Scottie quotes from London Spy

Scottie

One way or another, I've been afraid for much of my life, and it's a privilege to spend time with a man who's never afraid of anything. And that's not because you were born in a different time — you're fearless. I've always wondered how that must feel. But, Danny, occasionally, it's right to be afraid. Leave this alone. Promise me.

Scottie

I believe you. I knew you were a young man who'd make a lot of mistakes. But never the same one twice.

Scottie

There's no art in trusting nobody. The craft of a spy has always been to choose the right people to trust.

Scottie

I can't count how many men I've comforted when their partners were dying and the family wouldn't allow them into the hospital, or the church where they're buried. I'm tired of it... tired of hearing about it. He wasn't close to his parents, he was close to you. Hold your own funeral, say your own goodbye.

Scottie

But those systems of oppression, as ruthless as they appear, as unbeatable as they seem, never hold, never last, never survive, for we will not live in fear. I would like to finish this particular adventure with you, Daniel Edward Holt. If you'll have me.

Scottie

I've always taken comfort from the idea that people don't care. That they have better things to think about, that there are more important matters to worry about. I like it when people walk past me and couldn't care less what I'm wearing, or whose hand I'm holding. The place where no-one cares. When I was young, I spent a lot of time searching for it, and I promised myself, if I ever found it, if it ever existed, that's where I'd make my home.

Scottie

You love falling in love. The moment when it's all possibilities and dreams.

Danny

You think he's out of my league?

Scottie

The thought never crossed my mind.

Danny

Where are we going to drink tonight?

Scottie

Somewhere dimly lit and terribly old-fashioned.

Danny

So we're on the doorstep, saying goodbye. And I'm trying to give him Pavel's number, because I don't have a phone except he doesn't write it down. And I'm like... "If you don't want to... if you don't want see me again..." And then he says, "Numbers, Danny, I have no problem with." Like he could remember every phone number in the world. And then... we shook hands! If you'd have told me a week ago I'd be this happy with a handshake at the end of a date... I'm sorry. I'll stop talking about him.

Scottie

It's all right, I understand.

Danny

It's just the feeling, you know? Not being able to think about anyone else.