The Magicians (TV Series)

We Have Brought You Little Cakes (2017)

Jason Ralph: Quentin Coldwater

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Quotes 

• Alice Quinn : Why did you bring me back?

  Quentin Coldwater : Why do you keep asking me that? I watched you almost die trying to bring your brother back. You loved him. I love you.

• Nigel : I like you. You care about things.

  Quentin Coldwater : Yeah, it's not really a trait that's helped me much.

  Nigel : But it could be if it were applied to not trying to fix the unfixable, but rather something fresh and more perfect, like, say...

  [Gestures to his "Cuba" globe] 

  Nigel : Care to take a visit? Make some notes?

  Quentin Coldwater : [stammers]  I... uh... I...

  Nigel : I'm sorry, but you're acting like I'm asking you. Whereas I am a god and you are a hairless monkey. So nod and say thank you.

  [Quentin nods] 

  Nigel : All right. Let's go to the pocket world formerly known as Cuba.

• Nigel : How's the linguini?

  Quentin Coldwater : There's nothing wrong with it.

  Nigel : [Writing]  Excellent. That's excellent.

  Quentin Coldwater : [Clears throat]  It's maybe a little, uh-...

  Nigel : Chewy?

  Quentin Coldwater : Bland.

  Nigel : Bland good, or...?

  Quentin Coldwater : Bland is never really good or bad.

  Nigel : It appeals to all tastes.

  Quentin Coldwater : Sure, but usually people, uh creatures who can think, gods even sometimes like the unknown, the unexpected, even the offensive. Little bit of, uh...

  [Trails off] 

  Nigel : Chaos.

• Alice Quinn : When I was a-a niffin, I saw things. I saw everything from the beginning of time.

  Quentin Coldwater : Calm down

  Alice Quinn : No, I understand the way the universe works, Q, the Wellspring, the hierarchies, the plumbing. I was inside it. Gods like Ember have parents, you idiot!

  Quentin Coldwater : I'm not following.

  Alice Quinn : The old gods, the creators of the universe, of all magic itself. To Ember, we're like we're like toys, but to them we're we're cells. When we're harmless they ignore us, but when we become malignant, they amputate.

• Josh Hoberman : I was online last night-...

  Dean Fogg : The answer is no. There is no actual evidence of a magical surge in Sedona, Arizona.

  Josh Hoberman : Yeah, but what about in-...

  Dean Fogg : Or Kenya, or Machu Picchu, or China or anywhere. Magic is gone. The best we can do is accept that, and continue our theoretical studies, to stay ready for its return.

  Alice Quinn : So you think that's possible?

  Dean Fogg : Anything is possible, Alice.

  Quentin Coldwater : [Quietly]  Was, anyway.