A story could have a mediocre beginning and middle, and oftentimes it does, but always gotta have a wow ending. Otherwise, what’s the point?
You know that bullet we took out of you? We can easily put it right back in.[to Elliot]
World catastrophes like this, they aren’t caused by lone wolves like you. They occur because men like me allow them. You just happened to stumble into one of them.[to Mr. Robot]
We staged the biggest coup in human civilization and the whole world volunteered to take part. Opted in, checked the box, and clicked, “I agree.”
They packaged a fight into product. Turned our dissent into intellectual property. Televising our revolution with commercial breaks. They backdoored into our minds and robbed our truth, refurbished the facts, then marked up the price. This is what they do. It’s what they’re good at. This is their greatest trick. Lobotomizing us into their virtual reality horror show.
Our paths were too precisely linked to this moment for there not to be a reason. This is why. You get to decide.
Nothing creates profit quite like global conflict.
Just because you beat a man’s face to a pulp don’t mean he gonna know what he don’t.
I’m not someone you push around with a gun. I am the gun.[to Vera]
I have learned to listen when time speaks.
We do f***ed up things to each other. And we hurt each other, and it gets messy, but that’s just us, in any world you’re in.[to Whiterose]
They were so powerful, they wrote the laws to benefit themselves. They got away with everything because they banked on us, all of us, to trust the system. That was our vulnerability, and they took advantage of it.
