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“A delusion starts like any other idea, as an egg. Identical on the outside, perfectly formed. From the shell, you’d never know anything was wrong. It’s what’s inside that matters.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 9
Tagged: delusions, delusional, wise
“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.”
— Noah Hawley, The Good Father
Tagged: Heartbreak, Death, Survival
“I don’t care if you save me or the world if you don’t save yourself.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 8
Tagged: Saving The World, Saving Yourself, Save Yourself
“Gus Grimly: They're gonna give me a citation for bravery.

Greta Grimly: You? Come on, you're afraid of spiders.

Gus Grimly: Buzz Aldrin was afraid of spiders, and he went into space.”
— Greta Grimly, Fargo, Season 1: Morton's Fork
Tagged: Buzz Aldrin, Spiders, Arachnophobia, Bravery
“Do what you want. Take what you want. Gods make rules. They don’t follow them.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 15
Tagged: God, Do what you want
“Son, I could fill out a steamer trunk with the amount of stupid I think you are.”
— Hank Larrson, Fargo, Season 2: Rhinoceros
Tagged: Stupid, insults, Sick Burns
“Jeb Cheney: You Minnesota boys don't got much in the way of backbone, now, do ya?

Hank Larsson: Well, now, I wouldn't say that. Just like to think things through.”
— Sheriff Hank Larsson, Fargo, Season 2: The Castle
Tagged: Minnesota, Backbone
“Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Crocodile's Dilemma
Tagged: Rules, Anarchy
“If evidence is collected, if confessions are made, if a verdict of guilty is entered in a court of law, then its happening becomes as the rocks and rivers, and to argue that it didn’t happen is to argue with reality itself.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love
Tagged: evidence, Confessions, guilty, Rivers
“Bear Gerhardt: There's gonna be a reckoning one day, brother. All souls are called to account for their actions. In the end, we all get what we deserve.

Dodd Gerhardt: You keep telling yourself that.”
— Bear Gerhardt, Fargo, Season 2: The Gift of the Magi
Tagged: Reckoning, Karma, Souls, last judgment
“Dodd Gerhardt: You got till tomorrow to bring the collection money you owe.

Rye Gerhardt: Or what?

Dodd Gerhardt: You make me wait for you again, I'll cleave your skull.”
— Dodd Gerhardt, Fargo, Season 2: Waiting for Dutch
Tagged: collection money, Extortion, Death Threats
“She was a true gloom, my mother. We used to eat in the dark. For a laugh, I wrote on her tombstone, 'Here lies Barbara Milligan, happy till the end.' Me, on the other hand, I'm an optimist.”
— Mike Milligan, Fargo, Season 2: The Gift of the Magi
Tagged: gloom, bummer, depressing, Tombstone, Epitaph, Prank, Irony
“Please keep talking so we can all pretend that our problems are just in our heads.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Keep Talking, Problems, All In Your Head, Mental Illness
“Where the pessimist sees danger hiding behind every back, the optimist sees friendship. Which is why, when we encounter coincidence, we often see conspiracy.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: Optimism, Pessimisim, Friendship, coincidence, Conspiracy
“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.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: crazy, Sanity, Mental Illness
“Human beings, you see, have no inherent value other than the money they earn. Cats have value, for example, because they provide pleasure to the humans. But a deadbeat on welfare? Well, they have negative value.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love
Tagged: Value, cats, Welfare, Pleasure
“I know things that would curdle your blood, including a formula that literally curdles blood.”
— Jack Hodgins, Bones, Season 1: The Woman in the Car
Tagged: blood-curdling, Literally
“When you become my age, you realize it’s not about the thing done. It’s the beauty of the plan.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: The Plan, beauty, Trust The Process
“It’s just Thursday. My 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship Mental Health.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Schizophrenia
“Is it such a terrible thing to feel sorrow for your enemy? What is he, except a brother with another name?”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 11
Tagged: enemies, Enemy, Loving Your Enemy
“Nikki Swango: Ray, there's a man in my bathroom.

Ray Stussy: Let's not jump to any conclusions.

Nikki Swango: Are you saying he's not a man or he's not in my bathroom?”
— Nikki Swango, Fargo, Season 3: The Law of Vacant Places
Tagged: Misheard, jumping to conclusions
“Mister, we're not friends. I mean, maybe we will be someday. But I gotta say, if that were me in your position? I would have killed that man.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Crocodile's Dilemma
Tagged: Friends, Empathy
“Saint Lawrence. Patron saint of hard asses. Burned alive by the Romans. You know what he said? ‘Turn me over. I'm done on this side.’ That's a goddamn saint.”
— Stavros Milos, Fargo, Season 1: A Muddy Road
Tagged: Saint Lawrence, Romans, Burned Alive, Bravery, Hard Asses
“Well, I'm saying that the Romans raised by wolves, they see a guy turning water into wine, what do they do? They eat him. 'Cause there are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Six Ungraspables
Tagged: saints, Animal Kingdom, Romans, wolves
“This is a community. People watch each other's backs. Someone gets sick, someone dies, you bring a casserole, help.”
— Ari Ziskind, Fargo, Season 1: The Six Ungraspables
Tagged: Community, help
“A whore's life is five good years, five bad years, and then some half-dick sweat stain grinds you out like a cigarette. Like a goddamn spent cigarette.”
— Dodd Gerhardt, Fargo, Season 2: Rhinoceros
Tagged: Whore, Prostitute, used up, dick, small dick, cigarette
“One’s eyes can be deceived. We see what we believe, not the other way around.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love
Tagged: Perception, Deception
“Vern Thurman: You'll make a good chief one day.

Molly Solverson: Me? What about Bill? He's got seniority.

Vern Thurman: Bill cleans his gun with bubble bath. No, it'll be you.”
— Molly Solverson, Fargo, Season 1: The Crocodile's Dilemma
Tagged: chief, Seniority, Gun, Bubble Bath
“A million dollars? He killed my damn dog and now he wants a million dollars? ‘Eat a turd’ is my response.”
— Stavros Milos, Fargo, Season 1: A Muddy Road
Tagged: Million Dollars, dog, turd
“Of course no one hangs the sad pictures. Am I right? Mom crying and dad looking angry. Kid with a black eye.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage
Tagged: sad pictures, Crying, angry, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse
“What is the universe without each sunrise? That’s how we judge our gods, not on their math but their poetry.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: sunrise, Universe, Poetry, Faith
“Human beings are the only animal that forms ideas about their world. We perceive it not through our bodies but through our minds. We must agree on what is real. Because of this, we are the only animal on Earth that goes mad.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 10
Tagged: humanity, Madness, Reality
“What if you’re not the hero? What if you’re just another villain? The real villain.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 9
Tagged: Heroes, Villains, Evil, Good Vs Evil
“The money is a tool, you see. Nothing more. Power. Because without power, who would listen?”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 17
Tagged: Money, Power, Money and Power
“If the idea of illness can become illness, what else about our reality is actually a disorder?”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 11
Tagged: Reality, Illness, Mental Illness
“Do you know what love is? It’s a hot bath. What happens to things when you leave them in a bath for too long? They get soft, fall apart.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 12
Tagged: Love, What love is, Things Fall Apart
“Madam, it’s just lazy to steal from someone without knowing their name.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy
Tagged: Theft, steal, Lazy, Rude
“Postal Worker: This is highly irregular.

Lorne Malvo: No, highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Rooster Prince
Tagged: Irregular, dismemberment
“Molly Solverson: You talk a lot, you know that?

Lou Solverson: It's always been a problem.”
— Molly Solverson, Fargo, Season 1: The Rooster Prince
Tagged: Problem, talking
“Burt Canton: She stopped putting it in her mouth soon as the ring went on her finger.

Lorne Malvo: Well, that's a national tragedy, Burt.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage
Tagged: blowjobs, Marriage, Dead Bedrooms, national tragedy
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