The Best TV Series Quotes of 2019

I have to retrieve the sugar bowl, then I’m going up to the roof to retrieve the Medusoid Mycelium, then I’m going down to the lobby to poison everyone, then I’m going back up to the roof to escape the authorities. It’s a lot of ups and downs, but hey, so is life.Count Olaf, A Series of Unfortunate Events, S3.Ep6: Penultimate Peril: Part 2

Nature doesn’t give a damn what you believe. Faced with survival, we all give in to our darkest self.Yanek (to Howard), Counterpart, S2.Ep5: Shadow Puppets

It doesn’t take strength to hate someone. It takes strength to forgive them.Glow, The Gifted, S2.Ep11: meMento

Love isn’t about grand gestures, or the moon and the stars. It’s just dumb luck. And sometimes, you meet someone who feels the same way. And then, sometimes, you’re unlucky. But one day, you’re gonna meet someone who appreciates you for who you are. I mean, there’s seven billion people on the planet. I know one of them is gonna climb up on a moon for you.Otis Milburn (to Liam), Sex Education, S1.Ep7

The thing is, we’re all here in this New World not because it’s new. These lands are as old as any. It’s only new because there is hope, and hope is at the very heart of love.John Grey, Outlander, S4.Ep11: If Not For Hope

It’s easier to make good choices when you surround yourself with good people.Rich Dotcom, Blindspot, S4.Ep10: The Big Reveal

If you run, you can’t see what’s coming up from behind you.Frank Castle, The Punisher, S2.Ep3: Trouble the Water

If you’re always waiting to live your life, you’re gonna die before it starts.Ralph Dibny, The Flash, S5.Ep12: Memorabilia

Sexualizing self-hatred is the hallmark of any relationship that begins with extra-marital infidelity.Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, S1.Ep5: Superiority Complex

If you believe in yourself for once, just once, great things are gonna happen for you.Leonard Peabody, The Umbrella Academy, S1.Ep5: Number Five

You have to do whatever it takes to protect what you love, even from themselves.Alpha, The Walking Dead, S9.Ep12: Guardians

You can’t live for other people. You have to be true to yourself.Larry Trainor, Doom Patrol, S1.Ep4: Cult Patrol

You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself.Tony Johnson, After Life, S1.Ep6

If the world is full of monsters, the only way to defeat them is to become one yourself.Bane, Gotham, S5.Ep10: Legend of the Dark Knight: I Am Bane

The best place to hide something is in plain sight. Things that are hidden out in the open are the most difficult to see.Prairie Johnson, The OA, S2.Ep7: Nina Azarova

Sometimes dreams have to be tempered by reality.The Widow, Into the Badlands, S3.Ep10: Chapter XXVI: Raven's Feather, Phoenix Blood

Now does matter. What happened before no longer exists. What will happen next has not yet been written. We have only now. That is our greatest advantage. What we do now, here, in this moment, has the power to determine the future.Spock, Star Trek: Discovery, S2.Ep11: Perpetual Infinity

A simple act of kindness can blow more people away than any bomb ever could.Sheila Hammond, Santa Clarita Diet, S3.Ep6: The Chicken and the Pear

Money, the most influential god in America. Untouchable a**hole, but his stock never falls.Mr. Wednesday, American Gods, S2.Ep4: The Greatest Story Ever Told

The more reliable rule of the world is: The aggressor always moves forward the science first.Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod, Billions, S4.Ep4: Overton Window

Never trust people on their looks. You can see scary people a mile away, it’s the good people you have to worry about.Villanelle (to Gabriel), Killing Eve, S2.Ep1: Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?

You cannot undo your past. You can only learn from it.Talus, Knightfall, S2.Ep4: Equal Before God

Bad things happen, but you can’t get rid of your past because then you’d lose the good parts, too.Betty Cooper, (to Alice), Riverdale, S3.Ep18: Chapter Fifty-Three: Jawbreaker

Sometimes for the good of the relationship, you have to put yourself outside of your comfort zone.Sara Lance, Legends of Tomorrow, S4.Ep13: Egg MacGuffin

Smoking is the greatest thing that slowly kills you.Judy Hale, Dead to me, S1.Ep1: Pilot

What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.Valery Legasov, Chernobyl, S1.Ep1: 1:23:45

You shouldn’t have to change for anyone. And neither should I.Lucifer Morningstar (to Eve), Lucifer, S4.Ep8: Super Bad Boyfriend

The truth is what you make it. You build the facts into the truth that serves your purpose. If it stops serving your purpose, you rebuild it into something else. That’s what keeps you from being a slave to how people define you. That’s how you become your own person. You define what truth is.Roland Blum, The Good Fight, S3.Ep9: The One Where the Sun Comes Out

What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it.Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones, S8.Ep6: The Iron Throne

I didn’t mean to fall. I just hung around the wrong people.Crowley, Good Omens, S1.Ep2: The Book

Anger alone is no prescription. We need to figure out how to take that anger and turn it into action.Tom Kirkman, Designated Survivor, S3.Ep1: #thesystemisbroken

Wear the dress. Pull the strings.June Osborne (to Serena), The Handmaid's Tale, S3.Ep4: God Bless the Child

You don’t decide to trust someone. It happens, or it doesn’t, no matter how much you want it to.Jessica Jones, Jessica Jones, S3.Ep10: A.K.A Hero Pants

There’s nothing to be done about past mistakes. We need to fix what’s in front of us.Eli McCullough, The Son, S2.Ep8: All Their Guilty Stains

Drugs are kind of cool. I mean, they’re cool before they wreck your skin. And your life. And your family. That’s when they get uncool. It’s actually a very narrow window of cool.Rue Bennett, Euphoria, S1.Ep2: Stuntin' Like My Daddy

People are never really gone. Because they live on in the hearts of those they leave behind.Mary Louise Wright, Big Little Lies, S2.Ep4: She Knows

We all die, my strange little child friend. It’s just a matter of how and when.Robin Buckley (to Dustin), Stranger Things, S3.Ep7: Chapter Seven: The Bite

Happiness is a lightning bolt. An exhalation lasts, and then, you fall. And when you touch the sky, the fall is huge.Tokyo, Money Heist, S3.Ep7: A Quick Vacation

Everyone always asks, what’s our special weakness? Gamma rays? Iron daggers? Some ridiculous, stupid thing? The truth is, our weakness is the same as anyone’s. It’s people. The people we care about.Queen Maeve, The Boys, S1.Ep7: The Self-Preservation Society

We have to learn about love before we can learn about hate. Otherwise, everything goes to hell.Oliver Bird, Legion, S3.Ep6: Chapter 25

A son can hate his father and it’s the father’s job to forgive.Avery Sunderland, Swamp Thing, S1.Ep10: Loose Ends

You can hear that somebody’s gone. You can see it for yourself. And even then, you still can’t believe it. Sometimes you just can’t say goodbye.Morgan Jones, Fear the Walking Dead, S5.Ep9: Channel 4

One’s expansiveness of spirit needn’t be reflected by one’s personal surroundings.Kay Manz, Mindhunter, S2.Ep5

No matter what may come, or where we go, if it’s one person in the mirror or all of us, we remember how good we are.Tony Padilla, 13 Reasons Why, S3.Ep6: You Can Tell the Heart of a Man by How He Grieves

Sometimes death is a kindness.Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders, S5.Ep1: Black Tuesday

A man’s no better than the pain he’s caused to the people he loves and what he’s willing to do to set it right.Rycroft Philostrate, Carnival Row, S1.Ep4: The Joining of Unlike Things

Anyone can learn how to say words, but so few ever master the art of communication.Lincoln Potter, Mayans M.C., S2.Ep3: Camazotz

All you need to have the freedom to do whatever you want is two things: God and trauma.Margaret Booth, American Horror Story, S9.Ep2: Mr. Jingles

Would you like some advice? Find some way to bring music into your life.Georgina Hobart, (to Payton), The Politician, S1.Ep6: The Assassination of Payton Hobart

Sometimes doing what’s right for you and just you, no cause, no religion, no man, it ain’t selfish at all. Sometimes it’s just righteous.Tulip O'Hare, Preacher, S4.Ep10: End of the World

There’s the cost of living and the cost of dying. Seems you’re paying the price whether you’re coming or going.Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot, S4.Ep2: 402 Payment Required

Not everybody has a god, but everybody has a religion.Morgan Reznick, The Good Doctor, S3.Ep4: Take My Hand

We’re all alone. That’s why we have friends. To make the loneliness easier to take.Holly Gibney, Mr. Mercedes, S3.Ep7: The End of the Beginning

Maybe anywhere could be the Laughing Place if we’re there together.Annie Wilkes (to Joy), Castle Rock, S2.Ep1: Let The River Run

The process is really saying goodbye to what you first imagined, and saying hello to what you discover.Eileen 'Candy' Merrell, The Deuce, S3.Ep8: Finish It

When you work behind a desk, your friends don’t get killed. They don’t get captured. They don’t go down in helicopters. But it’s the work, it’s the real work that still needs to get done.James Greer, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, S2.Ep8: Strongman (October 31, 2019)

Books are in the holy shape. They are silent, and yet they speak directly into the imagination. You can burn them, but they are more powerful than fire. All the knowledge of the ancient ones are put into them.Paris, See, S1.Ep2: Message in a Bottle

Sometimes women can’t ask for control, so they have to take it.Alex Levy, The Morning Show, S1.Ep3: Chaos Is the New Cocaine

When your life unfolds into a nightmare, you pray your dreams will take you elsewhere.Alice, Batwoman, S1.Ep5: Mine Is a Long and a Sad Tale (November 3, 2019)

Sometimes you’ve got to have dreams.Lyra Belacqua, His Dark Materials, S1.Ep1: Lyra's Jordan

Men who end up hanging from trees with secret compartments in their closets tend to think of themselves as good guys. And those who protect them think they’re good guys, too. But here’s the thing about me, Sister Night: I eat good guys for breakfast.Laurie Blake, Watchmen, S1.Ep3: She Was Killed by Space Junk

I have spoken.Kuiil (repeated line), The Mandalorian, Chapter 1

We’ve seen things, you and me. Other worlds. Other lives. We have that in common. It’s unbearable. To be able to look through that door and glimpse all the people you could have been. And to know that out of all of them, this is the one you became.John Smith, (to Juliana), The Man in the High Castle, S4.Ep10: Fire from the Gods

Show your strength, but then show them a smile, and most will give you what you want.Klaes Ashford, The Expanse, S4.Ep10: Cibola Burn

Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same.Geralt of Rivia, (to Stregobor), The Witcher, S1.Ep1: The End's Beginning

Remember, we chose to go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard.Ellen Waverly, For All Mankind, S1.Ep10: A City Upon a Hill

Sometimes a man gets exactly what he wishes for, and that can be the most perfect punishment of all.Joe Goldberg, You, S2.Ep10: Love, Actually