The Magicians (TV Series)

The Source of Magic (2016)

Hale Appleman: Eliot Waugh

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• Eliot Waugh : I'm going to tell you something deep and dark and personal. Ready? Good. Okay. I killed someone.

  Quentin Coldwater : What?

  Eliot Waugh : I was 14. He was this - He beat me up. So I'm walking on the street eating a candy bar, 'cause by then I already ate my feelings at a professional level, and I saw him crossing over. And there was this bus coming... I barely thought the thought. Bam. I knew immediately what I'd done, that it was me. My nose literally started bleeding. Logan Kinear died instantly and I ruined my favorite button-down. And that is the story of how I discovered I was telekinetic.

  Quentin Coldwater : If you're trying to tell me that it gets better...

  Eliot Waugh : Oh, God, no. No, it doesn't. I'm trying to tell you, you are not alone here. Funny little irony they don't tell you, magic doesn't come from talent. It comes from pain.

• Quentin Coldwater : You do not have to make me feel better, we - really, we basically just met each other.

  Eliot Waugh : Well, I bond fast.

• Eliot Waugh : Look, don't go out there and be the old you.

  Quentin Coldwater : How, Eliot? I go back there, and I'm a depressed super nerd.

  Eliot Waugh : How about I find you, and I don't say magic is real, but I do seduce you, and so lift your spirits that life retains its sparkle for decades.

• Eliot Waugh : Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.

• Quentin Coldwater : I don't know, I keep trying to tell myself this is somehow better, you know, not to know. 'Cause who would want to know that - that magic exists if there's nothing you can do about it, you know, if there's no one to teach you or help you.

  Eliot Waugh : I don't know what to say.

  Quentin Coldwater : Of course you don't, because nobody would rather not know. You don't see color and want to go black and white.