down at you.

Lawrence's Daughter: I know who you are, William. One good deed doesn't change that.
Man in Black: Who said anything about a good deed? You wanted me to play your game. I'm gonna play it to the bone.
Lawrence's Daughter: And you still don't understand the real game we're playing here. If you're looking forward, you're looking in the wrong direction.

Laura: Hi, Dad.

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All Hands on Decker

Lucifer 3×22

Chloe: Three...
Ella: Months?
Chloe: Weeks, actually.
Ella: What? That is not enough time to plan!

Ella: The dark days to come 'cause, I mean, sleeping with the same dude for the rest of your life?... Even hot gets boring, Chloe. Dark days ahead, indeed.

Chloe: Look, we solve murders. How hard can it be to plan one little wedding?

Dan: So then, uh, tell me, what do you want or, uh, desire?

Ella: Oh, man. I promised Chloe the moon. And I gave her burnt toast.

Amenadiel: Becoming mortal is the best thing that ever happened to me. Everything is so much better when you know that you can... you can die at any moment.

Amenadiel: Every sip of beer, every blue sky, every motorcycle ride, every kiss... So much more precious when you realize it could be your last. That any random act could just... take it all away.

Ella: Just let her have some fun. What could possibly go wrong?...

Dr. Valerie Haynes: You think I need money? Imagine how much people spend on their kids. Peanuts compared to what they spend on their pets.

Frederick: You got to understand, a dog is supposed to be man's best friend, not man's best replacement.

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Flaw in the Death Star

Billions 3×5

Axelrod: Fingerprints live for years...
John: Decades.

Oscar: Smart person. Didn't seem like a fan of me or my work, but...
Axelrod: Well, we jerked them around a little. So they felt jerked around.

Taylor: VCs are just hedge fund managers who can quote the Tibetan Book Of The Dead.

Axelrod: Axe Cap goes wherever you do.

Dake: The trial is looming and you are not making progress. Failure is getting to be a familiar refrain with you. Don't let it become your anthem.

Wendy: Calm the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and get into my office! Both of you.

Wendy: Why is it so crazy to think that these two brilliant...
Wags: Because Dollar Bill and Spyros may be oil and water but your two other fellows are nitrate and glycerol. You combine those...
Wendy: Yeah. I know. Boom.

Wags: Some days, I don't understand how you're still ambulatory.

Chuck: We here at Rhoades Airlines know you have many travel options and are grateful that you have chosen to fly with us.
You will be rewarded.

Chuck: I've asked you here because I require cooperation...

Axelrod: ...stop looking to me for help. Help yourself.

Taylor: You don't own the tech you want to retool. That's your thermal exhaust port.
My...
Oscar: Flaw in the Death Star. The two-meter wide gap that runs directly into the reactor system.

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Oscar: People are too harsh on the port. They think it's a plot problem. Like, "Why didn't they plug the hole?"
Taylor: I know! Unfairly derided. What material could withstand the heat expended from that mammoth sphere?
Oscar: Plus, it was fortified with gun turrets and...
Taylor: And a fleet of TIE fighters. Yes.
Oscar: Nobody gets on Homer for the whole Achilles' heel situation.
Taylor: She had to hold him by something.
Oscar: Have dinner with me.

Axelrod: That's a very credible story. But in my line of work, we aim to eliminate risk. It's called downside protection. Now, there's always a price for it. The question is: Am I going to pay it... or are you?

Spyros: I once policed violations, I now prevent them...
Axelrod: Wrong. One word: risk. Inside the government there is none. Every action, every moment is backed by the full power and credit... suspect as that may be... of the United States of America. Everything is all fucking covered by Big State. ... But for us... and for you too now... everything is on the line. We don't feel like coming into work one morning, we make a series of fucked up calls... the lights get shut and we are on the balls of our asses... But what do we get for taking all that risk?... Capital. Value. It's why you drive that gorgeous German engineered sports car.

Axelrod: You are us now. And a man who turns on his own family, he turns on himself. You're better than that, aren't you Spyros?
Spyros: You never told me I was family.
Axelrod: Favorite son.
Wags: Like a brother.

Chuck: We are gonna find a compromise...

Sacker: Fabricating evidence.
Allerd: Nah, evidence is real. We're just massaging the dates. For the right reason: justice.

Chuck: How can this sustain? You giving all of yourself to both of us?

Dollar Bill: Buck saved, buck earned.

Axelrod: Has to be done.

Bryan: I just wonder: Wouldn't you like to fuck Chuck up?

Axelrod: Well, I finally got my read: I'm fucked.

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Once You've Ruled Out God

Elementary 6×2

Watson: ...he was my father, but he was your dad.

Capt. Gregson: Killer's freeze ray was probably in the shop, so he used his lightning gun instead.
Holmes: Not as unlikely as it sounds.

Det. Bell: An LIPC?
Mrs. Giri: A laser-induced plasma channel. An electrolaser. It's a lightning gun, basically.

Lin: That's your Chinese name, right? Yun Jingyi?

Holmes: You do look rather queasy. Nausea can have many causes: food-borne viruses, shock, guilt... Radiation poisoning.

Holmes: Spotted something in the footage?
Watson: How did...?
Holmes: I'm blind. I'm not deaf. Your breathing changed. What did you see?

Watson: I'm detecting radiation.
Det. Bell: Beg your pardon?
Holmes: She downloaded an app last night that turns her phone into a Geiger counter.
Det. Bell: For real?

Holmes: Watson, does your phone also have an app for locating white supremacists? Because a group of them may now be in possession of a dirty bomb, and our best hope of finding them has a bullet in his brain.

Holmes: It is evidence, nonetheless, and... a good detective must never ignore the evidence.

Holmes: It was easier to know it than to explain how I knew it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty. And yet you are sure of the fact.

Holmes: PCS is best attacked from different angles. Yesterday, I helped foil an international ring of jewel thieves. And, today, I'm assembling Unicorn Utopia, ages eight and up.

Watson: When you're done with that one, I have three more downstairs. If you like Unicorn Utopia, you are gonna love Pretty Princess Party.

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Паоло Бачигалупи — Разрушитель кораблей

  “Гвоздарь пролез сквозь технический тоннель, держась за медный кабель, и рывком отодрал его. ...

&  Лучше думать, что все в жизни случайно, чем полагать, что мир готов пожрать тебя.

&  Такова жизнь. Ты можешь взлететь, ... а можешь упасть... Можешь умереть, ... или выжить, ... если тебе повезет. Это две стороны одной монеты, которую ты каждый день подбрасываешь в воздух и которая падает на игральный стол жизни. Ты либо живешь, либо умираешь.

&  Сложно понять, когда поступаешь умно, а когда – слишком умно, себе во вред.

&  – Убийство не проходит даром. Каждый раз оно забирает часть тебя. Ты забираешь жизнь, а убитый забирает часть твоей души. Такова цена, всегда.

&  – Единственное, почему ты можешь позволить себе блюсти мораль, это потому, что у тебя нет такой нужды в деньгах, как у обычных людей.

  ... За ним до самого горизонта тянулось синее море, такое манящее.”

>> Затонувшие города (Разрушитель кораблей — 2)

Black Panther

Shuri: How many times do I have to teach you? Just because something works doesn't mean that it cannot be improved.

Ulysses Klaue: ...it's better to leave the crime scene more spread out. Makes us look like amateurs.

King T'Chaka: A man who has not prepared his children for his own death... has failed as a father.

W'Kabi: You let the refugees in... they bring their problems with them. And then Wakanda is like everywhere else.

Everett K. Ross: Does she speak English?
Okoye: When she wants to.

Shuri: Don't scare me like that, colonizer!

M'Baku: You cannot talk! One more word, and I will feed you to my children... I'm kidding. We are vegetarians.

Everett K. Ross: Here goes nothing.

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>> Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

The Bow Tie Asymmetry

The Big Bang Theory 11×24

Penny: Think of this as one of your comic book movies. There's a bunch of superheroes, each with a different task.

Amy: I-I think it's more like, uh, like Lord of the Rings, and you're the Fellowship. Uh, someone's got to go to Gondor, someone's got to go to Mordor, someone's got to hold off the demon of shadow and flame.
Leonard: You mean the Balrog?
Amy: I mean my mother.

Sheldon: That is a perfect metaphor, Amy. Because it also involves a ring that binds me in servitude forever.
Amy: Aw, he said forever...

Sheldon: There is nothing in the world that would stop me from marrying you tomorrow, even me from the future coming back to prevent the wedding and the subsequent birth of a child who will destroy humanity.
Amy: Because... if you came from the future... that would mean you already went through with the wedding because you believe that time travel is on a closed loop.
Sheldon: I love you so damn much.

Mary: Oh, so now it's racist to notice when somebody's Indian...
Raj: I don't think it's racist. I noticed you were both white.

Mark Hamill: Please? There must be something I can do for you. Anything.
Howard: Ooooh, you're gonna regret that.

Penny: You know, Amy still does some performing. She and Sheldon do an Internet show about flags.
Mrs. Fowler: Amy? V-Videos on the Internet? You know what men use those for...

Mary: Let me straighten your tie--
Sheldon: No, no, no, it's all right. It's supposed to be a little asymmetrical. Apparently, a small flaw somehow improves it.
Mary: I can see that. Sometimes it's the... imperfect stuff that makes things perfect.

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Wil Wheaton: So, we finally meet...
Mark Hamill: I'm sorry, who are you?

Sheldon: There's something I need to tell you... Wow, you look amazing!

Sheldon: My equations have been trying to describe an imperfect world, and the only way to do that is to introduce imperfection into the underlying theory.
Amy: So, instead of supersymmetry, it would be... super asymmetry?
Sheldon: Super asymmetry... That's it!

Sheldon: Give me your lipstick.
Amy: What?!
Sheldon: Just give it to me, you beautiful thing! We have work to do!

Howard: Hey, everybody! Uh, it's gonna be a few more minutes, but while we wait, does anyone have any questions about Star Wars?

Leonard: Super asymmetry? Is that a thing?
Sheldon: We're inventing it right now.

Mark Hamill: Chewie had a wife?

Sheldon: No, Penny's right. We have our whole lives to do science together.

Amy: I can't imagine loving you more than I do right now. But I felt that way yesterday and the day before yesterday and the day before that.
Sheldon: Is that growth linear or accelerating?

Mark Hamill: Well, that was unexpectedly beautiful. I might need a minute.

Sheldon: Even if I can't tell you now how I feel... I will spend my life showing you how much I love you.

Mark Hamill: Then by the power vested in me by EvenYouCanPerformWeddings.com...

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The Light Between Oceans

Tom Sherbourne: All due respect, Mr. Coughlan, it's not likely to be tougher than the Western Front.

Isabel Graysmark: My brothers used to tease me awfully when I played. I lost both of them. In the War. Just must be so confusing for my parents. I mean, if a wife loses a husband she becomes a widow, but if a parent loses a child there's no special label for it. You're still a mother or father. Even if you no longer have a child. Sometimes I wonder, if I'm still technically a sister now when my brothers are gone.

Tom Sherbourne: Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
Isabel Graysmark: So if I can't talk about the past, am I allowed to talk about the future?
Tom Sherbourne: We can't rightly talk about the future if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.

Tom Sherbourne: When it comes to the ocean, anything's possible.

Tom Sherbourne: I had this coming for a long time, Ralph. Sins catch up with you in the end.

Hannah Roennfeldt: How do you do it?
Frank Roennfeldt: You only have to forgive once. To resent you have to do it all day, every day. All the time. You have to keep remembering the bad things. It's too much work.

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Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza

Young Sheldon 1×21

George: Mmm. Good ratio of hot dog chunks to spaghetti...

Dr. Sturgis: Interesting fact: ....

Dr. Sturgis: Well, here's something you might find interesting...

Mary: Lord, forgive me for lying. I'll tell him the truth when he's 30. Amen.

Dr. Sturgis: Connie...
Meemaw: Oh, boy.
Dr. Sturgis: Would you honor me with an evening of intimate relations?

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Other Women

The Handmaid's Tale 2×4

Aunt Lydia: Blessed be the fruit.

June: It's June. You know my fucking name.

Aunt Lydia: You see... June will be chained in this room until she gives birth. And then June will be... executed. Offred has an opportunity... It would be better for the baby.

Offred: Praised be.

Aunt Lydia: Offred, love?.. God provides all we need in His bounty, but it is our duty to choose vitamins and minerals in wise proportion to support the baby.

Aunt Lydia: I've worked with many Wives and Handmaids. This part is always hard.
Serena: Mothers. Mothers and Handmaids.

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Aunt Lydia: She's strong. But that means your child will be strong.

June: I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Aunt Lydia: Of course, if you asked them, this would not have been the path they would have chosen. But you didn't ask them, did you? You chose for them. Such a selfish girl.

Aunt Lydia: To teach June a lesson. June did this. June ran away. June consorted with terrorists. Not Offred. Offred was kidnapped. Offred... is free... from blame. Offred does not have to bear June's guilt.

Offred: Please. Let me try to be good.

June: My fault. My fault. My fault.

June: Please, God... Let me forget me.

Offred: We've been sent good weather. We've been sent good weather. We've been sent good weather...

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Anything Pierce Can Do I Can Do Better

Lucifer 3×21

Lucifer: I mean, come on, really. It's God 101, isn't it?

Lucifer: We'll go old school, shall we? Come on! Let's rock and roll!

Lucifer: I guess this is good-bye.
Pierce: Yeah.
Lucifer: But, on the bright side... see you never.

Lucifer: Shouldn't you be, uh, I don't know, having tea with Hitler by now?

Lucifer: I'm not one to look a gift-angel in the mouth, I'll take it.

Lucifer: Here's something I can do that other people, rhymes with Shmierce, cannot...

Charlotte: I'm a terrible person that's... that's led a terrible life, so I'm... I'm preparing myself for damnation.
Amenadiel: In a three-star hotel?
Charlotte: It's what I deserve.

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Chloe: Wait, do you think this is some sort of competition?
Lucifer: Of course! If it isn't painfully obvious, anything Pierce can do, I can do better.

Mazikeen: It's mea culpa time.

Chloe: How do you know if you can trust people?
Mazikeen: It's simple. I can't.

William Sterling: You don't always get to pick who you fall in love with.

Charlotte: No, we are not giving up. After all, you don't quit when you're doing God's work.

Linda: You know, the truth is... no one really knows what your Dad's responsible for. We're all just guessing. Even you. But you know the one thing He can't control?... What you do in this moment right now.

Linda: So I ask you, the Devil... what do you truly desire?

Pierce: Chloe Decker, will you marry me?

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Cancun, Baby!

The Last Man on Earth 4×18

Todd: It's like a gingerbread house made of corpses, bud.

Tandy: Hate to say it, Care Bear, but we're all still fighting a raging case of HPV... Human People Vanished.

Tandy: Well, guess it's time we say our final good-byes...

Tandy: It hasn't been this hard to say good-bye to a house since Hugh Laurie died, but we must.

Tandy: We bid our final "hasta la vista, baby" to this place that meant so much until it turned into a raging carnival of horrors.

Tandy: And now, we send it back to Hell, from whence it came. Beelzebub, take this house and shove it in your butt.

Mike: Should we go pick up an R.V. or something?
Tandy: I was thinking more along the lines of an S.E.... Something Else.

Todd: Well, I guess it's time for me to move on to the next movie in my filmography... Se7en. Will you join me, Brad Pitt?
Melissa: What's in the box? What's in the box?!

---

Tandy: Hey, couldn't help notice you guys Frenching over here, and I love it. You know, glad you guys are enjoying each other's mouths...

Tandy: Carol and I have decided that every time we want to kiss, we're just gonna shake hands instead. It's actually been pretty erotic. After all, the, you know, the palm is the vagina of the hand.

Tandy: This could be a food source that could last us the rest of our lives. Goat milk, goat cheese, goat yogurt, goat, uh, eggs...

Tandy: Look, there's literally an expiration date on the way we've been living, and that date has passed.

Tandy: Let's make like a tree and put some roots down.

Tandy: It's just so exciting. I mean, there's just something peaceful about being in the place where you know you're gonna... die.

Tandy: Oh, farts.

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Buried

Fear the Walking Dead 4×4

Althea: How did you end up here?
Victor: That's a big question.
Althea: Sometimes those are the easiest ones to answer.

Victor: Have you ever eaten cattle feed? Lemme tell you-- it's an acquired taste.

Alicia: Well, that's worse than Band-Aids in the water.

Althea: Why is that the day everything changed?
Alicia: We should have talked my mom into leaving.
Victor: I should have followed my gut. I should have kept that car secret.
Luciana: We should have flipped to another page. We should have found someplace else to go.
Alicia: But we wanted to believe.
Luciana: We wanted to stay.
Victor: I wanted to be a better person.

Althea: You served them to me between two slices of bullshit, so how am I supposed to tell the difference?
Victor: Sniff before you bite.

Victor: We don't have to tell you anything. You want the truth? You want to know how this ends? Come see it for yourself.

John: You were right. We're always on our own.

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Hell of a Ride

Billions 3×4

Attorney: Don't say a thing until they say the magic word.
Dake: .... We are prepared to offer you immunity.
Attorney: That's the one.
Dake: In exchange for your cooperation.

Chuck: He's... a free-radical. Not taking my counsel at the moment.
Dake: Then you have a real and unsolvable problem.

Wags: Let the Saudis keep 432 Park. This is the real prize... The last burial plot in Manhattan.
Axelrod: And all the time to enjoy it.
Wags: Only $350,000, and this cool slice of earth is mine.

Wendy: You RSVP'd no, you hate reunions. "The dead are more present than the living,"

Rhoades, Sr.: Brace a man while he's grooming himself, hope the intimacy makes him feel vulnerable... An admirable tactic, Bryan.

Rhoades, Sr.: Well, I guess, you wait for someone to embarrass himself, he will.

Rhoades, Sr.: You must think I'm a physical moron. That's Victorian for retard, understand.

Bryan: Why does this keep happening to me...?

Mafee: How did we ever think to short that smile?
Taylor: His charm is a liability. It means people believe whatever he tells them. And he believes it, too. It ends up having a washing machine effect.

Mafee: Can I be honest? I'll be honest. I'm rooting for him to get there.
Taylor: I am too. First step is the ISS. Next, space colonization. My bet is against his business model. Not his vision.

Ayles: Who, in the name of goodness, is that?
Axelrod: That's the Bear Jew.
Ayles: ..... Savage.
Axelrod: Yes, he is. For the cause. As are we.

Taylor: Philanthropy is a cesspool. The charities you give to are blind to the problems they aim to solve. Even Bill Gates. He gave malaria nets. And people used them as herring nets. Only they were coated in chemicals. So coastal West Africa ends up with depleted and inedible fish stocks. They asked him to stop helping.

---

Nussfaur: Care for her? I love her. Tits made to fit in a nice sized martini glass. I'm sure you've seen pictures.

Wags: Look, man, I have fucked up a lot in life. I want to do death right.

Taylor: He wanted to save our lives... I profited off his death.
Wendy: You lost a hero and were rewarded for it. These things are in conflict... But conflicting emotions require we resolve the conflict.
Taylor: Can they be resolved?
Wendy: One emotion has to prevail. Otherwise you languish while the dispute carries on and you miss opportunities.

Wendy: There is a toxicity that comes with being charged with a crime. Sure, it may matter to people in finance, but their reputations are buttressed by money. Philanthropies only have their reputation. And you are a threat to theirs. It's like academia. Everything's a big fucking deal, because the stakes are so small...

Joe Scolari: Eastern Elk need all the help they can get... Delicate species... Require a certain habitat.

Bryan: We've both loved this man... you as his father, me as a sort of son. But it's time to do what's right.

Rhoades, Sr.: I would've thought that my son trained you better than to rely on emotion, when only true fortitude will get the job done...

Rhoades, Sr.: You have my statement, buckeroo.

Oscar: To the good we've done. And will do.

Taylor: Do you know why Ethiopians eat this way? Shared? In the center? It's to foster a sense of community. Keep everything in the open. So everyone sees how much is available. And everyone knows they got their fair share. It keeps everyone honest...

Rhoades, Sr.: I'm proud of you, son. You did what was required... Fucked me good... Damn the torpedoes.

Axelrod: Bravo, Wags.
Wags: As the epitaph shall read.

Axelrod: Fuck, 33. Too soon.
Wags: No, dying in your thirties is "tragic." As is forties. Sympathy dissipates from there. Fifties is "such a shame." Sixties is "too soon."
Axelrod: Seventies... "a good run."
Wags: And eighties is "a life well lived." Nineties...
Axelrod: ... That's a fuckin' hell of a ride.

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Initial Coin Offering

Silicon Valley 5×7

Richard: All champagne tastes the same to me, so...
Dinesh: I agree, I mean, what's the difference between good champagne and bad champagne?
Gilfoyle: About $500.

Gilfoyle: Well, the only person we don't spend 20 hours a day with just left. So... What's new with you guys?

Jared: Well, "In doing what we ought, we deserve no praise because it is our duty." St. Augustine. So, um...

Gilfoyle: Worth is relative, Richard... Why do people covet the silly pieces of green cotton paper in their wallets? It's because we are all sheep. And we've mutually agreed to endow certain things with value.

Gilfoyle: You wanted an alternative to Laurie Bream. Well, it's right here in front of you... PiedPiperCoin.

Gilfoyle: There are very few things that I will defend with true passion: medical marijuana, the biblical Satan as a metaphor for rebellion against tyranny, and mother fucking Goddamn cryptocurrency... I have a PowerPoint that I've been wanting to show you for some time.

Laurie: I am not saying that we will force their hand on this issue. But neither am I saying definitively that we will not.

Jared: Richard, adversity is a great teacher. Just like cigarette burns...

Monica: So, no hard feelings?
Laurie: No feelings at all, Monica.

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Паоло Бачигалупи — Рассказы

Специалист по калориям

  “Мамы нет, папы нет, бедный я сирота! ...

&  Не повезло. Вот и все. Одно маленькое невезение разорвало цепочку удач. Боги капризны.

  ... По сторонам от нее поднимались чудовищные тени зерновых барж, все они шли на юг мимо плодородных берегов к воротам Нового Орлеана; все они размеренно двигались в далекий безбрежный мир.”

Человек с желтой карточкой

  “Блеск мачете, горящий склад. ...

&  Одежда делает человека, повторял он сыновьям. Первое впечатление — самое важное. Начни достойно — и ты в фаворитах. Кого-то обойдешь благодаря знаниям и опыту, но люди — это прежде всего животные. Презентабельная внешность. Дорогой запах. Пусть останутся довольны первым впечатлением. После, заполучив их благосклонность, делай предложение.

&  Одежда делает человека. Или убивает его. Теперь Тран понимает. Белоснежный, шитый на заказ костюм от братьев Хван — это только тряпка. Старинный золотой механизм на запястье не стоит ничего, если лишен главного назначения — привлекать внимание.

&  Тран — способный ученик. Как прежде он досконально изучал статистику приливов и карты глубин, мировые рынки и биоинженерные разработки в области эпидемиологии, схемы повышения прибыли и бухгалтерские книги, так теперь перенимает повадки чеширцев, этих котов-дьяволов, исчезающих при первой же опасности. Учится у ворон и коршунов, прочно обосновавшихся на свалке. Эти животные подают отличный пример выживания. Трану необходимо подавить в себе рефлексы тигра. Тигры остались только в зоопарках. Тигр — это всегда повод для охоты. Но у мелкого зверя, рыщущего среди отбросов, есть все шансы обглодать тушу большой полосатой кошки...

&  Жить прошлым — безумие.

&  Лучше подохнуть в состоянии полной невменяемости, чем осознавать и переживать в подробностях каждое мгновение неизбежной смерти от голода.

&  — Рука дающая вольна забрать, когда ей вздумается.

  ... — Завтра. — Тран устраивается удобнее. — Не хочу опоздать.”

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Virtù e Fortuna

Westworld 2×3

Nicholas: You think the park would go to the trouble of having one of them pretend to be one of us?

Laura: If you're one of them, you don't know what you want. You just do as you're told.

Bernard: Let's make you... the most virtuous, quickest gun in the West.

Rebus: You only ever touch a woman as gently as with the petal of a rose.

Dolores: I'm only gonna ask you once...

Dolores: I wonder...

Bernard: I was given a character, a story, and a function to serve, like you.

Dolores: My whole life has been dictated by someone else. Someone who's been saying, "You will." And now... now I feel like I've discovered my own voice. And it says, "I may."

Bernard: What do you want, Dolores?
Dolores: To dominate this world.

Dolores: The world out there is marked by survival, by a kind who refuses to die. And here we are. A kind that will never know death, and yet we're fighting to live. There is beauty in what we are. Shouldn't we too try to survive?

Dolores: Truth is... we don't all deserve to make it.

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The Angel of San Bernardino

Lucifer 3×20

Lucifer: Uh... you have DNA on your shirt.

Mrs. Hernandez: An angel, who saved me. It-it flew in here, and it just chased the evil man away.
Lucifer: ... I'm sorry, sorry, it's just the only thing my siblings would chase away are a good time.

Mrs. Hernandez: The angel... he took one of my figurines... Gabriel.
Lucifer: Right. Try lending him some money. Your tune changes rather quickly.

Lucifer: Father making me do angelic deeds is a divine kick in the nuts to me.

Ella: She hasn't said the magic words.... Those three little words. Rhymes with "my guv boo."

Charlotte: I had a big revelation recently, and it's completely changed my perspective on... well, everything. It's liberating.

Charlotte: I got you covered. I'll put in a word with the big guy.
Dan: With Pierce?
Charlotte: No, think bigger.
Dan: The commissioner?
Charlotte: It's an anadrome for D-O-G.

Chloe: Booth?
Lucifer: Yes, the FBI agent on Bones.
Chloe: The TV show?
Lucifer: Uh-huh. Watched all 12 seasons. It's riveting stuff. It's like watching a documentary of us.

Lucifer: Did you know there were 206 bones in a human body? Each of them a clue, sometimes twice. And the coccyx is not what it sounds.

Cain: I don't care who I have to hurt, as long as it allows me to finally die.

Lucifer: Pierce isn't Pierce. He's Cain from the Bible. And he's immortal. He's been around for eons. And all he cares about is ridding himself of that stupid curse that my Father put on him... Because he killed his brother.

Charlotte: What can I say? Things change.
Amenadiel: And why is that?
Charlotte: Because when you know a pair of angels that can zip you up to Heaven when the time comes... worrying is a waste of time.

Lucifer: Well, you hurt her plenty. And now? I'm gonna hurt you.

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A Generation Too Late

Billions 3×3

Axelrod: The prosecutors and the courts, they're like the mob, worse. They have methods of accounting that can taint most of it, all of it.

Axelrod: ...if I take into account everything that's run through the banking systems, everything that's on the radar, all that's left that I'm sure can't be touched is 300 mil, maybe 320.
Lara: Fuck, Bobby. I... I can't believe I'm saying this, but that just... it doesn't sound like it's enough.

Chuck: I don't duck. I return all my calls every day. Do people really do that, not return calls?
Wendy: Avoidance usually. Most people don't want to give bad news or admit they don't know the answer.
Chuck: What answer?
Wendy: To whatever the caller wants. Most people aren't the final authority, but they don't want to let on someone else is making the decisions.

Mafee: I got in this racket a generation too late, just like Tony Soprano.
Wright: Yep, this is how it ends.
Ben: Civilization?
Mafee: Uh-huh. Just like in Tommyknockers. First it makes things better for you. Then it destroys you. This is how computers take over the world.

Wags: Since 1602, when the Dutch East India Company first offered shares to the public, smart, highly trained mathematicians have tried, without success, to solve that market.

AG Jeffcoat: Might is a New Yorker's word. I don't want to hear it.
Chuck: It's a lawyer's word, sir. I'll need to examine the facts.
AG Jeffcoat: Don't condescend to me, Chuck. We went to the same kind of college, same damn law school, clerked in the same offices, read the same books on ethical justice by guys like Rawls and Dworkin. "The suppression of liberty is likely to always be irrational." I even bought in to that crap for a while. But a man has to grow into who he is, ...

Wags: ...you've studied the Flash Crash of 2010, and you know that "quant" is just another word for "wild fucking guess... with math."
Taylor: "Quant" is another word for "systemized, ordered thinking represented in an algorithmic approach to trading."
Wags: Just remember: Billy Beane never won a World Series.

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Wags: At Axe Capital, we support people from all cultures, but when you talk to me, it better be in fucking English.

Ira: Even if you slither out of the criminal courts, I hammer you like the Goldmans did O.J.
Axelrod: Ira, if that felon found a way not to pay a penny, what do you think I'm gonna do?

Mafee: ...are we good?
Taylor: I don't know. Are we? Are you? Are you running all four downs, playing every play like it's your last? Is your mouth guard always in, chin strap always buckled? If that's you, we're good.

Axelrod: Your best friend sold you down the river for nothing. ... I'm willing to pay you 30 million to tell the truth.

Bryan: We are in the right and wrong game, and this is...
Dake: Today we're in the "take the win and move on" game.
Bryan: ... Is that what being a boss does to you? Like when Sonny Black gets upped in Brasco?

Wendy: Your son is the man you made him. Whatever greatness and whatever darkness is in him came from you.

Taylor: ...And you're correct. Billy Beane never won a World Series. But Theo Epstein did, using all the same strategies Billy came up with first, and we will, too. I accept I can't go outside to find what we need, so we're going to build our own... I'm going to oversee it.

AG Jeffcoat: We are most certainly prosecuting. I read different websites than you do, watch different shows. The more your New York Times is blaring about Lugo's mistreatment, the more Breitbart is inflamed about a dead prison guard. This case has national attention now, so attention must be paid. You savvy what I'm saying to you, Chuck?

Wendy: I have yet to meet the man you can't outmaneuver. Find your angle.

Axelrod: You have been brought back to life, as promised. But it's not free. You can refuse right now, right here, but then everything will go away. Are you in?.. Are you in?..... Good. Then all is as it should be in the world.

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Orange Is the New Maze

Lucifer 3×19

Mazikeen: Not a blade. A knife. Forged in... I don't know, China.
Lucifer: Ah. Right, priceless.

Lucifer: Look, you-you clearly need to blow off some steam, don't you? Take your mind off Ameninda?.. No. Lindadiel?..
Mazikeen: Who needs a reason? I'm just evil.

Mazikeen: I'll end up in women's prison. I heard it's hell on earth, so... close enough.
Lucifer: Right. Well, maybe orange is the new Maze.

Lucifer: Well, we can't punish the innocent, or even the usually guilty but innocent this one time. It's the principle of the matter.

Charlotte: Tell me what you know, and don't lie to me. ...

Lucifer: Fine. Fine, I suppose you do deserve to know the truth. Okay, then. No sense dillydallying... I really am the Devil. ....

Lucifer: All right? There we are. All caught up. You wanted the truth? Well, there it is.

Charlotte: I was hoping that you could help clear things up with one simple question... What's my husband's name?

Dan: All I know is that they have a real connection. They're a package deal now. It's like... Say you fall in love with a woman who has a cat. What are you gonna do?... You accept the cat. Because she's worth it..... Lucifer's the cat.

Charlotte: Nah. At this point, things can't get any crazier.
Lucifer: You'd think...

Mazikeen: It's all so complicated here, Lucifer. Caring about humans always goes wrong. Feelings suck.

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Терри Гудкайнд — Воин по зову сердца

<< Разлученные души (Ричард и Кэлен — 3)

Ричард и Кэлен — 4

  “Чувствуя жар и головокружение, Кэлен у изголовья погребального костра выпрямила спину, неотрывно глядя на лежащее перед нею тело Ричарда. ...

&  Иногда будущее приносит только боль.

&  Прощение приходит изнутри.

&  – Родственные души не следует разделять.

&  Жизнь – бесценный дар. Он не собирался тратить ее впустую.

&  – ... Я и не подозревал о том, сколько всего происходит совсем не так, как я думал.
     – Что оказалось не так, как ты думал?
     – Все.

&  Если танец со смертью и научил его чему-то, так это тому, что его жизнь и жизни ни в чем не повинных людей не должны подвергаться опасности из-за сентиментальности. Смертельную угрозу нужно признать тем, что она есть. Подобные опасности следует немедленно устранять.

&  – Одно из Правил Волшебника, утвержденных мною давным-давно, – сказал Ричард, – гласит: «Страсть правит разумом».

&  – Похоже, такое часто случается с людьми, причастными власти... Они начинают разрушать то, что должны защищать.

&  – В нашем мире всем приходится умирать. Ни у кого из нас нет выбора. Выбирать мы можем только одно: как жить.

&  Регула знала все, что произойдет, все, что может произойти. Регула была одной из опор мироздания, мешаниной «вечного сейчас», включающего все возможные события.
     Ну, или она знала почти все. Свободная воля была ей недоступна.
     – В этом, – сказал Ричард, ... – смысл правила волшебника. Незнание будущего означает обилие возможностей, почти такое же, как у тебя. Иногда нам трудно выбрать из этих возможностей. Иногда приходится выбирать тяжелые и даже пугающие варианты. Этот выбор иногда и есть упоительная суть жизни, суть человечности.

&  – Не плачь по мне, пока я еще жив. Прошу тебя, дождись, пока я умру.

&  Всегда были и всегда будут люди, уверенные, что могут видеть будущее. Они либо заблуждаются, либо слишком легковерны, либо мошенники, которые стараются вытянуть у людей деньги, открывая им свою версию будущего.

&  Пророчество – порождение подземного мира. ... Воплощенная гибель свободы воли. Оно вызывало деградацию человечества, поскольку люди стремились к тому, чтобы пророчества помогали им принимать все без исключения решения. Все решения принимал за них мир мертвых. А теперь начиналась эпоха свободы воли.

  ... – Да. И да, Первый Волшебник, воин по зову сердца, только что дал тебе это слово.”

12 Strong

Jean Nelson: I don't care how long you're gone as long as you come back.

Jean Nelson: Say you're coming home.
Captain Mitch Nelson: I can't, baby. It's bad luck.
Jean Nelson: I need to hear you say it.
Captain Mitch Nelson: ... I'm comin' home.

Colonel Mulholland: The most important thing you take into battle, is the reason why.

Colonel Mulholland: This is from the towers. You carry that with you. Five weeks ago, 19 men attacked our country. The 12 of you will be the first ones to fight back. Go win this thing.

Captain Mitch Nelson: Something ain't right here.
Hal Spencer: Now, look. This is about being smart, not super human.

Captain Mitch Nelson: We're fighting with horsemen against tanks. You have an obligation to tell me everything you know.
General Dostum: You don't have a stomach for everything I know.

General Dostum: You will not win here because you are not honest with yourself. You expect victory without blood. ... Your anger comes from your fear because you live in a place where life looks better than afterlife. That's not this place. Here, Taliban kills everything you live for. Your mission will fail because you fear death. Mullah Razzan's men, the Taliban, they welcome it. Because they believe there is riches waiting for them in Heaven.

General Dostum: Greatest weapon in history is this. I don't have soldiers in my army, not one. Only warriors. Stop being a soldier. Start using this, and you can be a warrior, too.

Fred Falls: Who wins in a fight? Queen Elizabeth or Margaret Thatcher?
Vern Michaels: Jesus, Falls. Where do you come up with this shit?
Fred Falls: From the depths of my brilliant mind.

Captain Mitch Nelson: Well, you made the right choice.
General Dostum: Right choice? There are no right choices here. This is Afghanistan. Graveyard of many empires. Today you are our friend, tomorrow you are our enemy. It won't be any different for you. Soon America will become just another tribe here. You will be cowards if you leave. And you will be our enemies if you stay... Just know that you will always be my brother.

Sam Diller: We won the battle, you know. Still gotta win the war.
Captain Mitch Nelson: Yeah. That ain't up to us. Ain't our job anyway though, right?

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The Sibling Realignment

The Big Bang Theory 11×23

Amy: ...and a laminated table of elements because the American school system is a failure.

Leonard: I kept saying no. H-H-How am I here?

Sheldon: I am not a gullible little boy anymore. I can recognize sarcasm.

Bernadette: What if we tell him the theme of the wedding is Walking Dead and this is our zombie makeup?

George: And has he ever thanked you?
Leonard: Not in so many words... or any words.

George: Do you need me to sit on your head?

George: Sometimes you can't patch a tire. You just got to buy a new one... Actually, that's always the case. Never patch, buy new.

George: Sheldon. I know life has been hard for you, but that don't mean it's been easy for the rest of us.

Leonard: Is it me, or did we just patch a tire?

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Den of Thieves

Donnie Wilson: You good?
Ray Merrimen: We're cop killers now.

'Big Nick' O'Brien: I've got enough toxins in me to turn the Gaza Strip into a Gay Pride parade.

'Big Nick' O'Brien: I like you. Aside from the fact that you're a vegetarian.
Lobbin' Bob: Vegan! I'm a vegan. Vegetarians, they eat milk...
'Big Nick' O'Brien: Yeah, sorry to hear that.

'Big Nick' O'Brien: Do you know what this means?.. It means I am a member of a clique. It's kind of like being in a gang. Sort of like a gang... only we have badges... which means you are done.

'Big Nick' O'Brien: What do you get out of this? Well, your freedom for one. Two, you're not the bad guys. We are.

Donnie: They don't tell me. They don't talk much.
'Big Nick' O'Brien: Yeah, people with things to hide never have much to say.

Ray Merrimen: I ain't cuffing up.
'Big Nick' O'Brien: That's okay. I didn't bring my cuffs anyway.

'Big Nick' O'Brien: So what? They were going to make fucking snow globes? Like 10,000 of them?

Lobbin' Bob: Nick, you've got to stop smoking, man. Here... It's organic.

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An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains

Elementary 6×1

Holmes: What happened?
Dr. Hawes: Oh, I tore my Achilles. Softball. You'd figure somebody in my line of work would appreciate how fragile our bodies really are.

Det. Bell: Maybe he met someone. Or, knowing him, someone, her two friends and their pet tiger.

Holmes: I'm not well.

Watson: Okay, you said that you've been experiencing hallucinations? Is that what's happening right now?

Michael: Um, the last time I saw you at one was four years, ten months and 16 days ago.
Holmes: That's very strangely specific.

Holmes: Oh, what did I say?
Michael: “My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces, because it's not connected up to the work for which it was built.” Sorry. I actually wrote that down.

Holmes: Actually, Watson, I need to succumb to another symptom of my condition... I'm tired. I have to go to sleep.

Holmes: You know, I was recently reminded of our fleeting mortality, so I'm wondering if you're approaching a point.

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Baggage

The Handmaid's Tale 2×3

Luke: They have to be getting ready for an invasion. Down through upstate New York. It's 1775 all over again.

June: I'm grasping at straws, I know. But straws can be useful. One of the little pigs built a whole house of them.

June: You were there. All the time. But no one noticed you. All right. Not no one.

June: Better never means better for everyone.

Moira: I was a zombie when I got here, and it was just like, "Welcome to Canada. Here's your maple syrup..." They don't really give you maple syrup.

June: Who's they?
Omar: No idea. Someone brave or stupid. Or both. There's a lot of both.

June: Thank you for taking me in. For everything. So, are you brave or... stupid?
Omar: I'm not brave. So... there you go.

June: She knew. Moira, she always knew.

June: I waited before. I thought things might be okay. I swore I'd never do that again.

June: Blessed day.
Econowife: Blessed day. At least it's not raining.
June: All glory to God.

Erin: Blessed be the Froot Loops.

Pilot: Welcome to Platinum Executive Diamond Plus.

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Artificial Emotional Intelligence

Silicon Valley 5×6

Richard: Puking. That's my move.

Yao: ....Also free of charge. This concludes our tour. Any questions?
Gavin: Just one... What the fuck?!

Gilfoyle: I could create a credit system....
Richard: Do you think you could set those up by today?
Gilfoyle: More work. Fantastic.

Dinesh: That was an out-of-body experience! It was like God was coding through me. Time stood still.
Gilfoyle: Not for the rest of us it didn't.

Dinesh: The second these results go up, they're all going to see the only thing that matters... Who made less errors.
Gilfoyle: You mean who made "fewer" errors?

Dinesh: To show you I'm a gracious winner, I'll take you to a nice restaurant. Your favorite kind of restaurant. A "mis-steak" house!

Dinesh: I hope that book you're reading is for work... But if you wanna read for fun, you should read Gilfoyle's favorite author, George "Error" Martin.

Dinesh: As your supervisor, I wanted to inform you that there is a first aid kit, but if you need blood, don't go to Gilfoyle 'cause he's type-O. Typo!

Dinesh: They love it! They're all laughing at you.

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Monica: Nothing is personal with Laurie. Alright? It's what makes her such a great VC.

Big Head: Fiona, what's 12 times 157?

Richard: So you've just been out here all night, talking... to a robot?
Jared: .... I know that Fiona is a man-made piece of digital equipment... powered by artificial intelligence. But the level of that intelligence is... it's gobsmacking! I mean, I don't remember ever having a conversation like the one I've been having with her over the last 12 hours.

Dinesh: Oh yes! Playground games. Gilfoyle likes to play "Suck Suck Goose." Oh! Or it could be "Duck Duck Goofs."

Gilfoyle: You see... it is I who am the tortoise. And you are the hairy Arab who can now chortle my balls.

Gilfoyle: What's happening? Why did you do that?
Danny: Right after you forced me to set Dinesh up, I told the other engineers that if you won you'd immediately insult Dinesh by saying something sexually demeaning or racist. And you just did both.

Laurie: Richard, being a CEO is a terrible waste of time. And a horrible way to make a living.

Gavin: That's some old Chinese shit right there. I told you, you're a badass, Yao!

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