Augustin Elizalde quotes from The Strain

What are you?

Thomas Eichhorst

I am your salvation or your downfall. Your choice.

An ancient truce has been broken. An act of war has been declared. We need a human soldier, who can move freely in the daylight. Someone who can use the power of the sun to massacre the unclean.

You know what it sounds like to me? Sounds like you got a vampire turf war going on.

You have proven yourself capable.

Why should I help them? Or you?

Payback. And a rich payday.

I'm listening.

The ancients are the past. I am the future.

Guess what. I'm not fighting for the Ancients. I'm not fighting for nobody but myself.

Cowardice. Ignorance. I sensed both as you ferried my coffin across the bridge into this city.

If that's the case, then what am I to you? Huh? What do you want from me?

Your mother's disappointment is still here. The torment you put her through in life. It lives along with her dumb animal love for her criminal son.

Taking someone's soul is not enough for you? You gotta put on their skin and dance around in their body?

Of course you fight for yourself. You always fight for only yourself.

Where'd you learn those manners? Same place you got your tattoos?

Okay, I get it, man. I thought I knew you, so you want to give me a hard time. So here it is. I went to prison. I was a thief. I wanted to be a fighter, but I couldn't make a living at it. So I broke my mother's heart, and I did a bid upstate. Now I'm nothing.

I don't get it, man. Why? Why me? Why me?

Mr. Quinlan

That is a question I learned to stop asking myself many centuries ago.