The Best TV Series Quotes of 2020

You and I both know the outcome of this battle has already been decided. But not by men. By the other women who spin our fates.Lagertha, (to Gunnhild), Vikings, S6.Ep6: Death and the Serpent

When you’re young, you think that everybody out there really, really gets you. But, you know, actually, only a handful of them do. All the people who like you, despite your faults. And then if you discard them, they will never come back. So, when you meet those people, you should just hold on to them. Really, really tightly. And don’t let them go.Remi Milburn, Sex Education, S2.Ep8: Hold My Hand

I don’t think you should look at yourself as the person who always gets left. You should look at yourself as the person who’s willing to stay and fight.Kevin Pearson, (to Madison), This Is Us, S4.Ep12: A Hell of a Week: Part Two

True punishment is served not in prison, but in one’s soul.Cardinal Voiello, (to Sofia), The New Pope, S1.Ep8

People come into our lives exactly when they should.Nina Locke, Locke & Key, S1.Ep8: Ray of F**king Sunshine

When the facts before you are so filled with uncanny coincidences that perhaps the first step to seeing things clearly is not to find a way to dismiss those facts, but to expand your sense of what reality might entail.Holly Gibney, The Outsider, S1.Ep6: The One About the Yiddish Vampire

Life is a long journey where maps were drawn by a fool.Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, Narcos: Mexico, S2.Ep5: AFO

Being yourself, that is a magic stronger than any wish.Nora Darhk, Legends of Tomorrow, S5.Ep4: Slay Anything

Sometimes when you’re trying to protect your own world, you threaten the worlds of those you love the most.Sister Harriet, Hunters, S1.Ep4: The Pious Thieves

Hearts are amazing things. I’ve held one in my hands many times. You’d never know it by looking at them, but somehow they have all the room we need.Audrey Lim, The Good Doctor, S3.Ep16: Autopsy

It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hellscape of a world that matter most. A book, a name, chicken soup. They help us remember that even in our darkest hour, life is still to be savored.Poe, Altered Carbon, S2.Ep7: Experiment Perilous

Two sweetest words in the English language, “miss,” “trial.”Jimmy McGill, Better Call Saul, S5.Ep4: Namaste

Peace, love, friendship. These are precious, because we know they cannot endure.Data, Star Trek: Picard, S1.Ep10: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

Fighting for your life makes every other thing you ever did before seem extremely dull.Wendy Byrde, Ozark, S3.Ep9: Fire Pink

Betrayal doesn’t depend on how or how much you love someone. It depends on the magnitude of the dilemma before you.Berlin, Money Heist, S4.Ep2: La boda de Berlín

Nothing can take the place of someone you love being gone. But that doesn’t mean that everything that follows is gonna break your heart.Daryl Dixon, (to Judith), The Walking Dead, S10.Ep15: The Tower

Justice is an equation. Justice equals the law times the zeitgeist. The law on its own doesn’t stand up. You need the mood of the times on your side.Diane Lockhart, The Good Fight, S4.Ep1: The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality

People live and die by their words. They shape our thoughts and deeds. Often, they define us. Like bullets, once fired, we can’t take them back. They have impact, so choose them wisely. Make them meaningful. Live a life worthy of them, especially your last words. They outlive us.Roger MacKenzie, Outlander, S5.Ep8: Famous Last Words

Divorces are easy. It’s marriages that are impossibly hard.Carolyn Martens, Killing Eve, S3.Ep1: Slowly Slowly Catchy Monkey

You can’t go through life being afraid of things that are unfamiliar to you.Evelyn Finkel, (to Philip), The Plot Against America, S1.Ep5: Part 5

When you do find a fella, dance with him when he wants.Tony Johnson, (to Sandy), After Life, S2.Ep5

An empty throne provokes more trouble than a weak king.Uhtred, The Last Kingdom, S4.Ep5

Even if we last for a thousand years here, it’s gonna feel short when it’s over, and we’re out of time with the people we care about.Nathan Brown, (to Dave), Upload, S1.Ep7: Bring Your Dad to Work Day

Free will does exist. It’s just f***ing hard.Dolores Abernathy, (to Caleb), Westworld, S3.Ep8: Crisis Theory

Friends say “so long” or “until we meet again”. They don’t really say good-bye.Ralph Dibny, (to Frost), The Flash, S6.Ep18: Pay the Piper

Scars show that you went through something hard, and you survived. And it’s your story.Jen Harding, (to Ben), Dead to Me, S2.Ep8: It Had to Be You

The generation that won World War II was exposed to so much awful reality that they made mostly good decisions for a long time after. Forget history, and you are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Forget how bad polio was, people stop taking vaccines. Forget how bad world wars are, people start puffing out their chests. The real enemy is arrogance.Mark Naird, Space Force, S1.Ep10: Proportionate Response

You can forgive people. Even the people who hurt you worst. When you forgive someone, it’s more for you than them.Justin Foley, 13 Reasons Why, S4.Ep10: Graduation

All families have their secrets. There’s a reason windows have curtains.Maria Vega, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, S1.Ep7: Maria and the Beast

Most dangerous thing in the world: government employees who don’t hate their jobs enough to take a bribe.Mike 'Wags' Wagner, Billions, S5.Ep6: The Nordic Model

There are jobs that feed the ego, and there are jobs that make a difference. Politics does both. It’s vanity without the bitter aftertaste.Georgina Hobart, The Politician, S2.Ep4: Hail Mary

Lost causes aren’t lost if there’s someone to fight for them.Rita Farr, Doom Patrol, S2.Ep3: Pain Patrol

Any fool can die. Living takes imagination.Merlin, Cursed, S1.Ep9: Poisons

Jazz is like a beautiful woman. Complex, emotional, hard to please. She doesn’t just give it to you, she makes you work for it.The Handler, The Umbrella Academy, S2.Ep6: A Light Supper

Stories are like people. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You just try and cherish them, overlook their flaws.Atticus Freeman, Lovecraft Country, S1.Ep1: Sundown

In my experience, problems are like Bible salesmen, or genital warts. If you pretend they’re not there, sooner or later, they disappear.Lucifer Morningstar, Lucifer, S5.Ep4: It Never Ends Well for the Chicken

Belief in the unreal can comfort the human mind, but it also weakens it.Mother, Raised by Wolves, S1.Ep1: Raised by Wolves

A stranger is just a friend you ain’t met yet.Billy Butcher, The Boys, S2.Ep3: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men

There’s something poetic about coming into this world, this living, breathing thing, and then leaving it as nothing more than a forgotten pile of ash.Mildred Ratched, Ratched, S1.Ep4: Angel of Mercy: Part Two

Do you know what life is really all about? Keys. See, people are like locked rooms. They’ve all got different locks and you’ve got to guess the shape of their key.Peter Quint, (to Miles), The Haunting of Bly Manor, S1.Ep3: The Two Faces, Part One

Memory’s like a card catalog but the cards are all mixed up.Virginia, Fear the Walking Dead, S6.Ep2: Welcome to the Club

A fancy vocabulary doesn’t mean you’re scary. It means you have a thesaurus.Philippa Georgiou, Star Trek: Discovery, S3.Ep2: Far from Home

It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it. And it’s predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.Beth Harmon, (about a chessboard), The Queen's Gambit, S1.Ep3: Doubled Pawns

It is never a good idea to take measure of ourselves through the eyes of the joyless.Jonathan Fraser, The Undoing, S1.Ep1: The Undoing

Every country has its own type of criminal. In America, we got the confidence man. Snake oil salesman, grifter. He don’t rob you as much as trick you into robbing yourself. See, ’cause in America, people want to believe. They got that dream. And a dreamer, you can fleece.Loy Cannon, Fargo, S4.Ep7: Lay Away

There is a limit to what one can do if people are themselves limited.Margaret Thatcher, The Crown, S4.Ep4: Favourites

Fate sometimes steps in to rescue the wretched.Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, S2.Ep6: Chapter 14: The Tragedy

Once you understand something, you can master it.Marisa Coulter, His Dark Materials, S2.Ep5: The Scholar