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• TV series and shows •

"If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then brother, that person is a piece of shit"

True Detective - season 1

Black Mirror

"All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?"

Big Little Lies

“Problems always start long before you really, really see them.”

Sharp Objects

"How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?"

Mindhunter

"When a man interacts with the world, he leaves traces everywhere"

Manhunt : Unabomber

"Laughter or not, justice came, as it always does"

And Then There Were None

"History was not made by those who did nothing"

The Crown

"Friends don't lie"

Stranger Things

"Nobody's ready to feel better, they're ready to fucking explode"

The Leftovers

"You should never tell a psychopath they're a psychopath. It upsets them"

Killing Eve

"I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist"

Fleabag

"What is your thing, then?"
"Complex female characters."

Sex Education

“Ghosts are guilt, ghosts are secrets, ghosts are regrets and failings.
But most times most times a ghost is a wish.”

The Haunting of Hill House

"Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected"

Dark

“I may be on the side of the angels but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.”

Sherlock

"People are mad, and they don't always have it tattooed across their forehead"

Happy Valley

"When you play a game of thrones you win or you die."

Game of Thrones

"Everyone’s grief manifests in different ways."

Dead To Me

"He got away with beating her, but he is not going to get away with killing her!"

American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson

“Thank you for changing my life. Lives are hard to change.”

Russian Doll

"When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."

Chernobyl

"They say "Boys will be boys". When they say "boys" they're not talking about us. They talking about other boys, from another places. When did we ever get the chance to be boys?"

When They See Us

"What sort of world are we in? 'Cos if this is bad now, what's it going to be like for you, huh?"

Years and Years

"Isn't that the goal of every marriage, making it through?"

State of the Union

"Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word. Musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself. Murderess. Murderess. It rustles like a taffeta skirt across the floor."

Alias Grace

"When our lives are knocked off course we imagine everything in them is lost. It is only the start of something new and good. As long as there is life there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal still to come."

War & Peace

"I used to assume grief was something inside you could fight and vanquish but it's not. It's an external thing. Like a shadow. You can't escape it. You just have to live with it. And it doesn't grow any smaller. You just come to accept that it's there."

Broadchurch

“You don’t have a side anymore. Neither of us do. We’re on our own side.”

Good Omens

“This is the feeling I have been searching for my entire life, for as long as I could remember. Because suddenly, the world went quiet. And I felt safe, in my own head.”

Euphoria

"I can promise you that I am spiritually and emotionally and ethically and morally behind whoever wins."

Succession

"Being a Derry girl, well it's a fuckin' state of mind."

Derry Girls

"Doesn’t matter what he has, it matters what he thinks he has."

The Night Manager

"You wanna know what I'm good at? I'm good at killing people."

Barry

“Even with people that you can kinda trust....If the truth is inconvenient, and if the truth doesn’t, like, fit, they don’t believe it.”

Unbelievable
#unbelieveablenetflix

"The love we had in our past, unfinished, untested, lost love, seems so easy, so childish to those of us who choose to settle down. But, actually, it's the purest, most concentrated stuff.”

Modern Love

"...if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

Looking For Alaska

"It’s a simple question really. Why would a woman kill? And who would she murder? The man who did her wrong? The other woman? Perhaps a friend guilty of betrayal?"

Why Women Kill

“So, you are on your knees? Good. Now die to yourself... to your idea of yourself. Everything you think you are, you are not. What's left? Find out.”

Top of the Lake

"Sometimes women can't ask for control, so they have to take it."

The Morning Show

“There's a hole in the side of the boat. That hole is never going to be fixed and it's never going away and you can't get a new boat, this is your boat. What you have to do is bail water out faster than it's coming in.”

The Newsroom

"One minute we talk of the colour of fruit, the next of love. How does that happen?"

North & South

"Making a playlist is a delicate art. It's like writing a love letter, but better in a way. You get to say what you want to say without actually saying it."

High Fidelity