Jessica Jones quotes from Jessica Jones

You can either go with a police escort or make me use valuable manpower to force you. Out of respect for my partner, I'm asking you to make it easy.

Jessica

My mother is wounded.

That's not gonna slow her down.

Jessica

You know how she survived that accident? Know how she survived all those surgeries? That is sheer stubborn determination. I am the only one who can handle her.

Like you handled her when she killed Sunday? Ruth Sunday was a damn good cop. We had our differences, but she'd still be alive if I didn't trust you. It's over. Just get out of the way, let us do our job.

Trish

Where am I?

Jessica

The morgue.

Trish

Am I dead?

Jessica

No, but you should be after that stupid shit you pulled.

Trish

Why am I here?

Jessica

My mom broke out and she tried to kill you. So the cops are stashing you here in case she comes back.

Trish

Dr. Karl?

Jessica

He's gone.

Trish

He's gone? As in?

Jessica

He's dead.

Trish

[sighs] My one chance. Why couldn't you just let me have it?

Jessica

Because if that insane surgery hadn't killed you, you could've ended up like my mom.

Trish

Or I could've ended up like you.

Jessica

Why would you want that? There is a reason that my biggest expense is booze.

Trish

You're right. You don't deserve powers. All you do is piss them away when you could be out there helping people.

Jessica

You know what? I am tired of being the focus of your ridiculous insecurity. I didn't ask for any of this. Not these powers and not your goddamn judgment.

Jessica

There is no "we."

Alisa

But there could be.

Jessica

No. You killed that possibility. Along with a cop.

Alisa

I had no choice. They were never gonna let me live.

Jessica

There is always a choice. Your brain is just too goddamn broken to ever make the right one.

Jessica

You could have crushed my skull.

Alisa

But I didn't. I held back.

Jessica

[scoffs] Is that supposed to reassure me?

Alisa

Yes! I controlled it.

Jessica

Because you love me?

Alisa

Or because I carried you inside me, or because we're both powered, or because we've both lost too much. We don't have to lose each other.

Jessica

You're insane.

Alisa

And you're my cure.

Jessica

Do not put that on me.

Alisa

And I'm yours.

Jessica

I am not the one who's sick. I help people, I have a life.

Alisa

You're drunk, 24/7. You're numbing yourself. Is that a life? You can make it better. We can be better, together.

Jessica

I won't leave Trish.

Alisa

She's destroying herself because of you.

Jessica

Thanks. Like I didn't already feel shitty enough.

Alisa

No. People will always feel "less than" around us. And that will make them either resent us or idealize us. Even Karl. [Jessica scoffs] Some days he put me on a pedestal. Others, he probably wished he never met me. Dimming our light, limping our way through life, that is not an option. Not with the gifts we have.

Jessica

If you say, "With great power comes great responsibility," I swear I'll throw up on you.

Alisa

Wouldn't be the first time, you were a barfy baby. [chuckles]

Oscar

You have us, me and Vido.

Jessica

That, right there. You connect yourself to your son with every thought. You have no idea how isolated I've been. I had no idea.

Oscar

They'll come after you.

Jessica

We'll make it, I just need the papers.

Jessica

What happened to being a team?

Alisa

Best dream I ever had. I have gone as far as I can go.

Jessica

No, you don't get to quit. Not after what you put me through.

Alisa

I've done a lot of damage in my life, but somehow you're standing on top of the rubble like a shining light.

Jessica

Stop talking to me like I'm your baby Jesus.

Alisa

"Hero" isn't a bad word, Jessica. It's just someone who gives a shit and does something about it.

Jessica

Well, I don't, I don't give a shit.

Alisa

Yes, you do. You do. It sucks, and it hurts, but you do. You are far more capable than I ever was. Maybe I don't have to be amazing. Maybe I just made you.

Jessica

Don't talk about my mother. Ever.

Dorothy

I understand, family is family. But Trish is your family too. Nothing can undo that. You have a chance to save her life.

Jessica

Been there, done that. Get out.

Dorothy

Trish was the only good thing about you!

Trish

Maybe it's better if you just stay out of the way

Jessica

Why? Because you're a hero now?

Trish

Yes.

Jessica

The world's moral compass who knows good from bad?

Trish

Maybe. And now I'm finally equipped to do something about it.

Jessica

So it was worth it then, what you did to me. Because you got what you wanted.

Trish

You don't get it, Jess. You're free. You always said you didn't ask for this, but I did. So you can stop trying and feeling guilty and inadequate. I don't need you to be a hero. Nobody does. I've got it covered.

Jessica

Your mother's looking for you. Call her so I can get paid. [leaves room]

Erik Gelden

I have an instinct for idiocy.

Jessica

Is that good or bad?

Erik

Don't know, don't care.

Jessica

Some people might say that you lack a moral compass.

Erik

I have never, not even once, given a shit about people like that.

Jessica

I wish I could say the same.

Erik

You do give a shit?

Jessica

According to my mother.

Erik

She'd know. [pause] That sucks, whatever happened.

Jessica

Who said something happened?

Erik

Something always happens. Everything is terrible. Optimism is a lie. Expect the worst.

Jessica

Jesus, thanks for the pep talk.

Erik

It's reality. I accept it and proceed accordingly.

Jessica

To low expectations. [toasts Erik]

After a splenectomy, normal life can resume, provided one takes precaution against an increased risk of deadly infections.

Jessica

I'll start taking a multivitamin.

A rigorous immunization schedule, prophylactic antibiotic regimen, and, of course, a swift change in any reckless lifestyle behavior.

Jessica

And where would a liter a day of bourbon fall on the reckless scale?

Trish

Vengeance, not justice? That's not what a hero does.

Jessica

You've been a hero for five minutes. I've been one half my life.

Trish

You've been super, Jess. There's a difference.

Jessica

Hey, uh, what's the cheapest thing you got?

Hot pretzel.

Jessica

What's the cheapest thing you got that doesn't taste like salted cardboard?

Hot dog coming up.

Erik

Our luck is changing.

Jessica

“Yeah, if you set the bar at being drowned and stabbed.

Jessica

Say I wasn’t here and you’d found out what he was doing, what would you have done.

Erik

Asked for more money.