Dr. Nora Martinez quotes from The Strain

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.

Nora Martinez

We're not hunting down human beings.

Ephraim Goodweather

They're hunting us!

Vasily Fet

How would you have handled it, hmm? Teach me something.

Nora Martinez

If someone was going to help him die, it should have been one of us. Someone who loved him.

Vasily Fet

Oh. But you weren't ready to do it.

Nora Martinez

I can't teach you how to be a human being. Eat your bologna.

Abraham Setrakian

I've, I've never confided this to anyone. I consume the worms to maintain my health.

Nora Martinez

You've been eating the worms?

Abraham Setrakian

Well, you can't ingest them orally. I discovered I needed to, uh, absorb them in solution through the eyes. Did you ever see this number on my arm? Did it not make you wonder about my age? I was a prisoner in a German death camp in 1944. I'm 94 years old. I need this to keep living. I've made my choice. It may be wicked, it may mean I go to a fiery and horrible place when I die, but it's too late to stop now. I will not stop. I'm going to win or die confronting the Master. I will not fade away as a weak old man.

Vasily Fet

They say one out of every four people are mentally unstable.

Nora Martinez

Luckily there's only three of us.

Vasily Fet

Not unless you include my invisible friend Donny.