- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Brakebills South didn't have a lot of things. Livable weather, edible food, cable TV, but you know what it did have?
- [whispers]
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Windows. So if you don't know and saw your little, *little* extracurricular activities, you'd be very mistaken foxes.
- Quentin Coldwater: ...I was above average for a fox.
- Mike McCormick: I don't know about music and wine, and frankly any country not named Texas.
- Eliot Waugh: Texas is a state.
- Mike McCormick: Not when you're from Texas.
- Alice Quinn: Can we just talk about this seriously for a second? What we did was stress and circumstances, and pheromones.
- Quentin Coldwater: The first time, but not the next four.
- Alice Quinn: You were counting?
- Quentin Coldwater: Mike is, uh, Eliot's boyfriend, I guess. He was trying to kill me before Penny jumped in the way. Could it have anything to do with the Beast?
- Dean Fogg: Why would it?
- Quentin Coldwater: Because it makes more sense than somebody *new* trying to kill me.
- Alice Quinn: [Disscussing their most prized possessions] Okay, what's yours, hmm?
- Quentin Coldwater: That's kind of a personal question for two people who aren't supposed to be in the same room? What's yours?
- Alice Quinn: A quilt that my grandmother made me when I was little. It's covered in cats.
- Quentin Coldwater: "Fillory and Further", book one, first edition. I worked all summer before eighth grade to get it. It's predictable I know.
- Alice Quinn: Predictable's not bad, Quentin.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: [Quentin is making a doll of Penny] Is that a turban ?
- Quentin Coldwater: No, it's your hair... Sowing's not really my thing...
- Quentin Coldwater: What's wrong?
- Eliot Waugh: I have nothing to wear.
- Quentin Coldwater: You think that might be, I don't know, hyperbole?
- Eliot Waugh: I am not emotionally prepared for Mike to see me repeat outfits.
- Quentin Coldwater: I think this might be a Margo problem.
- Eliot Waugh: Obviously, Quentin, but she shacked up with some artiste at Encanto Octulo, and, so, I'm stuck with you.
- [Holds up clothes]
- Quentin Coldwater: Honestly, all vests look the same to me.
- Eliot Waugh: I made a horrible mistake asking you to help.
- Quentin Coldwater: I mean, why us?
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: You, I get. I think about stabbing you all the time.
- [Quentin laughes]
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: That was a 100% not a joke.
- Quentin Coldwater: You realized that knife was coming at me before you jump in the way of it, right? I owe you, like, a Wookie Life Debt.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Get a knife. I'll stab you right now.
- Alice Quinn: Q, this is it.
- Quentin Coldwater: You think, Penny's most prized possession is his Adderall?
- Alice Quinn: If I had voices telling me, all day long, to do dark magic and I don't know, the pills were the one thing that make them stop, they'd be pretty precious.
- Quentin Coldwater: You can always get more pills. They're fungible.
- Alice Quinn: *You're* fungible.
- Eliot Waugh: Where do you think I come from?
- Mike McCormick: [chuckles] I don't know. Someplace with money?
- Eliot Waugh: Well, um, we did have money. Until grandmama gambled it all away and now, all we have is titles.
- [Mike is silent]
- Eliot Waugh: Um, that was a joke.
- [sighs]
- Eliot Waugh: I was born in Indiana... on a farm. My parents are farmers.
- Mike McCormick: Indiana? I - I thought you...
- Eliot Waugh: Of course you did. Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.
- Eliot Waugh: [to Alice and Quentin] How was Brakebills South? Did anyone freeze to death?
- Quentin Coldwater: Oh, I mean, it was... it was eventful.
- Eliot Waugh: Why is your face making that face? Oh, my God.
- [Turns to Mike]
- Eliot Waugh: They totally had sex.
- Mike McCormick: Yeah.
- Alice Quinn: [Speaking simultaneously with Quentin] No, nothing happened.
- Quentin Coldwater: I mean, it just happened.
- Eliot Waugh: [to Alice] Let me guess. You got drunk on Mayakovsky's lichen vodka and you seduced him.
- Quentin Coldwater: Maybe I seduced her.
- Eliot Waugh: Please.
- [Back to Alice]
- Eliot Waugh: And sweetie, getting drunk and porking a dungeon master is nothing to be a ashamed of.
- Alice Quinn: The idea is you look at the list of ingredients and try to figure out what the spell does.
- Quentin Coldwater: [Picks up a plant] Yeah...
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Maybe, we should move on, if we wait for the simpleton, we'll be here all night.
- Quentin Coldwater: Okay, if you understand, then explain it.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: It's a healing spell. I've seen that welwitsch-whatever in the infirmary.
- Alice Quinn: Actually, trick question. It's a welwitschia mirabilis, the leaves are used for both, healing spells and for doing exotic curses.
- Quentin Coldwater: ...I thought it was a fern.
- Quentin Coldwater: It is the Beast, isn't it? And he's from Fillory, which is real.
- Eliza: Of course Fillory is real. You've known that since you were a child. It's why you're here.
- Quentin Coldwater: Okay, but there's no Beast in the books.
- Eliza: The books are a child's drawing of Fillory. The real thing is... stranger.
- Richard: The reason you treat magic like a drug, is because the people that taught it to you act like drug dealers. They buy it and they sell it, and they fight and they fuck for it. Well, that's not the only way to live.
- Julia Wicker: That's the only way I've ever seen.
- Richard: I'm a very good Magician and I do this. There are good people out there, Julia. People trying to learn about the world and make it a better place. Now, you can be one of those people, you can be a dealer, you can stay here and be nothing. You get to choose.
- Eliza: You need to read between the lines, Quentin. Jane's doll wasn't special because it looked like Jane. Was special because of where it came from. Jane's mother gave it to her before she died. It was all she took with her to Fillory. Her only reminder of her family and her life on Earth. It was her most precious possession. What we love can be as important to us as our lives. So, the curse accepted the doll as a proper sacrifice in place of Jane's heart.
- Eliza: You can't hide in Fillory forever. Lock as many doors as you want, there's always a door to Fillory when you need one.
- Mike McCormick: [Poceesed by the Beast] Nothing's changed. Still the same determined little Jane Chatwin.
- Dean Fogg: There are no answers, Quentin. Because we have no idea what's going to happen next. Most likely outcome: The Beast comes back. Specially now that he's gotten Eliza out of the way. You die, your friends die, we all die. Very bloody. And all of this, will have been for nothing.
- Eliot Waugh: Guys, this is my friend Mike. He graduated a few years ago and lives in New York, and Margo tried to kill him with a Djinn, but we fixed it.
- [to Mike]
- Eliot Waugh: This is Alice, that's Quentin. They are nerds.
- Mike McCormick: I could kind of tell.
- Healer Faye: It's spreading too quickly to be an infection.
- Professor Lipson: The wound is cursed. Whatever it is, is growing under the skin. He's lucky it's not near any vital organs. The necrotizing tissue-...
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Necrotizing?
- Healer Faye: Cell death within the tissue.
- Professor Lipson: If it touches something important-...
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: How do you fix it?
- Professor Lipson: [sighs] Without seeing the knife I I have no idea.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: I hate magic.
- Richard: Look, you think magic is some terrible vice, so bad that you need rehab to get clean, it's not. Magic isn't heroin, Julia. It's a gift.
- Julia Wicker: Oh, god, please. Don't say from God.
- Richard: I'm not the guy outside of YMCA yelling at people to repent.
- Julia Wicker: Then what are you, Richard?
- Richard: Okay, what we call magic is, a set of tools. Leftover from Creation.
- [Julia scoffs]
- Richard: Think about it. The power to bend reality, to make and unmake.
- Julia Wicker: Won't God be pissed we touched His tools without asking?
- Richard: God - gods, really, they don't do things by accident. The tools were left for us to find.
- Julia Wicker: What was that? That you gave me?
- Richard: Did it work?
- Julia Wicker: It didn't feel like I was doing a casting, it felt like a casting was being done on me.
- Richard: It's because it's not a spell, it was a prayer.
- Julia Wicker: To what?
- Richard: Local harvest deity. Friendly, but a little one-trick. You're lucky she answered. She's pretty shy.
- Julia Wicker: It's like touching a bare wire. More energy than I've felt.
- Richard: It felt good.
- Julia Wicker: It felt dangerous.