- Quentin Coldwater: You said you read it. Do you - do you remember it?
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Ish.
- Quentin Coldwater: This is important. Okay, I need you-...
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: I need to punch you in the throat if you tell me what I need to do.
- Quentin Coldwater: The Beast is trying to pick us both off. You've got the scars to prove it. I don't understand why we can't just be basic allies. You can't possibly want to be a dick more than you want to live!
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: [Ominous children's laughter] What the hell was that?
- Quentin Coldwater: This house is haunted as balls, is what that is.
- Kira: Forget that school. The world never did help a smart girl. Why would it? We scare the shit out of the world. If the world goes after you, take it as a compliment.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Let's see this button.
- Eliot Waugh: [Quentin takes it out] It looks so ordinary.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: No, I feel something coming off of it hard.
- [Opens the case]
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: You guys really don't feel that?
- Quentin Coldwater: Maybe you should put it away.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Hey, don't talk to me like I'm you. Mayakovsky trained me himself. I stay put until I want to go, period.
- [Picks up the button and disappears]
- Quentin Coldwater: ...Told him not to do that.
- Quentin Coldwater: What really happened to Plover?
- Hugh: I don't know what you're talking about.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Yes, you do. Ugh, he's so panicked, I can't make sense of anything he's thinking.
- Eliot Waugh: Okay. Enough of this.
- [Makes electricity with his hands]
- Eliot Waugh: I'm a super villain. Now talk.
- Quentin Coldwater: Fillory is always deciding when to let the Chatwins go and deciding when to kick them out, because Ember and Umber-...
- Alice Quinn: Right, the twin gods of Fillory. They get mean and take everything away, I know.
- Quentin Coldwater: Essentially, yeah. They have their reasons. But that's what happened to the manuscript. For some reason, I didn't deserve it.
- Alice Quinn: It's a manuscript, not a referendum on your character.
- Quentin Coldwater: Book Six. The day we met, you said you had nothing to do with it.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Like I said, it wasn't me.
- [Quentin points the searching fire in front of him]
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Want to get that thing out of my face? Ugh, fine. I took the stupid thing. I was bored. It was there. Now it's gone.
- Quentin Coldwater: Gone? What do you mean, it's gone?
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: I mean I read it. I spilled my beer on it. I tossed it in the trash, and then I went and got another beer.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Martin was crying like a little bitch about Fillory not wanting him anymore, and Jane said hang tight and she'll find some way that Martin can go back to Fillory anytime he wanted. Yeah, and there were, like, creatures or something.
- Quentin Coldwater: Questing Creatures; if you catch one, they're forced to grant you a wish. There's seven of them. There's a dog, a rabbit...
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Stop! I'm literally becoming less cool with every word you speak.
- Hugh: [Leading a tour through the Plover estate] Prudence said Christopher so understood children because of his own tragic childhood. He aided many families in the area and paid for the education of his housekeeper's children, George and Beatrix. Not only did he write for the Chatwins, but he took them in briefly when their mother died. Legend has it Jane walked through a closet in this very house to get to Fillory. Follow me to the writing room.
- [Leads them into an office]
- Hugh: This is where Fillory was born, where Plover told tales to Jane and Martin. As Plover wrote:
- Quentin Coldwater, Hugh: "There is no substitute for a childhood of adventure, warmth, and love".
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: [to Quentin] You will never be a man.
- Kira: You know, I didn't go to school either.
- Julia Wicker: [scoffs] Come on.
- Kira: Well, I went to MIT, but I didn't study a lick of magic in school.
- Julia Wicker: [Looks at her notes] This is brilliant.
- Kira: Magic is science. Hard to crack on your own, but far from impossible, if you have the natural bent.
- Julia Wicker: [Letter, via voiceover] Dear Q. I don't need to tell you how pissed at you I am. Probably got the message around the time I incepted the shit out of you. I don't understand why we fell apart after being friends forever. Anyway, I'm sorry for my part. I never meant to really hurt you. I put it down. I got help. I know you're not supposed to say the other person fucked up too, but you fucked up too, and it broke us, and I hate you for that, because I really miss us, Q. I'm working on forgiving you. Jules.
- Alice Quinn: [about Plover] What happened to him?
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: I got a theory.
- [Points to titles on the bookshelf]
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: McCabe, Livingston, Ali, Popper.
- Quentin Coldwater: Oh, my God.
- Alice Quinn: He was studying magic.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Yeah. I guess that never made it to the message boards. But check this out.
- [Points to a different set of books]
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Kaminsky, Umar, Aurora.
- Eliot Waugh: I've never even heard of those.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Of course, you haven't. You're not a traveler. It's the entire 101.
- Alice Quinn: Plover was a traveler?
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Or he wanted to be. I mean, you go one inch wrong, you're torn to shreds.
- Quentin Coldwater: This is amazing. What if-...
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Try this. Plover's an idiot, like you, who wanted to go to Fillory, like you, so he tries a spell and gets blown up.
- Quentin Coldwater: Is it just me, or does it feel like we're being shown something, like how it was?
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Yeah, the time slip.
- Quentin Coldwater: You say that like, "Yeah, a sunrise".
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Sunderland talks about it all the time. She has a PhD in hauntings. Her favorite thing about a haunted house is, you get these ghost movies of the past running on a loop. You see shit like it was.
- Quentin Coldwater: I didn't know any of that.
- William 'Penny' Adiyodi: Of course not. You're an idiot.
- Alice Quinn: Oh my god. Do you know what this is?
- Eliot Waugh: A vaguely whimsical horror show?
- Alice Quinn: She did this. She really did this to the children - Plover's sister. She tied them up and drugged them so that they wouldn't disturb his work.
- Julia Wicker: I did not sign up for this.
- Richard: Then what? Pleasantries?
- Julia Wicker: No, how about not killing anyone?
- Richard: What do you think redemption looks like, Julia? Being nice? Donating shoes to Africa? You think that really burns the tumors off your soul?
- Julia Wicker: What if she's wrong? You know, what if a Magician finds a cure tomorrow? What if there really is a hell and this takes me there?
- Richard: You're already in hell. So is she.
- Julia Wicker: What am I supposed to do?
- Richard: Whichever's hardest.