Fallen Angel

Altered Carbon 1×2

Quellcrist Falconer: Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems... peace doesn't last long.
     Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.
     The instinct of violence curls inside us like a parasite, waiting for a chance to feed on our rage and multiply until it bursts out of us. War is the only thing we really understand.

Takeshi Kovacs: You want answers, they come with questions attached.

Takeshi Kovacs: I'm gonna need access that you don't wanna give, and I'm gonna find answers you may only think you want.

Takeshi Kovacs: You wanted me to work for you. I'm working for you. You want my respect? That's a little harder to come by.

Laurens Bancroft: I admire a man who can look over the edge without flinching. Might make a Meth of you yet.

Quellcrist Falconer: Rage at injustice is universal. The ability to strike back is not.

Quellcrist Falconer: And at its heart, violence is almost always, in one way or another... personal.

Takeshi Kovacs: I knew I shouldn't go... 'cause when the victors rewrite history, it's just another kind of war, waged after the battlefield killing is done... to murder the memory of the defeated.

Takeshi Kovacs: See, friends are overrated, 'cause eventually, someone will come along and shoot 'em in the stack. You're better off alone.

Miriam Bancroft: Enough? It's an interesting word. I'm not familiar with it.

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Out of the Past

Altered Carbon 1×1

Quellcrist Falconer: First thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see, what you hear, what people tell you, what you think you remember... We are Envoys, and we take what is offered.

Quellcrist Falconer: Let experience wash over you. Absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing. Only then can you be prepared for anything.

Quellcrist Falconer: One thing I can promise you: coming back from the dead is a bitch. Every single time.

Quellcrist Falconer: Make it personal. It is you. You are the weapon. You are the killer and the destroyer.

Kristin Ortega: What were you in for?
Takeshi Kovacs: You know, little bit of this, little bit of that. Blew some shit up and killed some people. Some people just need killing.
Kristin Ortega: And how do you decide who deserves to die?
Takeshi Kovacs: Depends on the day. I mean, anything can set me off. Interstellar dictatorship, genocide, people who talk too much.

Kristin Ortega: Everyone knows Bancroft. He's one of the first founding Meths-- You don't know what's a Meth? How can you not know? You're dressed like one.
Takeshi Kovacs: Like I said, I'm not from around here.
Kristin Ortega: "And the days of Methuselah were 969 years."

Takeshi Kovacs: I don't want your money or your pardon. I'll take eternity on ice, thanks.
Laurens Bancroft: You should take the day, Mr. Kovacs. Go into the city, remember what it is to feel alive, and then give me your answer. Oh, and please do take the book. Like everything else I'm offering you, it's yours... if you want it.

The Raven Hotel: Ask this of your microwave, miscreant! Apologies.

Quellcrist Falconer: Two hundred and fifty years is long enough. Move on.

Quellcrist Falconer: There's more here than you're willing to see. It's not the threat. It's the unanswered question. The mystery that needs to be solved. The box that needs to be unlocked. Envoys take what is offered, Tak. Take this chance. This is how you finish the mission.

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