The Magicians (TV Series)

The Source of Magic (2016)

Jason Ralph: Quentin Coldwater

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• Eliot Waugh : I'm going to tell you something deep and dark and personal. Ready? Good. Okay. I killed someone.

  Quentin Coldwater : What?

  Eliot Waugh : I was 14. He was this - He beat me up. So I'm walking on the street eating a candy bar, 'cause by then I already ate my feelings at a professional level, and I saw him crossing over. And there was this bus coming... I barely thought the thought. Bam. I knew immediately what I'd done, that it was me. My nose literally started bleeding. Logan Kinear died instantly and I ruined my favorite button-down. And that is the story of how I discovered I was telekinetic.

  Quentin Coldwater : If you're trying to tell me that it gets better...

  Eliot Waugh : Oh, God, no. No, it doesn't. I'm trying to tell you, you are not alone here. Funny little irony they don't tell you, magic doesn't come from talent. It comes from pain.

• Quentin Coldwater : You do not have to make me feel better, we - really, we basically just met each other.

  Eliot Waugh : Well, I bond fast.

• Eliot Waugh : Look, don't go out there and be the old you.

  Quentin Coldwater : How, Eliot? I go back there, and I'm a depressed super nerd.

  Eliot Waugh : How about I find you, and I don't say magic is real, but I do seduce you, and so lift your spirits that life retains its sparkle for decades.

• Eliza : Can I level with you?

  Quentin Coldwater : I wish you would.

  Eliza : You're not very remarkable. You're smart, but no genius. You do magic, but nothing special. And the worst is, you're so eager to belong, you even forget why you're here.

  Quentin Coldwater : Why *am* I here?

  Eliza : You dreamed of it, didn't you, "Fillory", before the attack, like a warning?

  Quentin Coldwater : Yeah, did you - how did you...?

  Eliza : Because I've dreamed of it too. And I've looked into that Beast's eyes. What? Do you think you have a destiny?

  Quentin Coldwater : Um, yes

  Eliza : Yeah. I used to believe that crap too when I was young. There is no destiny, no born heroes. I can't tell you why - why The Beast came sniffing for you. There's no reason it should be you. You can either step up to it or not, it's up to you. We'll just hope for the best.

• Quentin Coldwater : I need you to remind me that magic is real. Without Brakebills, I'm lost.

• Quentin Coldwater : I don't know, I keep trying to tell myself this is somehow better, you know, not to know. 'Cause who would want to know that - that magic exists if there's nothing you can do about it, you know, if there's no one to teach you or help you.

  Eliot Waugh : I don't know what to say.

  Quentin Coldwater : Of course you don't, because nobody would rather not know. You don't see color and want to go black and white.

• Prof. Pearl Sunderland : You can materialize objects?

  Quentin Coldwater : I've been doing card tricks half my life. I guess some of them were disappearing