“Greeks Bearing Gifts” quotes from Torchwood

Jack

Once, just once, I'd like to walk into one of these tents and find it's a party, with food, and drink, and dancing; a girl crying in the corner.

Owen

I started looking into devil worship and stuff from that era [the 1800s], see if there's anything about plucking out hearts, and would you believe it, there's nothing! They ate eyeballs, they drank blood, they had sex with animals, but they did not pluck out each others' hearts, because obviously, that would have been weird.

Ianto

[Thinking] Can't imagine a time when this isn't everything. Pain so constant, like my stomach's full of rats. Feels like this is all I am now. There isn't an inch of me that doesn't hurt. [Out loud] I'm about to brew some of Jack's industrial strength coffee. Would you like a cup?

I'm ... fine, thanks Ianto.

Jack

My guess is you're not from around these parts.

What's most amazing are the similarities with our own culture. But that can be horrible, 'cause we find lots of weapons and it just makes you think, "My God, everything wages war." It's not just a trait of ours, but a trait of existence. It makes you feel so hopeless! But then there are times... we found this thing, it was about A-4 size, and it had all these symbols on it. And it took me about three months to translate, and it was a letter someone had written to his family, to his children, to say how much he was missing them! It just made me cry, because I thought, even across these unimaginable distances, there are fundamentals that stay exactly the same. And there's no one to talk to about this. I mean, the guys at work, they're great, but they don't see it the way I do.

So, I'm shagging a woman and an alien.

Which is worse?

Well, I know which one my parents would say...

Why couldn't I read your mind?

Jack

I don't know. But I could feel you scrabbling around in there. [grins]

I got nothing. It's like you were, I don't know...dead. [Jack's grin fades]