Marlize quotes from The Flash

Ah, I know that look. I felt the same after my 11:00 a.m. "Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Physical Thermodynamics" class. I was trying to explain terminal flow rates, and ten minutes in, I wanted to pull my hair out.

Clifford DeVoe

Well, it's a good thing I know water flowing into the axis of a tube is called...

Marlize

You better get this right.

DeVoe

Laminar?

Marlize

Aaah, so you do listen.

DeVoe

To you, always. Nothing matters to them (students) if it's not digestible in YouTube videos of talking babies or inane pet tricks.

Marlize

Have you seen the husky singing "Like a Virgin"?

Marlize

This doesn't make sense.

DeVoe

My mind is drawing energy from my body. Like a parasite feeding on an alien host. We're so close to everything we've ever dreamed of, only for it to be ripped away by this body.

Marlize

No no no no no no. We can stop this. We can. I'm never going to give up.

DeVoe

Twenty-six hundred individuals developed the metagene, they use it to rob jewelry stores and summon tornadoes. I use mine to save humanity, and I'm condemned? Dying wasn't part of our plan.

DeVoe

Science has long pondered what would be required to successfully transfer consciousness from one living being to another. But we've accomplished far beyond a simple transfer of consciousness. We've extracted that which elevates our humanity and added upon it. I am both who I was before [puts his hand on Marlize's cheek] and who I desire to become.

Marlize

[uncomfortable] Yes, you are... my love.

DeVoe

My hand still feels foreign upon your flesh. [removes his hand] And you don't care for it.

Marlize

No, I do.

DeVoe

As I said, I inherited my host's ability to read thoughts. We have never lied to each other before. Let's not begin now.

Marlize

... Okay.

DeVoe

Marlize. My love. See past this body. See past these eyes. See me. Clifford.

Marlize

[softly] Clifford.

DeVoe

I am nothing without you.

Marlize

Wolfe and Amunet's latest criminal undertaking throws an annoying wrench in our plans. What shall we do?

DeVoe

... I don't know.

Marlize

You? You don't know?

DeVoe

My mind is consumed by a near-infinite web of variables. They're more plentiful than there are atoms in an exploding star. So, for the moment, I do not know.

DeVoe

Every event occurred exactly as I predicted. Except the outcome!!

Marlize

You were supposed to defeat Siren-X.

DeVoe

No. The Flash was, but... Barry Allen just stood there, frozen. And now, I've lost my only nuclear meta. Because the Flash failed! Why? Why did he fail?

Marlize

Perhaps there were variables that we just didn't consider.

DeVoe

As I already explained, there is no variable beyond my examination.

Marlize

Even less apparent. The last time Barry Allen saw you, you took the life of his close friend. And now he sees you, and he pauses. You really don't see it. You can calculate near-infinite outcomes across multiple Earths, but you cannot account for how someone is feeling.

DeVoe

The Taoists, in pursuit of immortality, discovered gunpowder. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize so he wouldn't be remembered as the man who invented dynamite. History has shown us time and time again that whenever a technological advancement can be used to hurt humanity, it will be.

Marlize

You can't blame technology for the way men choose to use it, Professor.

DeVoe

You can't ignore that the best of ideas by the smartest of men often have a way of becoming corrupted.

DeVoe

Severity of our society's failings require extreme ideas if ever we were to restore some semblance of balance.

Marlize

[reading from DeVoe's journal] Technology has become a cancerous cell in our social biology. Excising [DeVoe tries and fails to grab the journal] would require a total purge, not only of the material world, but also human consciousness? This is not valance! This is lobotomizing people.

DeVoe

This is rebooting the masses' brains, to let them forget their technological crutches. They are babies with pacifiers.

Marlize

How and who will teach them? You, professor? How does any of this help humankind?

DeVoe

Don't you see? Marlize, our technology is killing us! And you and I, we can fix this, together. [kneels] As partners, we can lead them, all of society, humanity, on the true path to enlightenment.

DeVoe

The Enlightenment will come for you, too, Marlize. I will be all that remains.

Marlize

[mockingly] Oh, Clifford. You are nothing without me. [rises up on DeVoe's battle chair and disappears]

Iris

Your husband has gone too far, and I think you know it, or you'd be with him right now.

Marlize

Yes, I left my husband. But that doesn't change the fact that he's right. If anything, his betrayal proves his very point. Man corrupts even the best of ideas.

Iris

"Pessimism isn't smarter than optimism. In this life, the bravest thing you can be is optimistic."

Marlize

Familiar words.

Iris

You said them when you were at Oxford. Two weeks before you met Clifford DeVoe.

Marlize

I gave a speech. On technology and the elimination of world hunger. I truly believed it could be done.

Iris

He tried to change you, Marlize. But I think, deep down, you are still an optimist. You still believe in humanity. And I believe in you. You asked me what I was willing to do for my husband. And now I'm gonna ask you... What are you willing to do for the world?