The Magicians (TV Series)

Unauthorized Magic (2015)

Jason Ralph: Quentin Coldwater

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• Dean Fogg : My apologies for the rocky road. We certainly didn't intend for Bob to die on you.

  Quentin Coldwater : The alumni guy?

  Dean Fogg : Mm-hmm.

  Quentin Coldwater : He works for you?

  Dean Fogg : Mm-hmm.

  Quentin Coldwater : Was he murdered?

  Dean Fogg : Snuck a box of Oreos.

  Quentin Coldwater : Magicians can't eat Oreos?

  Dean Fogg : Diabetics can't eat Oreos.

• Quentin Coldwater : I don't want to get kicked out. And I really don't want to be the guy who dies in the first ten minutes of the movie because he's like, "You know what? "Let's take out the Ouija board. What could possibly go wrong?

• Quentin Coldwater : Am I hallucinating?

  Eliot Waugh : If you were, how would asking me help?

• William 'Penny' Adiyodi : [Reading Quentin's mind]  Yes, I can. Yes, I have. Yes, everything you think is so boring, I replace it with dubstep.

  Quentin Coldwater : ...What's dubstep?

• Eliot Waugh : That is what's left of the third-year class. Were 20, now 4. No one knows why.

  Quentin Coldwater : They're just gone?

  Margo Hanson : Mm, rumor has it, killed.

  Eliot Waugh : Or flunked or got bored or died 16 perfectly natural deaths. Whatever. We all signed this waiver. I hope you read yours. It says, "Spellwork is not unlikely to murder you, and, if so, oh, well".

• Quentin Coldwater : So "be a magician"? Is that illegal or are you guys trying to take over the world or...?

  Dean Fogg : This school exists for a single and timeless purpose - to reveal your innate abilities and hone them to the highest degree. Now, what you do with it after that is entirely up to you. If you want to take over the world, we don't teach that, but give it a go.

• James : Oh, my God. My girl. My friend. Have you no decency?

  Quentin Coldwater : Not even a little.

  James : Excellent. Three-way!

  [He screams leaping on the bed between them] 

• Quentin Coldwater : [Reading]  From a young age, Martin Chatwin had a gloomy nature. And to combat his melancholy, he would lose himself in stories of wonder. So he knew that he would have trouble convincing his brother and sister that this was no fantasy. Rupert, wounded in the war and the first Chatwin to put away childish things And Jane, the family skeptic. This was Fillory. A land of magic. Martin thought they needed Fillory but, no, Fillory needed them.

• Quentin Coldwater : Life is raw. Everybody medicates.