The Strain quotes

Abraham Setrakian

[voiceover] Hunger, a poet once said, is the most important thing we know, the first lesson we learn. But hunger can be easily quieted down, easily satiated. There is another force, a different type of hunger, an unquenchable thirst that cannot be extinguished. It's very existence is what defines us, what makes us human. That force is love.

Abraham Setrakian

Listen very carefully, son. I know your little friend has a gun and the hammer is cocked, but I don't care. I can control your entire body weight from this pressure point. And this knife is pointing straight at your radial artery. By the time he clears his coat pocket, your artery will be punctured and sliced wide open from top to bottom. You fall down bleeding, I go under the counter and your friend starts shooting at an empty space. I can guarantee you this. You will bleed out before the 9-1-1 operator answers the phone. That is Option One. Option Two is you release the bills, your friend gives me the gun – he can keep the bullets, I don't care – and you leave this store. Now, son... you have a choice.

Ephraim Goodweather

You don't like terrorists? Try negotiating with a virus. A virus exists only to find a carrier and reproduce. That's all it does and it does it quickly. It has no political views, it has no religious beliefs, it has no cultural hang-ups and it has no respect for a badge. It has no concept of time or geography. It might as well be the Middle Ages, except for the convenience of hitching a ride on a metal tube flying from meal to meal to meal. That's how a plague begins. So... you still want to be the first one through the door?

Eldritch Palmer

Throughout my life I've learned what it feels to cross a line, to do things. Things that cannot be undone. That line it has been crossed now, hasn't it?

Thomas Eichhorst

The great game is over, Jew.

Abraham Setrakian

Not while I still breathe.

Thomas Eichhorst

Amazing. Despite all evidence to the contrary, you cling to the delusion that you will prevail. Don't tell me you still believe in that God of yours. So where is He? Why has He done nothing? Face the truth. He is nothing but a figment of your imagination. Your arrest report says you were apprehended with an antique sword. Is it Sardu's?

Abraham Setrakian

Don't worry. I will give it back to your Master in due time.

Ephraim Goodweather

Hi, my name's Eph. I'm an alcoholic. I've been sober one year and eleven days. I'm in therapy. Learning about myself. It's a journey of discovery. Uh, I'm passive-aggressive and actively aggressive, which is a rare combination, I'm told. Let's see, what else? I'm controlling. I'm self-centered. I'm emotionally distant for my family. Oh, and the greatest sin of all: I love my work. But I'm taking it all in, you know, I'm owning it. And it's really making a difference. My wife's divorcing me, and screwing this new dude in my bed. In my house, on which I'm still making payments. There I go again, right, Richard? My sponsor says that I use sarcasm to avoid my real feelings, that if I truly loved Kelly, I would be happy for her, I wouldn't resent her. I'm trying, Richard. But it is a very steep hill.

Thomas Eichhorst

The sun has fallen. You are very fortunate, Mr. Palmer. He has chosen you to bear witness to his glory. Welcome to the New World.

You brought me all the way here. Aren't you going to look at me?

Comment as-tu? (French, "How are you feeling?")

Faim. ("Hungry")

Vasily Fet

I got an elementary school, a hospital and a church and you want me to go to this guy first?

His daughter was bitten by a muncher, and he's a hedge fund manager and a major contributor. So yes, you will go there first and you will be - on your best behavior. Got it?

Vasily Fet

I'll wear my top hat and monocle.

Thomas Eichhorst

zum Sieg. (German, "To victory.")

Nora Martinez

What was in that coffin?

Abraham Setrakian

A thing of enormous power and terrible will. A will to devour the world and swallow the light.

Nora Martinez

Is the military covering it up?

Abraham Setrakian

Do not be so easily distracted. He thrives on human self-interest and bureaucratic complacency. You and Dr. Goodweather, you think that being good is enough? Being good means nothing, unless you are willing to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done.

I want this rat found and killed.

Vasily Fet

I'm not here to rehabilitate it.

Dutch Velders

It's much harder to hide evil shit these days, isn't it?

Nora Martinez

We're not hunting down human beings.

Ephraim Goodweather

They're hunting us!

Vasily Fet

Rats don't migrate like that unless they lose their food source, or something disturbs them. There's plenty of food down there. Something is driving them out of their nests.

Like what?

Vasily Fet

A bigger predator.