Legion Quotes (Season 1)

Look at me, I know what I am.

You know the most dangerous thing about schizophrenia? The most dangerous thing is believing you don’t have it. That’s the trick. The mind killer. Your disease convinces you, you don’t have it. So, for example, one day in the hospital, you meet a girl and she has some friends and they tell you you’re not sick. You have super powers. And more than anything, you wanna believe it because that means you’re not crazy. It means you can fall in love and live happily ever after. But you know if you believe it if you surrender to the hope and you’re wrong, then you’re never coming back.[to Syd]

Who teaches us to be normal when we’re one of a kind?

We moved through a city of normals, soldiers in a secret war. We were the ghosts in a haunted house, the golem of myth. To the normal, we were just superstition, make-believe. Sometimes it felt like that to us too. To me, I was a woman who couldn’t be touched, in love with a man who wasn’t there. What was real?

Just promise me, if you get lost, we get lost together.[to David]

I tell them I’m sane, they think I’m crazy, and if I say, “You know what? You’re right, I am crazy,” then they up my dosage.

Please keep talking so we can all pretend that our problems are just in our heads.

It’s just Thursday. My 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship Mental Health.

I’ll watch for you as best I can, but things get muddy out there in the vast subconscious. Remember, it’s not real unless you make it real.[to David]

Everybody in here keeps saying that I’m sane. What if they’re wrong?

When a plate breaks, you don’t fix it, you just get another plate.

Well, kid, you better learn to fly like a bird, because the age of the dinosaur is over.[to Clark]