The Magicians (TV Series)

Mendings, Major and Minor (2016)

Jason Ralph: Quentin Coldwater

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Quotes 

• Margo : One spell so powerful, it wiped the whole board. To Quentin!

  [Cheers] 

  Margo : Q, come on. Celebrate. Who knew you had it in you? Easily worth whatever it's gonna cost to replace the roof.

  Quentin Coldwater : I don't care.

  Margo : I get your dad is sick, but like it or not, you still have to think about your future, and this matters for that.

  Quentin Coldwater : One of the mentors came up to me after the game and asked me to come to the Fertile Crescent to stalk a river dragon. I said no, 'cause grand scheme, none of that matters.

  Margo : Why do you think you were able to do that? Please tell me someone has pointed out to you that magic doesn't come from sunshine and ice cream, for any of us. What you're born with, what gets slammed on you as a kid, what happens now, like your dad... A great way to get what you want is to be so miserable that you don't want it anymore.

  Quentin Coldwater : What kind of system is that? Why can't it run on love, or... cocaine?

• Quentin Coldwater : How could you know about all this and become a podiatrist?

  Eliot Waugh : This isn't Middle Earth, Quentin. There aren't enough noble quests to go around.

• Quentin Coldwater : What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems?

  Dean Fogg : We can fix some things. So we fix what we can.

• Eliot Waugh : His name is Gerald, but everyone calls him Cancer Puppy. He's sort of our unofficial mascot.

  Quentin Coldwater : Why does he have cancer?

  Eliot Waugh : Because he's 150, Quentin. The enchantment just keeps him a puppy forever; it doesn't stop him from being riddled with every single disease it's possible to be riddled with. They've been taking him to a very confused veterinarian in Ogdensburg.

• Quentin Coldwater : Why didn't you fix your eyes?

  Dean Fogg : The glasses show me outlines. I can live with that. If I had to choose between my eyes or my hands, I'd rather be able to cast. It's on the first page of your first textbook, Quentin. "As magicians, we are the instrument and the medium. We are the chisel and the marble".

  Quentin Coldwater : I read it. I just-...

  Dean Fogg : But you didn't listen, did you? Yes, you can save someone's eyes. You can even save someone's life, but you might alter their soul in the process.

• Ted Coldwater : I have a glioblastoma. It's the most common type of brain tumor. It's also the most severe.

  Quentin Coldwater : But it's treatable?

  Ted Coldwater : There are treatments available. I chose not to pursue them.

  Quentin Coldwater : You know, I Googled brain tumors just in general, and one common denominator that jumps out at you is impaired cognitive function,

• Eliot Waugh : Hey Alice, Is that Genji?

  Quentin Coldwater : Do you guys know her?

  Margo : Everyone does. She runs a retreat. It's like Camp David for magicians.

  Eliot Waugh : If Camp David was run by Caligula.

  [to Alice] 

  Eliot Waugh : I mean that in the best way.

• Quentin Coldwater : What's Welters?

  Eliot Waugh : The worst.

  Margo : It's a game designed a billion years ago to keep students from killing each other in duels.

  Eliot Waugh : It's like chess. Kind of. Not really. You use magic to take squares. It's terrible.

  Quentin Coldwater : I don't know. That sounds kind of fun.

  Eliot Waugh : It's boring as death.

  Margo : *You're* boring.

• Doctor Meers : Do you know why Dean Fogg didn't fix his eyes?

  Quentin Coldwater : I guess I just assumed he couldn't.

  Doctor Meers : Treating something like that requires an enormous amount of energy, and that comes at a cost.

  Quentin Coldwater : So does everything.

• William 'Penny' Adiyodi : [Last lines]  All I can say is it was some kind of dungeon.

  Kady Orloff-Diaz : This was on the walls.

  [Shows sketch] 

  Quentin Coldwater : That's... that's Ember's seal. Uh Penny, I think you were in Fillory.