Professor Annalise Keating quotes from How to Get Away With Murder

Annalise

Stop saying that word, Bonnie!

Annalise

And win.

Annalise

You know this isn't about a bucket list or saving my reputation. It's about knowing that I've done something that matters. And I know that you want it, too, because I can see it in you. It's why I asked my family to be here and why I asked you to be here. Because winning this case will matter to me like... nothing in my life ever has. So stop worrying about me. Stop handling me. And let me do my job the best way I know how.

Annalise

Is he dead?

Annalise

This wasn't my fault.

Annalise

You needed to know.

Annalise

Racism is built into the DNA of America. And as long as we turn a blind eye to the pain of those suffering under its oppression, we will never escape those origins. The only safeguard people of color have is the right to a defense, and we won't even give them that. Which means that the promise of civil rights has never been fulfilled. Due to the failure of our justice system, our public defense system in particular, Jim Crow is alive and kicking- laws that made it illegal for blacks and whites to be buried in the same cemetery, that categorized people into quadroons and octaroons, that punished a black person for seeking medical attention in a white hospital. Some may claim that slavery has ended. But tell that to the inmates who are kept in cages and told they don't have any rights at all. People like my client Nathaniel Lahey and millions like him, who are relegated to a subclass of human existence in our prisons. There is no alternative to justice in this case. There is no other option. To decide against my plaintiff is to choose lining the pockets of prison owners over providing basic defense for the people who live in them. And is that the America that this Court really wants to live in? Where money is more important than humanity? Where criminality is confused with mental health? The Sixth Amendment was ratified in 1791. It's been 226 years since then. Let's finally guarantee its rights to all of our citizens.

Wes

How do you know it's one of her employees?

Annalise

I don't. I just know everybody hates their boss.

Annalise

He didn't do it.

Nate

You don't believe that. You planted Lila's phone in Griffin's car. [off his look] What? You surprised someone's on to your tricks.

Annalise

You should go.

Nate

I tried to give you an out. Don't forget that when this all goes to hell.

Annalise

Here's the thing, Mr. Walsh. You're not gonna trust me, that's just not in your nature. But you can stop worrying because and you might have forgotten this, but I'm your only option here. Without me, you'll go to prison.

Connor

That doesn't mean we won't end up there.

Annalise

No, it doesn't. But the odds are better with me.

Where are you going?

Annalise

To get us a murder case that didn't happen in this house.

Connor

Zoe would have killed again and I can not deal with anymore blood on my hands.

Annalise

You know where else there's blood? My husband's to be specific. Your car.

Connor

Laurel said that Frank got rid of it.

Annalise

That's a lie. Make me out to be the villian if it helps you sleep at night, but don't you ever screw with my cases.

Annalise

You want to know the truth? Asher was going to testify against everyone in this house, so Bonnie told him that she killed Sam in order to save your asses! Because that's what we do around here. Ruin everyones lives to save yours. Nate's, mine and now Bonnie's. Who's next, huh? Whose life do you want to destroy to stay free?

Michaela

Why didn't you just tell us?

Annalise

Because I'm trying to protect you like always. When are you gonna finally accept that?

Annalise

I couldn't not come.

Nate

Because you know what you took from me. She needed me. The whole time I was in jail, in court but I wasn't there. Because you stole that from us. The only time we had left together. You stole that! So no cobbler or apologies can fix that.

Annalise

Right. I would hate me too.

Nate

I don't hate you. I just don't care about you. I gave Nia those pills because I loved her. And I laid next to her in that bed, held her as she fell alseep. So close I could feel when she took her last breath. No one's ever gonna love you that way. Leave. Leave!

Annalise

You know more about me than most people.

Nate

That's sad because I don't know you.