The Magicians (TV Series)

The World in the Walls (2016)

Jason Ralph: Quentin Coldwater

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Quotes 

• Quentin Coldwater : Every time I talk, I sound batshit.

• Dean Fogg : Quentin, do you really think that the magic that we teach means that you just get to fly above right and wrong? Magic does not solve problems-...

  Quentin Coldwater : It magnifies them. I know that too. Believe me. I don't need to be taught what magic is or isn't. I need to be taught magic because I need to decide what magic *is*... for me.

• Quentin Coldwater : One thing is real. You are always a raging dick.

• Quentin Coldwater : Could I get some tape anyplace?

  Healer Faye : Tape isn't permitted.

  Quentin Coldwater : "Tape isn't permitted". Right, I know. But why, again?

  Healer Faye : 'Cause you can harm yourself or others.

  Quentin Coldwater : It's *tape*.

• Jane Chatwin : You sure you want to play?

  Quentin Coldwater : No. I'm not sure of anything. Except I'm tired, so tired.

  Jane Chatwin : Of?

  Quentin Coldwater : Fighting all the time, becoming someone that I actually want to be, and then realizing that I... am nothing.

  Jane Chatwin : So you made the hospital, conjured that terrible thing you never did to your father. Of course you're exhausted. And you can hide from it all forever in this lovely, quiet, blank void. But you also built a way out. Otherwise, why are he and I here?

  Quentin Coldwater : [Pages appear in Quentin's hands. He reads]  "The Madness Maker didn't play for the joy of winning, just the fear of losing. The real curse was, he only played when he could win, which cut him off from the surprise, horror, sadness, and wonder of life. Jane saw only one way out for him: stop playing. Start living."

• Quentin Coldwater : [Reading]  In all of Fillory, one magician could drive every other magician insane. An inventor of puzzles with no solution and games where the rules changed for no reason. He was called The Madness Maker, but he had been born Ellis Wirth-Downs. On his first journey to Fillory, he played checkers with a powerful witch. He cheated, and her curse was simple: the only kind of magic he would ever do again was game magic. Jane Chatwin knew his need to make others suffer was only because he felt so alone in his cursed state, because the more Ellis played, the more insane he became...

• Jane Chatwin : Well, I can finally reach you again, but that's never been the problem, has it; my reaching you?

  Quentin Coldwater : Will you please, just for once - no more riddles, okay? Just tell me what to do.

  Jane Chatwin : It doesn't matter what anyone tells you. You make the web you're in. You're the spider and the fly,