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“[unimpressed after Malcolm Crowe's magic trick with coin] I didn't know you were funny.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: magic trick, unimpressed, Funny
“Cole Sear: You ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck?

Malcolm Crowe: Yes.

Cole Sear: And the tiny hairs on your arm, you know when they stand up? That's them. When they get mad...it gets cold.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: hair on the back of your neck
“Stop looking at me. I don't like people looking at me like that.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Don't Look At Me
“Cole Sear: She came a long way to visit me, didn't she?

Malcolm Crowe: I guess she did.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Long Journey
“Kyra Collins: [vomiting] I'm feeling much better now.

Cole Sear: Do you want to tell me something?”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Feeling Better
“De profundis clamo ad te, domine. Out of the depths, I cry to you, O lord.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: latin, prayer
“Malcolm Crowe: Do you know what free association writing is, Cole?

Cole Sear: No.

Malcolm Crowe: Free association writing is when you take a pencil in your hand and you put the pencil to a piece of paper and you start writing. You don't look at or think about what you're writing. And after a while, you keep writing long enough, words and thoughts come out that you didn't even know you had in you. It could be something you heard, something you saw, or feelings you had deep inside of you. Have you done any free association writing, Cole?

Cole Sear: Yes.

Malcolm Crowe: What did you write?

Cole Sear: Upset words.

Malcolm Crowe: Did you write any upset words before your father left?

Cole Sear: I don't remember.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: free association writing
“I'm ready to communicate with you now.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Ready, Communicate
“Cole Sear: Are you a good doctor?

Malcolm Crowe: Well... I used to be. I won an award once. From the Mayor. It had an expensive frame.

Cole Sear: I'm gonna see you again, right?

Malcolm Crowe: If that's OK with you.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Awards, mayor, good doctor
“Stanley Cunningham: Philadelphia is one of the oldest cities in this country. A lot of generations have lived here and died here. Almost any place you go in this city has a history and a story behind it. Even this school and the grounds it sits on. Can anyone guess what this building was used for a hundred years ago, before you went to this school, before I went to this school? Yes, Cole?

Cole Sear: They used to hang people here.

Stanley Cunningham: No, uh, that, mm-mm, that's not correct. Uh, where'd you hear that?

Cole Sear: They'd pull the people in, crying and kissing their families 'bye. People watching would spit at them.

Stanley Cunningham: Uh, Cole, this, this building was a legal courthouse. Laws were passed here. Some of the very first laws of this country. This whole building was full of, uh, lawyers, uh, lawmakers.

Cole Sear: They were the ones that hanged everybody.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Philadelphia, Hanging, Public Hanging
“Cole Sear: Tell me the story about why you're sad.

Malcolm Crowe: You think I'm sad? [Cole nods] What makes you think that?

Cole Sear: Your eyes told me.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Sadness, Eyes, sad eyes
“Cole Sear: What do you want more than anything?

Malcolm Crowe: I don't know.

Cole Sear: I told you what I want.

Malcolm Crowe: I know what I want: I want to be able to talk to my wife again. The way we used to talk to each other. Like there's no one else in the world except us.

Cole Sear: How are you gonna do that?

Malcolm Crowe: [sighs] Can't be your doctor anymore: I haven't payed enough attention to my family. Bad things happen when you do that. Do you understand? I'm gonna transfer you...

Cole Sear: Don't fail me! Don't give up: you're the only one who can help me I know it.

Malcolm Crowe: [looks away] ... I can't help you.

Cole Sear: [starts breathing unsteadily] You...

Malcolm Crowe: [looks back] Someone else can help you.

Cole Sear: [tear falls down right cheek] You believe me right? Dr. Crowe, you believe my secret right?

Malcolm Crowe: [looks away again] I don't know how to answer that, Cole.

Cole Sear: [breathing subsides and pushes penny across desk; Crowe looks at penny then Cole] How can you help me... if you don't believe me? Some magic's real.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Magic, Secrets
“Grandma says hi. [Lynn looks up sharply] She says she's sorry for taking the bumblebee pendant. She just likes it a lot.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Cruelty
“Cole Sear: [angrily] I don't like it when people look at me like that!

Stanley Cunningham: Like what?

Cole Sear: Stop it!

Stanley Cunningham: I don't know how else to look, I...

Cole Sear: You're a stuttering Stanley!

Stanley Cunningham: Excuse me?

Cole Sear: You talked funny when you went to school. You talked funny all the way to high school.

Stanley Cunningham: What...

Cole Sear: You shouldn't look at people, it makes them feel bad!

Stanley Cunningham: How did you...

Cole Sear: [screams] Stop looking at me!

Stanley Cunningham: [stutters] Who have you b-b-been speaking to?

Cole Sear: [repeatedly] Stuttering Stanley! Stuttering Stanley!

Stanley Cunningham: S-s-stop it!”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Stuttering, staring
“Cole Sear: Instead of something I want, can it be something I don't want?

Malcolm Crowe: Okay...

Cole Sear: I don't wanna be scared anymore.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Scared, wishes
“Turn your back on the pack, and the pack will turn on you. Any dog would tell you that.”
— Wilfred, Wilfred, Season 1: Compassion
Tagged: Betrayal
“Cole Sear: I walk this way to school with Tommy Tammisimo.

Malcolm Crowe: He your best buddy?

Cole Sear: He hates me.

Malcolm Crowe: Do you hate him?

Cole Sear: No.

Malcolm Crowe: Did your mom set that up?

Cole Sear: Yes.

Malcolm Crowe: Do you ever talk to your mom about how things are with Tommy?

Cole Sear: I don't tell her things.

Malcolm Crowe: Why not?

Cole Sear: Because she doesn't look at me like everybody else, and I don't want her to. I don't want her to know.

Malcolm Crowe: Know what?

Cole Sear: That I'm a freak.

Malcolm Crowe: Hey...you are not a freak. Okay? Don't you believe anybody that tries to convince you of that. That's bullshit! You don't have to go through your life believing that. Okay?

Cole Sear: You said the 's' word.

Malcolm Crowe: Yeah... I know. Sorry.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Freaks, School, Mom, Bullshit
“Anger is like herpes. You're not meant to keep it to yourself.”
— Wilfred, Wilfred, Season 1: Anger
Tagged: Anger, Spreading Anger
“Don't feel bad. You're a sexual being like everyone else in the room. Except for Steve of course.”
— Jim Jefferies, Legit, Season 1: Hoarders
“Malcolm Crowe: Wanna play a game? It's a mind-reading game. Here's how it works. I read your mind. If what I say is right, you take one step towards the chair. If what I say is wrong, you take one step back... towards the doorway. If you reach the chair, you sit down. If you reach the door, you can go. Wanna play? [Cole nods] Okay... When your mother and father were first divorced, your mom went to see a doctor like me, and he didn't help her. So you think I'm not going to be able to help you. [Cole takes a step forward] You're worried that she said she told him things—things she couldn't tell anyone else... Secrets. [Cole takes another step forwards] You have a secret, but you don't want to tell me. [Cole takes another step forwards…looking at Cole's watch] Your dad gave you that watch as a present just before he went away. [Cole takes a step back]

Cole Sear: He forgot it in a drawer. Doesn't work.

Malcolm Crowe: You keep pretty quiet in school, but... you're a good student, you've never really been in any serious trouble. [Cole takes another step back]

Cole Sear: We were supposed to draw a picture. Anything we wanted. I drew a man. He got hurt in the neck by another man with a screwdriver.

Malcolm Crowe: You saw that on TV, Cole? [Cole steps back again]

Cole Sear: Everyone got upset. They had a meeting. Mom started crying. I don't draw like that anymore.

Malcolm Crowe: How do you draw now?

Cole Sear: I draw... people smiling, dogs running, rainbows. They don't have meetings about rainbows.

Malcolm Crowe: No, I guess they don't.

Cole Sear: What am I thinking now?

Malcolm Crowe: I don't know what you're thinking now. [Cole takes his last step back towards the door]

Cole Sear: I was thinking... you're nice, but you can't help me. [walks away]”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Mind-Reading, Games
“Cole Sear: [of his grandmother] She wanted me to tell you...

Lynn Sear: Cole, please stop...

Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... 'Every day.' What did you ask?

Lynn Sear: Do... Do I make her proud?”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Dancing, Memories, Childhood
“Cole Sear: I see dead people.

Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams? [Cole shakes his head no] While you're awake? [Cole nods] Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?

Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.

Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?

Cole Sear: All the time. They're everywhere.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: dead people, Dreams, zombies
“You're worse than a guy, you're like a frat guy.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: insults
“No live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
— Steven Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Steven Sees a Ghost
Tagged: Reality, Harsh Reality, Knowing The Truth Is Too Much, Never Know The Truth, Truth
“Cole Sear: You know the accident up there?

Lynn Sear: Yeah.

Cole Sear: Someone got hurt.

Lynn Sear: They did?

Cole Sear: A lady. She died.

Lynn Sear: Oh, my god. What, you can see her?

Cole Sear: Yes.

Lynn Sear: Where is she?

Cole Sear: Standing next to my window.

Lynn Sear: Cole, you're scaring me.

Cole Sear: They scare me too, sometimes.

Lynn Sear: They?

Cole Sear: Ghosts.”
— Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense
Tagged: Accidents, Ghosts
“Imagine the worst thing possible, assume it's true, and go from there.”
— Theodora Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
Tagged: Cynical, Worst case
“When you're little, you learn how to see things that aren't there. And when you grow up, you learn how to make them real.”
— Olivia Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
Tagged: Growing Up, Getting Older, Dreams, Realizing Your Dreams
“I'm going to fix her. That's what I do.”
— Shirley Crain, The Haunting of Hill House, Season 1: Open Casket
Tagged: Fixing People, Needing To Fix
“I would like you to know the only reason I’m doing this is cause’ folks think they know me. They think they know what I’m about, and the truth is, they don’t me.”
— Nola Darling, She's Gotta Have It, Season 1: #DaJumpoff
“All in all, then, a few half-baked and plagiarized punchlines from puberty are both less revealing and less relevant than an outrage cycle would have us believe.”
— Miles Klee, When Should We Save Someone From Being 'Canceled'?- MEL Magazine
Tagged: Cancel Culture, The internet

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