Rick Grimes: What's the difference between men and women?
Shane Walsh: Is this a joke?
Rick Grimes: No, serious.
Shane Walsh: Never met a woman who knew how to turn off a light. Born thinking the switch only goes one way: on. Come home, house all lit up, and my job, you see, apparently because my chromosomes happen to be different is that I gotta walk through that house and turn off every single light this chick left on.
Rick Grimes: Is that right?
Shane Walsh: Yeah, baby. Oh Reverend Shane is a-preachin' to ya now, boy. Then this same chick, mind ya, she'll bitch about, uh, Global Warming. This is where Reverend Shane wants to quote from the Guy Gospel and say, "Uh, darlin' maybe if you and every other pair of boobs on this planet could just figure out that the light switch, see, goes both ways, maybe we wouldn't have so much Global Warming?"
Rick Grimes: You say that?
Shane Walsh: The polite version. Still, that earns me this look of loathing you would not believe and that's when the Exorcist voice pops out "You sound just like my damn Father! Always yellin' about the power bill and tellin' me to turn off the damn lights!"
Rick Grimes: What do you say to that?
Shane Walsh: I know what I want to say. What I want to say, "Bitch, you mean to tell me you've been hearing this your entire life and you are still too damn stupid to learn how to turn off a switch?"

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Morgan Jones: Bites kill you. The fever burns you out. But then after a while...you come back.

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Glenn Rhee: [over the radio to Rick] Hey, you. Dumbass. Hey, you in the tank. Cozy in there?

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Rick Grimes: [to Shane] That vase - that's something special. 'Fess up. You steal that from your Grandma Jean's house? I hope you left her that spoon collection.

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Rick Grimes: You shot that man today.
Morgan Jones: Man?
Duane Jones: It weren't no man.
Morgan Jones: What the hell was that out your mouth just now?
Duane Jones: It wasn't a man.
Rick Grimes: You shot him in the street out front, a man.
Morgan Jones: Friend, you need glasses. It was a walker. Come on, sit down... before you fall down.

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Duane Jones: Daddy, can I learn to shoot? I'm old enough.
Morgan Jones: Hell yes, you're gonna learn. But we gotta do it carefully, teach you to respect the weapon.
Rick Grimes: That's right. It's not a toy. You pull the trigger, you have to mean it. Always remember that, Duane.
Duane Jones: Yes, sir.

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Morgan Jones: They might not seem like much one at a time, but when they're in a group all riled up and hungry, man you watch your ass.

  --  Days Gone Bye [1.01]
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Glenn Rhee: [to Rick] Nice moves there, Clint Eastwood. You the new sheriff come riding in to clean up the town?

  --  Guts [1.02]
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Merle Dixon: Hey! Y'all be more polite to a man with a gun! Huh? Ah! Only common sense.

  --  Guts [1.02]
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Merle Dixon: Who the hell are you, man?!
Rick Grimes: Officer Friendly. Look here, Merle. Things are different now. There are no niggers anymore. No dumb-as-shit, inbred white-trash fools either. Only dark meat and white meat. There's us and the dead. We survive this by pulling together, not apart.
Merle Dixon: Screw you, man.
Rick Grimes: I can see you make a habit of missing the point.
Merle Dixon: Yeah? Well, screw you twice.
Rick Grimes: Ought to be polite to a man with a gun. [cocks gun] Only common sense.
Merle Dixon: You wouldn't. You're a cop.
Rick Grimes: All I am anymore is a man looking for his wife and son. Anybody that gets in the way of that is gonna lose. I'll give you a moment to think about that.

  --  Guts [1.02]
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T-Dog: [into walkie-talkie] Anybody out there? Hello? Anybody read? I'm hoping to hear somebody's voice 'cause I'm sick and tired of hearing mine.
Merle Dixon: Yeah, well, that makes two of us. Why don't you knock that crap off? You're giving me a headache, boy.
T-Dog: Why don't you pull your head out of your ass? Maybe your headache will go away. Try some positivity for a change. Damn.

  --  Guts [1.02]
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Morales: Hey T-Dog, how's that signal?
T-Dog: Like Dixon's brain: weak.

  --  Guts [1.02]
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Glenn: [while being smeared with zombie guts] Oh, this is bad. This is really bad.
Rick Grimes: Think about something else. Puppies and kittens.
T-Dog: *Dead* puppies and kittens.
[Glenn vomits]

  --  Guts [1.02]
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Merle Dixon: [delirious] That's right. You heard me, bitch. You got a problem? Bring it on if you're man enough, or take it up the chain if you're a pussy. You heard me, you pussy-ass noncom bitch. You ain't deaf. Take it up the damn chain of command or you can kiss my lily-white ass. [laughs] That's right. That's what I said. You heard me. And then this idiot, he takes a swing, you know, and well... [laughs] Oh, you should've seen the look on his face when I punched out his front teeth. Yeah, five of 'em. Pow! Pow! Just like that. Huh. Oh my God. Oh, 16 months... in the stockade, that's what them teeth cost me. That was, that was hard time, but by God, it was worth every minute of it just to see that prick spit his teeth out on the ground. Yes sir, worth every minute. Mmm.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Merle Dixon: [praying] I didn't behave, I know. I know I'm being punished. I know. I- Oh, I deserve it. I deserve it. I've been bad. Help me now. Show me the way. Go on, tell me what to do. Tell me. Tell me. God!That's okay. Never you mind, silly Christ boy. I ain't begged you before. I ain't gonna start begging now. I ain't gonna beg you now! Don't you worry about me begging you ever! I'll never beg you! I ain't gonna beg you! I never begged you before.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Dale Horvath: Words can be meager things. Sometimes they fall short.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Shane Walsh: [Rick is leaving the camp to save Merle] Well look, I-Idon't, okay Rick, so could you just-could you throw me a bone here, man? Could you just tell me why: why would you risk your life for a douchebag like Merle Dixon?
Daryl Dixon: Hey, choose your words more carefully.
Shane Walsh: Oh no, I did. Douchebag's what I meant.
[bitterly]
Shane Walsh: Merle Dixon: guy wouldn't give you a glass of water if you were dyin' of thirst.
Rick Grimes: What he would or wouldn't do doesn't interest me: *I* can't let a man die of thirst, me: thirst, and exposure. We left him like an animal caught in a trap, that's no way for anything to die, let alone a human being.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Dale Horvath: [looking through binoculars at the campsite at the source of a loud car alarm] I'll be damned.
Amy: What is it?
Dale Horvath: Stolen car is my guess.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Shane Walsh: [about eating frog legs] When you get down to that last can of beans, you're gonna be loving those frog legs, lady. I can see it now...
[imitating Lori]
Shane Walsh: "Shane, do you think I could have a second helping, please? Please? Just one?"
Lori Grimes: Yeah, I doubt that.
Shane Walsh: [to Carl] Don't listen to her, man. You and me, we'll be heroes. We'll feed these folks Cajun-style Kermit legs.
Lori Grimes: I would rather eat Miss piggy. Yes, that came out wrong.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Daryl Dixon: [angry at a Walker that has begun to eat the deer he hunted] Son of a bitch. That's my deer! Look at it. All gnawed on by this... filthy, disease-bearing, motherless poxy bastard!

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Shane Walsh: So now you're gonna risk three men?
T-Dog: Four.
Daryl Dixon: My day just gets better and better.
T-Dog: You see anybody else here stepping up, to save your brother's cracker ass?
Daryl Dixon: Why you?
T-Dog: You wouldn't even begin to understand. You don't speak my language.

  --  Tell It to the Frogs [1.03]
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Daryl Dixon: Nobody can kill Merle but Merle.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Shane Walsh: Jim, nobody is gonna hurt you, okay?
Jim: That's a lie. That's the biggest lie there is. I told that to my wife and my two boys. I said it 100 times. It didn't matter. They came out of nowhere. There were dozens of 'em. Just pulled 'em right out of my hands. You know, the only reason I got away was 'cause the dead were too busy eating my family.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Daryl Dixon: Hey kid, what'd you do before all this?
Glenn Rhee: Deliver pizzas. Why?
Daryl Dixon: You got some balls for a China man.
Glenn Rhee: I'm Korean.
Daryl Dixon: Whatever.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Jim: I remember my dream now, why I dug the holes.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Daryl Dixon: [about Merle] Toughest asshole I ever met, my brother. Feed him a hammer, he'd crap out nails.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Miguel: Merle? What kind of hick name is that? I wouldn't name my dog Merle.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Glenn: Admit it, you only came back to Atlanta for the hat.
Rick Grimes: Don't tell anybody.
Daryl Dixon: You've given away half our guns and ammo.
Glenn: Not nearly half.
Daryl Dixon: For what? A bunch of old farts who are gonna die off momentarily anyhow? Seriously, how long do you think they got?
Glenn: How long do any of us?

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Guillermo: What's to stop my people from unloading on you right now, and I take what's mine?
Rick Grimes: We could do that... or
[looks to T-Dog with sniper rifle]
Guillermo: Ojey! The way I see it is we got two options.
Guillermo: Either come back with Miguel and my bag of guns, or come back locked and loaded, and we'll see which side spills more blood.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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Andrea: Wrapping paper, colored tissue, anything?
Dale Horvath: You serious?
Andrea: How can you not have any?
Dale Horvath: Had I been informed of the coming apocalypse I'd have stocked up.

  --  Vatos [1.04]
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[Dr. Jenner is speaking to a recording camera.]
Edwin Jenner: Jenner here. It's Day 394 since Wildfire was declared and 63 days since the disease abruptly went global. There's no clinical progress to report. Item: I finally got the scrubbers in the east sector shut down to save power. Wish I could have done it a month ago, but it took me how long to figure it out. Too bad I never studied engineering. Could have saved a lot of amps. Item: Still not sleeping well. Can't seem to keep regular hours. Living underground doesn't help; not knowing if it's day or night. Just...feeling very...off.

  --  Wildfire [1.05]
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[Dr. Jenner is speaking to a recording camera after the decontamination process destroyed his samples.]
Edwin Jenner: The TS-19 samples are gone. The tragedy of their loss cannot be overstated. They were our freshest samples, by far. None of the other samples we gathered came close. Those are necrotic. Useless, dead flesh. [Pause] I don't even know why I'm talking to you. I bet there isn't a single son of a bitch still listening out there, is there? [Gets closer to the camera] Is there? Fine. Saves me the embarrassment. I think tomorrow I'm gonna blow my brains out. I haven't decided. But tonight, I'm getting drunk. [Pours a glass of wine, finishing the bottle. Shows the camera the bottle.] Speaking of which, how far do you think I can chuck this, huh? Pretty far, I bet. [Throws bottle across room, shattering it.] Oh! It is out of the stadium!

  --  Wildfire [1.05]
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Daryl: The line is pretty clear: zero tolerance for Walkers.

  --  Wildfire [1.05]
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Rick: Do not enter the city. It belongs to the dead now.

  --  Wildfire [1.05]
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Rick Grimes: [to Jenner] You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do but you don't. It's only a matter of time. There's too many of those things. My boy, my wife, I never told them what I really thought. I never even hinted, just, just kept it in, kept us moving, kept it in, kept us moving.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Dale Horvath: I see a chance to make a new start.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Daryl Dixon: Man, I'm gonna get shit-faced drunk. again.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Edwin Jenner: This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Rick Grimes: [to Jenner, on being given the chance to survive] I'm grateful.
Edwin Jenner: The day will come when you won't be.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Rick Grimes: H.I.T.s?
Dr. Edwin Jenner: [to computer] Vi, define.
Vi: H.I.T.s - high-impulse thermobaric fuel-air explosive consists of a two-stage aerosol ignition which produces a blast wave of significantly greater power and duration than any other known explosive except nuclear. The vacuum-pressure effect ignites the oxygen between 5,000 and 6,000 degrees and is used when the greatest loss of life and damage to structures is desired.
Dr. Edwin Jenner: It sets the air on fire. No pain. An end to sorrow, grief, regret. Everything.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Carol Peletier: Rick, I have something that might help.
Shane Walsh: Carol, I don't think a nail file's gonna do it.
Carol Peletier: [brings out a grenade] Your first morning at camp, when I washed your uniform, I found this in your pocket.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Andrea: Don't pull this, Dale.
Dale Horvath: I'm not pulling anything. If you're staying, I stay too. He's right, we know what's waiting for us out there. I don't want to face it alone.
Andrea: Dale, get the hell out. I don't want you here.
Dale Horvath: Too bad. See, you don't get to do that, to come into somebody's life, make them care and just check out. I'm staying. The matter is settled.

  --  TS-19 [1.06]
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Andrea: [to Dale] All I wanted after my sister died was to get out of this endless horrific nightmare we live every day. I wasn't hurting anyone else. You took my choice away, Dale. And you expect gratitude? I don't know what to say. I'm not your little girl. I'm not your wife. And I am sure as hell not your problem.

  --  What Lies Ahead [2.01]
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Carol Peletier: [praying] Father, forgive me. I don't deserve your mercy. I prayed for safe passage from Atlanta and you provided. I prayed for Ed to be punished for laying his hands on me and for looking at his own daughter with whatever sickness was growing in his soul. I prayed you'd put a stop to it, give me a chance to raise her right, help her not make my mistakes. She's so fearful. She's so young in her way. She hasn't had a chance. Praying for Ed's death was a sin. Please, don't let this be my punishment. Let her be safe, alive and safe. Please, lord. Punish me however you want, but show mercy on her.

  --  What Lies Ahead [2.01]
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Dale Horvath: Listen, your veins are very discolored. You got a hell of an infection there. You could die from blood poisoning.
T-Dog: [laughs] Oh, man. Wouldn't that be the way? World gone to hell, the dead risen up to eat the living and Theodore Douglas is done here by a cut on his arm. [laughs harder]

  --  Bloodletting[2.02]
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Otis: I ain't gonna sit here while this fella takes this on alone.

  --  Bloodletting[2.02]
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T-Dog: What are you, 70?
Dale Horvath: 64.
T-Dog: Uh-huh. And I'm the one black guy. Realize how precarious that makes my situation?

  --  Bloodletting[2.02]
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Lori Grimes: Maybe this isn't a world for children anymore.

  --  Save the Last One [2.03]
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[Daryl finds a walker hanging by a rope and reads off a note on the tree]
Daryl Dixon: "Got bit. Fever hit. World gone to shit. Might as well quit". Dumbass didn't know enough to shoot himself in the head. Turns himself in a swinging piece of bait. And a mess.

  --  Save the Last One [2.03]
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Daryl Dixon: Look at him. Hanging up there like a big pinata. The other geeks came and ate all the flesh off his legs.
Andrea: I thought we were changing the subject.
Daryl Dixon: Call that payback for laughing about my itchy ass.

  --  Save the Last One [2.03]
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Rick Grimes: Last time I asked God for a favor and stopped to admire a view, my son got shot. I try not to mix it up with the almighty anymore.

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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Hershel Greene: [to Rick] My father didn't bother with comforting lies. He used his fist. He was a loveless, violent drunk and no good to anybody. He drove me from home when I was 15. Didn't lay eyes on this place again for many years. I was not at his deathbed, Rick. I would not grant him that and to this day do not regret it. Some men do not earn the love of their sons. I don't see you having that problem.

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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Daryl Dixon: [to Carol] It's a Cherokee Rose. The story is that when American soldiers were moving Indians off their land on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much 'cause they were losing their little ones along the way from exposure and disease and starvation. A lot of them just disappeared. So the elders, they said a prayer; asked for a sign to uplift the mothers' spirits, give them strength and hope. The next day this rose started to grow where the mothers' tears fell. I'm not fool enough to think there's any flowers blooming for my brother. But I believe this one bloomed for your little girl.

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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Maggie Greene: [to Glenn] I`ll have sex with you.

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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Hershel Greene: That's something, isn't it? It's good to pause for an occasional reminder.
Rick Grimes: Of what?
Hershel Greene: Whatever comes to mind. For me it's often God. No thoughts on that?
Rick Grimes: Last time I asked God for a favor and stopped to admire a view, my son got shot. I try not to mix it up with the Almighty anymore. Best we stay out of each others way.
Hershel Greene: Lori told me your story - how you were shot, the coma. Yet you came out of it somehow. You did not feel God's hand in yours?
Rick Grimes: At that moment? No, I did not.
Hershel Greene: In all the chaos you found your wife and boy. Then he was shot and he survived. That tells you nothing?
Rick Grimes: It tells me God's got a strange sense of humor.

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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T-Dog: [after bashing in a Walker's head] Good thing we didn't do anything stupid like shoot it.

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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Carl Grimes: Hey, I'm like you now. We've both been shot. Isn't that weird?
Rick Grimes: Yeah, I think your mother would rather hear we got the same eyes. So let's keep that between us. Since in you're in the club now, you get to wear the hat. Didn't you know?

  --  Cherokee Rose [2.04]
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Jimmy: I want a gun.
Daryl Dixon: And people in hell want Slurpees.

  --  Chupacabra [2.05]
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Merle Dixon Hallucination: [to Daryl] You're a joke is what you are, playing errand boy to a bunch of pansy-asses, niggers and democrats. You're nothing but a freak to them. Redneck trash. That's all you are. They're laughing at you behind your back. You know that, don't you? I got a little news for you, son. One day they gonna scrape you off their heels like you was dogshit. Hey. They ain't your kin, your blood. Hell, you had any damn nuts in that sack of yours, you'd got back there and shoot your pal Rick in the face for me. Now you listen to me. Ain't nobody ever gonna care about you except me, little brother. Nobody ever will. Come on. Get up on your feet, before I'm gonna have to kick your teeth in. Let's go.

  --  Chupacabra [2.05]
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Glenn Rhee: Dale, you think Andrea's on her period? I'm only asking 'cause it's like all the women are acting really weird. And I read somewhere that when women spend a lot of time together, their cycles line up and they all get super crazy hormonal at the same time.
Dale Horvath: I'm gonna advise you to keep that theory to yourself.

  --  Chupacabra [2.05]
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Dale Horvath: If I had known the world was ending, I'd have brought better books.

  --  Chupacabra [2.05]
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Daryl Dixon: I'm going to borrow a horse and head up to this ridge right here. Get a bird's eye view of the whole grid. If she's up there I'll spot her.
T-Dog: Good idea. Maybe you'll see your chupacabra up there, too.
Rick Grimes: Chupacabra?
Dale Horvath: You never heard that story? First night in camp, Daryl tell us the whole thing reminds him of the time he went squirrel hunting and he saw a chupacabra.
Jimmy: [laughs]
Daryl Dixon: What are you braying at, jackass?
Jimmy: So, you believe in a bloodsucking dog?
Daryl Dixon: You believe in dead people walking around?

  --  Chupacabra [2.05]
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Daryl Dixon: [to Andrea] Shoot me again? You best pray I'm dead.

  --  Secrets [2.06]
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Dale Horvath: [referring to Otis] You've been vague about that night about what happened.
Shane Walsh: Otis died a hero.
Dale Horvath: So you've said.
Shane Walsh: A little boy lived because of what went down that night. I think you oughta show some gratitude.
Dale Horvath: I wasn't there.
Shane Walsh: No man, you weren't.
Dale Horvath: But I was the time you raised your gun on Rick. You had him in your sights... and you held him there. I know what kind of man you are.
Shane Walsh: You think I'd shoot Rick? That is my best friend. That's the man that I love, I love him like he's my brother. You think that's the kind of man I am?
Dale Horvath: That's right.
Shane Walsh: [menacingly] Well maybe we oughta just think that through. See, if I'm the kind of man that would gun down his own best friend, what'd you think I do to some guy I don't even like when he starts throwing accusations my way. What'd you think?

  --  Secrets [2.06]
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Shane Walsh: Hell, when you really look at it in the cold light of day, you're pretty much dead already.

  --  Pretty Much Dead Already [2.07]
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Shane Walsh: These things ain't sick! They're not people! THEY'RE DEAD!! All they do, THEY KILL!! These things right here! they're the things that killed Amy! They killed Otis!! They're gonna kill all of us.
Rick Grimes: Shane, STOP!!
Shane Walsh: Hey, Hershel. Man, let me ask you something. could a living, breathing person, could they walk away from this?
[Shoots a walker 3 times]
Rick Grimes: STOP IT!!
Shane Walsh: That's 3 rounds in the chest. Someone who's a alive, could they just take that?!! Why is it still coming?!!
[Shoots a walker twice]
Shane Walsh: That's its heart, its lungs!! Why is it still coming?!!
[Shoots a walker 3 times]
Rick Grimes: Shane, enough!!
Shane Walsh: Yeah, you're right, man. That is enough.
[Walks toward the walker and shoots it in the head]
Shane Walsh: Enough risking our lives for a little girl who's GONE!!! Enough living next to a barn full of things that are trying to kill us!! Enough! Rick, it ain't like it was before!! Now, if y'all wanna live, if y'all wanna survive, you gotta fight for it!! I'm talking about fighting, right here!! Right now!!

  --  Pretty Much Dead Already [2.07]
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Hershel Greene: [to Rick] You people are like a plague! I do the Christian thing, give you shelter, and you destroy it all!

  --  Nebraska [2.08]
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Dave: [to Rick] You don't know what we've had to go through out there, the things we've had to do. I bet you've had to do some of those same things yourself. Am I right? 'Cause ain't nobody's hands clean in what's left of this world.

  --  Nebraska [2.08]
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Rick Grimes: You thought there was a cure. You can't blame yourself for holding out for hope.
Hershel Greene: Hope? When I first saw you running across my field with your boy in your arms, I had a little hope he would survive.
Rick Grimes: But he did.
Hershel Greene: He did. Even though we lost Otis. Your man Shane made it back and we saved your boy. That was the miracle that proved to me miracles do exist. Only it was a sham, a bait and switch. I was a fool, Rick, and you people saw that. My daughters deserve better than that.

  --  Nebraska [2.08]
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Dave: Walkers? That what you call them?
Glenn: Yeah.
Dave: That's good. I like that. I like that better than lamebrains.
Tony: More succinct.
Dave: Okay, Tony went to college.
Tony: Two years.

  --  Nebraska [2.08]
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Lori Grimes: We're ready.
[for Sophia's funeral]
Carol Peletier: Why?
Daryl Dixon: 'Cause that's your little girl.
Carol Peletier: That's not my little girl. It's some other... thing. My Sophia was lost in the woods. All this time, I thought. But she didn't go hungry. She didn't cry herself to sleep. She didn't try to find her way back. Sophia died a long time ago.

  --  Nebraska [2.08]
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Hershel Greene: You want me to cover Glenn?
Rick Grimes': You missed all that gun training. It could've come in handy now.
Hershel Greene: Nah, I can shoot. Just don't like to.

  --  Triggerfinger [2.09]
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Maggie Greene: What's going on with you?
Glenn Rhee: Your dad saved my life today. And Rick saved us both. And I - I froze.
Maggie Greene: Well, you were being shot at.
Glenn Rhee: No, that...
Maggie Greene: You don't have anything to prove.
Glenn Rhee: All I've done - and then this. Okay? It's because of what you said.
Maggie Greene: That I love you?
Glenn Rhee: Yeah. A bullet hit the wall behind me and I - I thought of you - losing me, hurting. And I couldn't take it, so I hid to stay alive.
Maggie Greene: [Reaching out to embrace him] Glenn...
Glenn Rhee: [Backs away from her] No, no, no. No, you don't get it. Rick, your dad - they were counting on me and I - I only thought of myself.

  --  Triggerfinger [2.09]
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Shane Walsh: He knows where the farm is, Rick. Where we are-- he knows. Say he finds his way back to his people... (pulls out his glock)
Rick Grimes: Shane, no! [pushes him] Not now. Just not now!
Shane Walsh: Well, when, Rick? When?
Rick Grimes: When I've had a chance to think about it.
Randall: Don't let him kill me. Please don't.
Rick: Shut up! We're going back. It's a man's life. I need a night to think it through.
Shane Walsh: You're gonna bring this piece of garbage... this piece of garbage who - he shot at you, Rick. He ran with men who tried to kill you. You gonna bring him back to where Lori sleeps? To where Carl sleeps?
Rick Grimes: He'll be locked up in the barn, unless you bust it open.
Shane Walsh: Oh, don't start that shit.
Rick Grimes: I'm taking the night.
Shane Walsh: Man, you take that... you think on it, Rick. Keep struggling with it. It ain't hard, man. The right choice is the one that keeps us alive. It's always the same with you. It's like the first moment - it's whenever you're put to the test.
Rick Grimes: Stop acting like you know the way ahead, like you know the rules. There are no rules, man. We're lost.
Shane Walsh: No-no-no, man. I know exactly where I am.
Rick Grimes: You don't know shit anymore.
Shane Walsh: I don't think you can do it, Rick.
Rick Grimes: It's my call, man.
Shane Walsh: I don't think you can keep them safe.

  --  18 Miles Out [2.10]
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Shane Walsh: Rick, you can't just be the good guy and expect to live. Okay? Not anymore.
Rick Grimes: I'm not the good guy anymore.

  --  18 Miles Out [2.10]
%
Rick Grimes: You want to kill me, you're going to have to do better than that wrench.

  --  18 Miles Out [2.10]
%
Andrea: The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

  --  18 Miles Out [2.10]
%
Dale Horvath: The world that we knew is dead. And this new world is ugly.It's Harsh.It's-- it's survival of the fittest. And that's a world I don't wanna live in, and I don't-- And I don't believe that any of you do. I can't. Please. Let's just do what's right. Isn't there anybody else who's gonna stand with me?

  --  Judge, Jury, Executioner [2.11]
%
Carol Peletier: You know, we'll see Sophia again in heaven some day. She's in a better place.
Carl Grimes: No, she's not. Heaven is just another lie, and if you believe it, you're an idiot.

  --  Judge, Jury, Executioner [2.11]
%
Carol Peletier: Everyone either avoids me or they treat me like I'm crazy. I lost my daughter. I didn't lose my mind!

  --  Judge, Jury, Executioner [2.11]
%
Daryl Dixon: [to a dying Dale] Sorry, brother.

  --  Judge, Jury, Executioner [2.11]
%
Rick Grimes: Dale could... could get under your skin. He sure got under mine, because he wasn't afraid to say exactly what he thought, how he felt. That kind of honesty is rare and brave. Whenever I'd make a decision, I'd look at Dale. He'd be looking back at me with that look he had. We've all seen it one time or another. I couldn't always read him, but he could read us. He saw people for who they were. He knew things about us... the truth... who we really are. In the end, he was talking about losing our humanity. He said this group was broken. The best way to honor him is to unbreak it. Set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives... our safety... our future. We're not broken. We're gonna prove him wrong. From now on... we're gonna do it his way. That is how we honor Dale.

  --  Better Angels [2.12]
%
Rick Grimes: What happened to Dale had nothing to do with you.
Carl Grimes: He died, Dad.
Rick Grimes: Yeah, feels like there's a lot of that going around. That's why I need you. No more kid stuff. I wish you could have the childhood I had, but that's not gonna happen. People are gonna die. I'm gonna die. Mom... There's no way you can ever be ready for it. I try to be, but I can't. Best we can do now is avoid it as long we can, keep one step ahead. I wish I had somethin' better to say - somethin' more profound. My father was good like that. But I'm tired, son.

  --  Better Angels [2.12]
%
Shane Walsh: We tried to kill each other, man. What did you think, we gonna forget about it all, we're gonna ride off into the sunset together?
Rick Grimes: You're gonna kill me in cold blood? Screw my wife? Have my children - my children -  call you daddy? Is that what you want? That life won't be worth a damn. I know you. You won't be able to live with this.
Shane Walsh: What you know about what I can live with? You got no idea what I can live with, what I live with!

  --  Better Angels [2.12]
%
Rick Grimes': [last words spoken to Shane as he stabs him in the chest] You did this to us! This was you, not me! NOT ME!

  --  Better Angels [2.12]
%
Hershel Greene: I can't profess to understand God's plan. Christ promised a resurrection of the dead. I just assumed he had something a little different in mind.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Rick Grimes: We're all infected.
Daryl Dixon: What?
Rick Grimes': At the C.D.C., Jenner told me. Whatever it is, we all carry it.
Carol Peletier: And you never said anything?
Rick Grimes': Would it have made a difference?
Glenn Rhee: You knew this whole time?
Rick Grimes': How could I have known for sure? You saw how crazy that mo-
Glenn Rhee: That is not your call. Okay, when I found about the Walkers in the barn, I told, for the good of everyone.
Rick Grimes: Well, I thought it best that people didn't know.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Rick Grimes': [to Lori] I killed him. I killed Shane. He came at me. He killed Randall to get me in the woods. He planned it. I had - I had no choice. I gave him every chance... and he kept leading me further out. He pushed me, and I let him. After awhile, I knew - I knew what he was doing, what he was up to. And I kept going. I didn't stop. I could have, but... I just wanted it over. Dogging me every step of the way. Acting like I stole you and Carl, like... like I was in the way. I just wanted it over. I wanted him dead. I killed him. He turned. That's how I knew Jenner was right. Carl put him down.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Maggie Greene: I'm not sitting here, waiting for another herd to blow through. We need to move, now.
Rick Grimes': No one is going anywhere.
Carol Peletier: Do something.
Rick Grimes: I am doing something! I'm keeping this group together. Alive! I've been doing that all along, no matter what; I didn't ask for this! I killed my best friend for you people, for Christ sake! You saw how he was like. How he pushed me, how he compromised us, how he threatened us. He staged the whole Randall thing, led me out to put a bullet in my back. He gave me no choice! He was my friend, but he came after me. My hands are clean. Maybe you people are better off without me. Go ahead. I say there's a place for us, but maybe... maybe it's just another pipe dream. Maybe... Maybe I'm fooling myself again. Why don't... why don't you go out and find out yourself. Send me a postcard! Go on, there's the door. You can do better. Let's see how far you get. No takers? Fine. But get one thing straight. You're staying, this isn't a democracy anymore.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Carl Grimes: I'm freezing.
Lori Grimes: We'll build a fire, yeah?
Daryl Dixon: You go out looking for firewood, stay close. Only got so many arrows. How you doing on ammo?
Rick Grimes: Not enough.
Maggie Greene: We just can't stand around here with our asses hanging out.
Hershel Greene: Watch your mouth. Everyone stop panicking and listen to Rick.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Rick Grimes: Where'd you find everyone?
Daryl Dixon: Well, those guys' tail lights zigzagging all over the road - figured he had to be Asian, driving like that.
Glenn: [chuckles] Good one.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Hershel Greene: You can go if you want.
Daryl Dixon: You gonna take 'em all on?
Hershel Greene: We have guns. We have cars.
Andrea: Kill as many as we can, and we'll use the cars to lead the rest of them off the farm.
Daryl Dixon: Are you serious?
Hershel Greene: This is my farm. I'll die here.
Daryl Dixon: All right. It's as good a night as any.

  --  Beside the Dying Fire [2.13]
%
Lori Grimes: The baby is about to be here and we need to talk-
Rick Grimes: About what?
Lori Grimes: Things. We've been avoiding them-
Rick Grimes: You want to talk? Talk to Hershel. I'm doing stuff, Lori. Thangs.

  --  Seed [3.01]
%
Lori Grimes: I appreciate everything you're doing, we all do. But it's been a death march, and we're exhausted, can we just enjoy this for a few days?
Rick Grimes: The baby will be here in a few days, it's no time for a picnic.
Lori Grimes: No, but it's time to get the house in order.
Rick Grimes: What do you think I'm doing?
Lori Grimes: Your absolute best.
Rick Grimes: Don't patronize me! 

  --  Seed [3.01]
%
Tomas: It was coming at me, bro.
Rick Grimes: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. Shit happens.
[Rick kills Tomas]

  --  Sick [3.02]
%
Axel: I like my pharmaceuticals, but I'm no killer.

  --  Sick [3.02]
%
Oscar: I ain't never pleaded for my life. And I ain't about to start now.

  --  Sick [3.02]
%
Merle Dixon: Now, how's about a big hug for your old pal Merle?

  --  Walk with Me [3.03]
%
Merle Dixon: I plucked you and your mute here out of the dirt, blondie. Saved your asses. How about a thank you?
Michonne: You had a gun on us.
Merle Dixon: Ooh, she speaks. Who ain't had a gun on 'em in the past year, huh? Show of hands, y'all. Anybody? Hmm? Shumpert, Crowley. Y'all had a gun on y'all? Hell I think I'd piss my pants if some stranger come walking up with his mitts in his pockets. That'd be the son of a bitch you'd really want to be scared of.

  --  Walk with Me [3.03]
%
The Governor: Welcome to Woodbury!

  --  Walk with Me [3.03]
%
Andrea: So what's your real name? If it's not asking too much.
The Governor: I never tell.
Andrea: Never say never.
The Governor: [beat] Never.

  --  Walk with Me [3.03]
%
Lori Grimes: [to Carl] You are going to beat this world, I know you will. You are smart, and you are strong, and you are so brave, and I love you. You gotta do what's right. It's so easy to do the wrong thing in this world. So, so, if it feels wrong don't do it, alright? If it feels easy don't do it, don't let this world spoil you. You're so good, my sweet boy. Best thing I ever did and I love you, I love you. My sweet, sweet, boy I love you.

  --  Killer Within [3.04]
%
The Governor: [the Governor smiles] We could use a soldier like you.
Michonne: You seem like you're holding your own. Even the National Guard was overrun.
The Governor: No amount of training can prepare you for the world today.

  --  Killer Within [3.04]
%

[Daryl, Glenn, and Maggie volunteer to get Rick's baby formula]
Hershel Greene: She needs formula. And soon, or she won't survive.
Daryl Dixon: Nope. No way. Not her. We ain't losing nobody else. I'm going for a run.
Maggie Greene: I'll back you up.
Glenn Rhee: I'll go, too.

  --  Say the Word [3.05]
%
[Daryl cradles Rick's baby in his arm]
Daryl Dixon: She got a name yet?
Carl Grimes: Not yet. But I was thinking maybe Sofia. Then there's Carol, too. And... Andrea. Amy. Jacqui. Patricia. Or... Lori. I don't know.

  --  Say the Word [3.05]
%
[the Governor tells Michonne that they have nothing to hide in Woodbury]
The Governor: You get off on that? Poking around other people's things? Hmm? We got nothing to hide here.
Michonne: People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

  --  Say the Word [3.05]
%
Merle Dixon: Look at this. She sent us a biter-gram, y'all.

  --  Hounded [3.06]
%
Daryl Dixon: You know, my mom, she liked her wine. She liked to smoke in bed. Virginia Slims. I was playing out with the kids in the neighborhood. I could do that with Merle gone. They had bikes, I didn't. We heard sirens getting louder. They jumped on their bikes, ran after it, you know, hoping to see something worth seeing. I ran after them, but I couldn't keep up. I ran around a corner and saw my friends looking at me. Hell, I saw everybody looking at me. Fire trucks everywhere. People from the neighborhood. It was my house they were there for. It was my mom in bed burnt down to nothing. That was the hard part. You know, she was just gone. Erased. Nothing left of her. People said it was better that way. I don't know. Just made it seem like it wasn't real, you know?
Carl Grimes: I shot my mom. She was out. Hadn't turned yet. I ended it. It was real. I'm sorry about your mom.
Daryl Dixon: I'm sorry about yours.

  --  Hounded [3.06]
%
Rick Grimes: You know, what you did for me, for my baby, while I was... working things out... thank you.
Daryl Dixon: It's what we do. 

  --  When the Dead Come Knocking [3.07]
%
Rick Grimes: We can tend to that wound for you, give you a little food and water, and then send you on your way. But you're gonna have to tell us how you found us and why you were carrying formula.
Michonne: The supplies were dropped by a young Asian guy with a pretty girl.
Rick Grimes: What happened?
Hershel Greene: Were they attacked?
Michonne: They were taken.
Rick Grimes: Taken? By who?
Michonne: [about the Governor] By the same son of a bitch who shot me.

  --  When the Dead Come Knocking [3.07]
%
The Governor: What happened tonight is horrible. We haven't have a day like that since the wall was built. I failed in my duty. I should say that we're going be OK, and we're safe we will bury our dead tomorrow and watch TV on the sofa. But I won't. Because I can't. Cause I'm afraid. I'm afraid that the terrorists want what we have! They want to destroy us! And worst. Because one of those terrorists is one of our own. Merle! The man I counted on! Man I trusted. He brought them here! He let them in. How could you! You lied! He betrayed us all! This is one of the terrorists huh. Merle's own brother! So what should we do with them, huh?
Woodbury Crowd: Kill them!!!
The Governor: What? What do you want?
Woodbury Crowd: Kill them!!!
The Governor: You wanted your brother. Now you got him.

  --  Made to Suffer [3.08]
%
The Governor: When I asked you where your loyalty was you said it was here. Well prove it. Prove it to us all. Brother against brother. The winner goes free. A fight, to the death!

  --  The Suicide King [3.09]
%
Merle Dixon: Man, look like you've gone native, brother.
Daryl Dixon: No more than you hanging out with that psycho back there.
Merle Dixon: Oh, yeah, man. He's a real charmer, I got to tell you that.

  --  The Suicide King [3.09]
%
Merle Dixon: The shit you doing, pointing that thing at me?
Daryl Dixon: They were scared, man.
Merle Dixon: They were rude is what they were. Rude and they owed us a token of gratitude.
Daryl Dixon: They didn't owe us nothing.
Merle Dixon: You helping people out of the goodness of your heart? Even though you might die doing it? Is that something your Sheriff Rick taught you?
Daryl Dixon: There was a baby!
Merle Dixon: Oh, otherwise you would have just left them to the biters, then?
Daryl Dixon: Man, I went back for you. You weren't there. I didn't cut off your hand, neither. You did that. Way before they locked you up on that roof. You asked for it.
Merle Dixon: You know what's funny to me? You and Sheriff Rick are like this now. Right? I bet you a penny and a fiddle of gold that you never told him that we were planning on robbing that camp blind.
Daryl Dixon: It didn't happen.
Merle Dixon: Yeah, it didn't, 'cause I wasn't there to help you.
Daryl Dixon: What, like when we were kids, huh? Who left who then?
Merle Dixon: What?! Huh?! Is that why I lost my hand?!
Daryl Dixon: You lost your hand 'cause you're a simple-minded piece of shit!
Merle Dixon: Yeah? You don't know!
[Daryl's shirt rips open, Merle looks horrified, Daryl's back is covered with scars from years of childhood abuse]
Merle Dixon: I... I didn't know he was...
Daryl Dixon: Yeah, he did.
[Daryl tries to hastily cover up his back with the torn pieces of his shirt and his knapsack]
Daryl Dixon: He did the same to you. That's why you left first.
Merle Dixon: I had to, man. I would have killed him otherwise. Where you going?
Daryl Dixon: Back where I belong.
Merle Dixon: I can't go with you. I... I tried to kill that black bitch. Damn nearly killed that Chinese kid.
Daryl Dixon: He's Korean.
Merle Dixon: Whatever. Doesn't matter man. I just can't go with you.
Daryl Dixon [to Merle]: You know, I might be the one walking away, but you're the one who's leaving. Again.

  --  Home [3.10]
%
[Daryl's leaving Merle and going back to Rick's group]
Merle Dixon: Where're you going?
Daryl Dixon: Back where I belong!
Merle Dixon: I can't go with you! I tried to kill that black bitch. Damn near killed that Chinese kid.
Daryl Dixon: He's Korean.
Merle Dixon: Whatever. Doesn't matter, man, I can't go with you!
Daryl Dixon: You know, I may be the one walking away, but you're the one who's leaving... Again.

  --  Home [3.10]
%
Hershel Greene: You know I wouldn't have hobbled all the way down here if it wasn't important. Are you coming back soon? Glenn's on a warpath. Smart as he is, he can't fill your boots. I'm afraid he's reckless. We need you now more than ever.
Rick Grimes: Well, If you're so worried about him, you lead.
Hershel Greene: What are you doing out here?
Rick Grimes: I've- I've been- I've got... stuff out here. Stuff.

  --  Home [3.10]
%
Merle Dixon: You're the farmer, Hershel.
Hershel Greene: And you're the black sheep, Merle.

  --  I Ain't Judas [3.11]
%
Milton Mamet: She's going back to the prison and has requested my assistance in escaping. Her words, not mine.
The Governor: Help her.
Milton Mamet: Okay, do you really want me to do that, or is this some sort of test?
The Governor: If she asks for help, help her. Milton. Good work.

  --  I Ain't Judas [3.11]
%
Michonne: You see something? I know you see things. People. I used to talk to my dead boyfriend. It happens.
Rick Grimes: You want to drive?
Michonne: Yeah.
Rick Grimes: Good. I see things.

  --  Clear [3.12]
%
Rick Grimes: We found a prison. The fences can keep 'em out.
Morgan Jones: Is that where your wife died? Just go. Don't go back. Don't stop. Just get yourself some more time.
Rick Grimes: Look, I can help you. You can come back with us. You can heal.
Morgan Jones: You're taking a lot of guns, Rick. No, I'm just saying that that all is a lot of guns. Why do you need the guns, Rick? 'Cause if you got something good, that just means that someone wants to take it. And that is what is happening, right?
Rick Grimes: We're gonna win. You can be there. You can help.
Morgan Jones: You will be torn apart by teeth or bullets. You and your boy. Your people, but not me. Because I'm not gonna watch that happen again.

  --  Clear [3.12]
%
Michonne: You think I was gonna let you go in there?
Carl Grimes: I just think it's none of your business. You don't know me. You don't know my dad.
Michonne: I came out here to help.
Carl Grimes: You came out here for common interests. We have the same enemy and same the problem. And that's why you're here. That's it. This is important. I'm going to do this. And I know how I can. You can't stop me.
Michonne: I can't stop you. But you can't stop me from helping you.

  --  Clear [3.12]
%
The Governor: I thought you were a cop, not a lawyer.
Rick Grimes: Either way, I don't pretend to be a governor.

  --  Arrow on the Doorpost [3.13]
%
Milton Mamet: What about the deal?
The Governor: Well, they'll bring Rick, Merle's brother, maybe Glenn, Merle himself. We can take care of the whole crew. Best way to avoid a slaughter.
Milton Mamet: That is a slaughter.
The Governor: Not at our end. We're gonna have to eliminate Rick soon or later. No way we can live side by side.

  --  Arrow on the Doorpost [3.13]
%
Michonne: [in reference to her Walker "pets"] They deserve what they got. They weren't human to begin with.

  --  Prey [3.14]
%
Merle Dixon: [to Rick] You know something? You're right. I don't know why I do the things I do. Never did. I'm a damn mystery to me.

  --  This Sorrowful Life [3.15]
%
Merle Dixon: Maybe these people need somebody like me around, huh? Do their dirty work. The bad guy.

  --  This Sorrowful Life [3.15]
%
Merle Dixon: You got to play the hand you're dealt. I only got one.
Michonne: You talk about the weight of what you have to do, how you can handle it. A bad man, someone truly evil? They're light as a feather. They don't feel a thing.

  --  This Sorrowful Life [3.15]
%
Michonne: The truth is this could have been your shot. With your skills, a whole new beginning. But you choose to stay on the outside. No one's gonna mourn you, not even Daryl. He's got a new family.
Merle Dixon: You keep trying to get under my skin, I'm gonna cut that tongue out. Your buddy's turning you over 'cause he's trying to save his own ass. You're as much on the outside as I am, girl.
Michonne: Maybe. But once the Governor's done with me, at least I won't have to live with myself. You said you killed 16 men since this thing started? You ever kill anyone before?
Merle Dixon: No.
Michonne: And how about before Woodbury? Before you met him? Huh. So he saves your life, cleans you up, fed you a line of bullshit. Why would you kill somebody else for him? You know, we can go back.
Merle Dixon: Ain't happening.
Michonne: Both of us. We can just go back.
Merle Dixon: I can't go back. Don't you understand that? I can't.

  --  This Sorrowful Life [3.15]
%
[The Governor has subdued Merle, and draws his gun]
Merle Dixon: I ain't gonna beg. I ain't begging you!
The Governor: No. [shoots Merle]

  --  This Sorrowful Life [3.15]
%
The Governor: [to Milton] I told you to kill her but you didn't. And now you're gonna turn and you're gonna tear away the flesh from her bones. In this life now you kill or you die. Or you die and you kill.

  --  Welcome to the Tombs [3.16]
%
Andrea: No one can make it alone now.
Daryl Dixon: Never could.

  --  Welcome to the Tombs [3.16]
%
Carl Grimes: You didn't wake me up.
Rick Grimes: I knew you were up all night reading comics with a flashlight.

  --   30 Days Without an Accident [4.01]
%
Daryl Dixon: Smells good.
Carol Peletier: Just so you know, I liked you first.
Daryl Dixon: Stop. You know, Rick brought in a lot of them, too.
Carol Peletier: Not recently. Give the stranger sanctuary, keep people fed, you're gonna have to learn to live with the love.

  --   30 Days Without an Accident [4.01]
%
Patrick: [to Daryl] Uh, Mr. Dixon? I just want to say thank you for bringing that deer back yesterday. It was a real treat, sir. And I'd be honored to shake your hand. [Daryl licks his fingers then shakes Patrick's hand]

  --   30 Days Without an Accident [4.01]
%
Rick Grimes: Wasn't much use without my gun.
Daryl Dixon: No, you were. All this time you've taking off, you earned it. We wouldn't be here without you.
Rick Grimes: It was all of us.
Daryl Dixon: No, it was you first. You gonna help us figure this out?
Rick Grimes: I screwed up too many times. Those calls you gotta make, I start down that road... I almost lost my boy - who he was. Whatever else this place needs, I'm here for it.
Daryl Dixon: Like I said, you earned it. But for what it's worth, you see mistakes. I see when the shit hits, you're standing there with a shovel.

  --   Infected [4.02]
%
Michonne: Any requests? Books? Comics? Some stale M&Ms?
Carl Grimes: You're the one that likes stale M&Ms.
Michonne: [smiles] Then I'll definitely look for some.

  --   Infected [4.02]
%
Michonne: It was stupid. I was so stupid. When I fell on my ass, they should have just left me out there.
Beth Greene: Now that's stupid. We care about you.
Michonne: They could have gotten hurt.
Beth Greene: When you care about people, hurt is kind of part of the package.

  --   Infected [4.02]
%
Hershel Greene: We just went through something terrible. Everything we've been working so hard to keep out, it found its way in.
Rick Grimes: No. It's always there.

  --  Isolation [4.03]
%
Daryl Dixon: I'm gonna take a group out. Best not waste any more time.
Michonne: I'm in.
Hershel Greene: You've haven't been exposed. Daryl has. You get in the car with him...
Michonne: He's already given me fleas.

  --  Isolation [4.03]
%
Hershel Greene: You step outside, you risk your life. You take a drink of water, you risk your life. And nowadays you breathe, and you risk your life. Every moment now you don't have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for. Now I can make these people feel better and hang on a little bit longer. I can save lives. That's reason enough to risk mine. And you know that.

  --  Isolation [4.03]
%
Daryl Dixon: Those douchebags in the vines took themselves out, holding hands, kumbaya-style.
Bob Stookey: They wanted to go out together same as they lived. That makes them douchebags?
Daryl Dixon: It does if they could have gotten out.
Bob Stookey: Everybody makes it, till they don't. People nowadays are dominoes. What they did, maybe it's about not having to watch them fall.

  --  Indifference [4.04]
%
Rick Grimes: Did you think it was right? Letting those kids come back with us?
Carol Peletier: I think it was the humane thing to do.
Rick Grimes: But did you think it was right?
Carol Peletier: Look at us. Digging through drawers, hoping that... a couple of cough drops and some disinfectant might be the difference between dying and living a couple of more hours. If they're strong enough to help us survive this thing, yeah, I think you made the right call.
Rick Grimes: And if they're not?
Carol Peletier: Let's hope they are.

  --  Indifference [4.04]
%
Carol Peletier: Rick... I killed two people and you haven't said a word about it.
Rick Grimes: What do you want me to say?
Carol Peletier: It's not about what you say. It's about facing reality. It always comes for us and over and over again we face it so that we can live.
Rick Grimes: So that we can live.
Carol Peletier: That's right. That's what it always comes down to.

  --  Indifference [4.04]
%
Hershel Greene: Some council meeting, huh?
Sasha: We're two members short.
Hershel Greene: I think we should make some new rules before they get back. I hereby declare we have spaghetti Tuesdays every Wednesday. First we have to find some spaghetti.

  --  Internment [4.05]
%
Tyreese: How's Glenn doing?
Hershel Greene: He made it through the night. He's breathing on his own now. Maggie and Bob are with him. He seems stable enough for me to get some air.
Daryl Dixon: He's a tough son of a bitch.
Hershel Greene: He is.
Daryl Dixon: You're a tough son of a bitch.
Hershel Greene: I am.

  --  Internment [4.05]
%
Lilly Chambler: Where should we go?
The Governor: Where ever they let us. There's no use making a plan.
Lilly Chambler: Who?
The Governor: The roads. The biters.

  --  Live Bait [4.06]
%
Megan Chambler: [Holding up a pawn] What's this one called?
The Governor: That's a pawn. They're your soldiers.
Megan Chambler: Do they die?
The Governor: Sometimes.
Megan Chambler: Do you lose if they die?
The Governor: [Glances in the bedroom] No, not necessarily. You can lose a lot of soldiers but still win the game.
[Megan holds up the king]
The Governor: That's the king. That's the guy you want to capture.
[Megan goes to the kitchen counter, returns with a Sharpie]
The Governor: What're you doing?
Megan Chambler: You'll see.
[Megan uses Sharpie on the king pieces, then holds up the king with eye patch markings]
Megan Chambler: Looks like you.
The Governor: Yeah.
[He chuckles, admires the king piece]
The Governor: Come on, let's play. [Setting up chess pieces] See, these are pawns...

  --  Live Bait [4.06]
%
The Governor: You can't think forever. Sooner or later, you've got to make a move.
Megan Chambler: You never let me win anyway.
The Governor: Well, that wouldn't be winning. That's what my daddy used to say. He used to beat me at chess, too. Heck, he used to beat me at everything.
Megan Chambler: Was your dad mean?
The Governor: Sometimes.
Megan Chambler: Were you bad?
The Governor: Sometimes.

  --  Dead Weight [4.07]
%
Pete Dolgen: Man, what happened here? I mean, what the hell is going on in this cabin? Were they storing those biters?
Caesar Martinez: They were his wife and kid, man.
Pete Dolgen: No, they were biters. What about those heads?
Caesar Martinez: Belonged to the guys who did the wrong thing to the wrong man.
The Governor: Probably best not think too much about it.
Mitch Dolgen: Better listen to One Eye Bri, Pete. I can never tell if he's winking or blinking. But you know how to regulate. Don't you, Bri? He was always like this, Martinez?
Caesar Martinez: Oh, yeah. Ice in the veins. You should have seen him back in the day.

  --  Dead Weight [4.07]
%
Mitch Dolgen: End of the world don't mean shit when you got a tank.
Pete Dolgen: I was Army, too. Stationed out of Fort Benning. Stayed for a while after it all started.
Mitch Dolgen: That's my Pete. He's too loyal to bounce.

  --  Dead Weight [4.07]
%
The Governor: I remember the first smoke I ever had. Me and my brother huddled in the garage puffing on one of my dad's Lucky Strikes. He must have smelled the smoke, because he came barging in looking to beat up on us. But my brother got between us. Said he stole them. Wasn't true. It was me. But that was my brother. Hero. He got two black eyes and a broken rib for that. And I got beat anyway.

  --  Dead Weight [4.07]
%
Glenn Rhee: I could use a vacation. Get away. Just for a weekend.
Maggie Greene: Yeah.
Glenn Rhee: You know, our anniversary is coming up.
Maggie Greene: It is?
Glenn Rhee: One of these days.
Maggie Greene: You've ever been to Amicalola Falls? Tallest waterfalls in Georgia.
Glenn Rhee: Mm-mmm.
Maggie Greene: My Dad took me there when I was little. When we were up there, all the way at the top looking down, I felt like I was flying.
Glenn Rhee: I'll go load up the station wagon.

  --  Too Far Gone [4.08]
%
Hershel Greene: If you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how can you threaten to kill someone else's?
The Governor: Because they aren't mine.

  --  Too Far Gone [4.08]
%
The Governor: Rick! Come down here. We need to talk.
Rick Grimes: It's not up to me. There's a council now. They run this place.
The Governor: Is Hershel on the council? What about Michonne? She on the council, too?
Rick Grimes: I don't make decisions anymore.
The Governor: You're making the decisions today, Rick. Come down here. Let's have that talk.

  --  Too Far Gone [4.08]
%
Rick Grimes: [points to Tara] You. You in the ponytails. Is this what you want? Is this what any one of you want?
Mitch Dolgen: What we want is what you got. Period. Time for you to leave, asshole.
Rick Grimes: Look, I fought him before. And after, we took in his old friends. They've become leaders in what we have here. Now you put down your weapons, walk through those gates you're one of us. We let go of all of it, and nobody dies. Everyone who's alive right now. Everyone who's made it this far. We've all done the worst kinds of things just to stay alive. But we can still come back. We're not too far gone. We get to come back. I know we all can change.
[The Governor looks at Michonne's sword, and there is a tense pause]
The Governor: [quietly] Liar.
[decapitates Hershel]
Rick Grimes: NO! [draws his revolver & fires at the Governor]

  --  Too Far Gone [4.08]
%
The Governor: Go through the fences. Get in your cars, get your guns. We go in, kill them all!

  --  Too Far Gone [4.08]
%
Rick Grimes: Don't look back, Carl. Just keep walking.

  --  Too Far Gone [4.08]
%
Carl Grimes: I tied the door shut.
Rick Grimes: We don't need to take any chances.
Carl Grimes: You don't think it'll hold?
Rick Grimes: Carl.
Carl Grimes: It's a strong knot. Clove hitch. Shane taught me. Remember him?
Rick Grimes: Yeah, I remember him. I remember him every day.

  --  After [4.09]
%
Rick Grimes: [Rick talking to Carl after abandoning the prison] I know... we'll never get things back to the way they used to be. I would've clung to that for you, for Judith, but now she's gone. And you... you're a man now, Carl.

  --  After [4.09]
%
Beth Greene: [writing in her diary] Hey. I know it's been a while. I'm gonna be honest, I forgot about you. After the farm, we were always moving. But something happened. Something good. Finally. We found a prison. Daddy thinks that we can make it into a home. He says we can grow crops in the field, find pigs and chickens, stop running, stop scavenging. Lori's baby is just about due. She'll need a safe place when it comes. The rest of us, we just need a safe place to be. I woke up in my own bed yesterday. My own bed in my own room. But I've been keeping my backpack. Keeping my gun close. I've been afraid to get my hopes up thinking we can actually stay here. The thing is, I've been starting to get afraid that it's easier just to be afraid. But this morning Daddy said something. If you don't have hope, what's the point of living? So I unpacked my bag and I found you. So I'm gonna start writing in you again. And I'm gonna write this down now because you should write down wishes to make them come true. We can live here. We can live here for the rest of our lives.

  --  Inmates [4.10]
%
Tara Chambler: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Brian, that man, told us you were bad people. I know it's not true. I can see it's not, so what we did, what I did I mean, I'm a piece of shit. Why would you want my help?
Glenn Rhee: I don't want it, I need it. I have to find Maggie.
Tara Chambler: Who's Maggie?
Glenn Rhee: She's my wife.
Tara Chambler: You guys got separated?
Glenn Rhee: I was on the bus and then I got off to help and she didn't see me.
Tara Chambler: How do you know if she made it?
Glenn Rhee: I don't know. But Hershel, Maggie's father, was a great man. And he told me all I had to do was believe, and that's what I'm gonna do.

  --  Inmates [4.10]
%
Abraham Ford: Son of a dick!

  --  Claimed [4.11]
%
Michonne: I'm sorry. I'm not very good at making boys your age laugh.
Carl Grimes: I was laughing. Inside.
Michonne: Toddlers find me funny. Two, three-year-olds.
Carl Grimes: What do you mean toddlers?
Michonne: I had a three-year-old son and he happened to find me extremely funny.

  --  Claimed [4.11]
%
Abraham Ford: So you tell me how in the holy hell did you possibly kill this truck?
Eugene Porter: A fully amped-up state and an ignorance of rapid-firing weapons.

  --  Claimed [4.11]
%
Beth Greene: So you want to spend the rest of our lives staring into a fire and eating mud snakes? Screw that.

  --  Still [4.12]
%
Beth Greene: [to Daryl] I know you look at me and you just see another dead girl. I'm not Michonne. I'm not Carol. I'm not Maggie. I've survived and you don't get it 'cause I'm not like you or them. But I made it and you don't get to treat me like crap just because you're afraid.

  --  Still [4.12]
%
Beth Greene: You're gonna miss me so bad when I'm gone, Daryl Dixon.

  --  Still [4.12]
%
Daryl Dixon: Merle had this dealer. This janky little white guy. A tweaker. One day we were over at his house watching TV. Wasn't even noon yet and we were all wasted. Merle was high. We were watching this show and Merle was talking all this dumb stuff about it. And he wouldn't let up. Merle never could. Turns out it was the tweaker's kid's favorite show. And he never sees his kids, so he felt guilty about it or something. So he punches Merle in the face. So I started hitting the tweaker like, hard. As hard as I can. Then he pulls a gun, sticks it right here. He says, "I'm gonna kill you, bitch." So Merle pulls his gun on him. Everyone's yelling. I'm yelling. I thought I was dead. Over a dumb cartoon about a talking dog. The tweaker punched me in the gut. I puked. They both started laughing and forgot all about it.

  --  Still [4.12]
%
Daryl Dixon: Peanut butter and jelly, diet soda, and pig's feet. That's a white trash brunch right there.
Beth Greene: [smiles] It all looks good to me.

  --  Alone [4.13]
%
Joe: [to Daryl] A bowman. I respect that. See a man with a rifle, he could have been some kind of photographer or a soccer coach back in the day. But a bowman's a bowman through and through.

  --  Alone [4.13]
%
Joe: Why hurt yourself when you can hurt other people?

  --  Alone [4.13]
%
Lizzie Samuels: Did you have kids?
Carol Peletier: I did. A kid. A daughter.
Lizzie Samuels: What was she like?
Carol Peletier: She was sweet. She didn't have a mean bone in her body.
Lizzie Samuels: Is that why she isn't here now?

  --  The Grove [4.14]
%
Mika Samuels: When we were giving them names, we were just pretending things weren't bad. Things are bad. Those things, they're bad. They are. We can't pretend anymore.
Lizzie Samuels: I'm not pretending. You were.

  --  The Grove [4.14]
%
Tyreese: The whole world is haunted now.

  --  The Grove [4.14]
%
Eugene Porter: I'm well aware it sounds bananas. But looking at the fossil record, knowing what I know about this infection, you cannot say for certain it isn't what killed off the dinosaurs. Now, do I believe that's what happened? No. But it's enjoyable as hell to think about an undead ankylosaur going after a diplodocus. That there is a video game worth a pre-order.

  --  Us [4.15]
%
Joe: See, going it alone, that ain't an option nowadays. Still, it is survival of the fittest. That's a paradox right there. So I laid out some rules of the road to keep things from going Darwin every couple hours. Keep our merry band together and stress-free. All you got to do is claim. That's how you mark your territory, your prey, your bed at night. One word, claimed.

  --  Us [4.15]
%
Daryl Dixon: There ain't no us.
Joe: You leaving right now? No? Then it sure seems like there's an us.You a cat person, Daryl? I am. Loved 'em since I was three years old. Vicious creatures. Anyway, I'll tell you, and this is true, ain't nothing sadder than an outdoor cat that thinks he's an indoor cat.

  --  Us [4.15]
%
Joe: [with regard to Len] Well teach him a lesson, gents. He's a lying sack of shit. I'm sick of it. Teach him all the way.

  --  Us [4.15]
%
Joe: Seems to me like things are finally starting to fall together. At least for guys like us.

  --  Us [4.15]
%
Joe: [to Rick] Look, we can settle this. We're reasonable men. First, we're gonna beat Daryl to death. Then we'll have the girl. Then the boy. Then I'm gonna shoot you and then we'll be square.

  --  A [4.16]
%
Joe: [to Rick] What the hell are you gonna do now, sport?
[Rick lunges forward and rips open Joe's throat with his teeth, killing him]

  --  A [4.16]
%
Dan: [holds Carl at knifepoint] I'll kill him!
Michonne: [to Dan while aiming a revolver at him] Let the boy go.
Rick Grimes: [to Michonne as he prepares to gut Carl's captor] He's MINE.

  --  A [4.16]
%
Michonne: We went to a refugee camp. Andre and my boyfriend Mike, that was Andre's father, and our friend Terry. At the camp, it just got worse and worse. People were leaving. People giving up. But I didn't. I was coming back from a run. I saw the fences were down. I heard the moans. It was over. And Mike and Terry, they were high when it happened. They were bit. Could have stopped it. Could have killed them. But I let them turn. I made it so they couldn't bite, couldn't scratch. I tied chains around their necks. It was insane. It was sick. It felt like what I deserved, dragging them around so that I would always know. I found out that they kept me safe. They hid me. The walkers didn't see me anymore. I was just another monster.

  --  A [4.16]
%
Rick Grimes:  They're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out...
Abraham Ford: Find out what?
Rick Grimes:  They're screwin' with the wrong people.

  --  A [4.16]
%
Alex: We should never have put up the signs. What the hell did we think was gonna happen? We brought them here.
Gareth: We were trying to do something good. We were being human beings.
Alex: What are we now, Gareth?

  --  No Sanctuary [5.01]
%
Rick Grimes: [to Gareth] There's a compound bow and a machete with a red handle. That's what I'm gonna use to kill you.

  --  No Sanctuary [5.01]
%
Martin: I don't have any friends. I mean, I know people. They're just assholes I stay alive with. I don't have any friends. The other one your friend? The woman? I used to have them. Used to watch football on Sundays. Went to church. I know I did. But I can't picture it anymore. It's funny how you don't even notice the time go by. Horrible shit just stacks up day after day. You get used to it.
Tyreese Williams: I haven't gotten used to it.
Martin: Of course you haven't. You're the kind of guy who saves babies. It's kind of like saving an anchor when you're stuck without a boat in the middle of the ocean. Been behind some kind of walls, right? You're still around, but you haven't had to get your hands dirty. I can tell. See, you're a good guy.

  --  No Sanctuary [5.01]
%
Mary: The signs they were real. It was a sanctuary. People came and took this place.
Carol Peletier: Just tell me where--
Mary: - And they raped and they killed and they laughed over weeks. But we got out and we fought and we got it back. And we heard the message: you're the butcher or you're the cattle.

  --  No Sanctuary [5.01]
%
Eugene Porter: I'm not fleet of foot. I sure as hell can't take a dead one down with sharp buttons and hella confidence.

  --  No Sanctuary [5.01]
%
Gabriel Stokes: I have no weapons of any kind. The word of God is the only protection I need.

  --  Strangers [5.02]
%
Gabriel Stokes: I'm a sinner. I sin almost every day. But those sins, I confess them to God, not strangers.

  --  Strangers [5.02]
%
Abraham Ford: I'd like to propose a toast. I look around this room and I see survivors. Each and every one of you has earned that title. To the survivors!
[everybody toasts]
Abraham Ford: Is that all you want to be? Wake up in the morning, fight the undead pricks, forage for food, go to sleep at night with two eyes open, rinse and repeat? 'Cause you can do that. I mean, you got the strength. You got the skill. Thing is, for you people, for what you can do, that's just surrender. Now, we get Eugene to Washington and he will make the dead die and the living will have this world again. And that is not a bad takeaway for a little road trip.

  --  Strangers [5.02]
%
Abraham Ford: Come with us. Save the world for that little one. Save it for yourselves. Save it for the people out there who don't got nothing left to do except survive.

  --  Strangers [5.02]
%
Gareth: [to Bob] Good news is you're not dead yet. That's a relief, right? But try not to read too much into the word 'yet' there. It'll just drive you crazy, Bob. I want to explain myself a little. You see, we didn't want to hurt you before. We didn't want to pull you away from your group or scare you. These aren't things that we want to do. They're things we got to do. You and your people took away our home. That's fair play. Now we're out here like everybody else trying to survive. And in order to do that, we have to hunt. Didn't start that way, eating people. It evolved into that. We evolved. We had to. And now we've devolved...into hunters. I told you, I said it. Can't go back, Bob. I just hope you understand that nothing happening to you now is personal. Yeah, you put us in this situation and it is almost kind of a cosmic justice for it to be you, but we would have done this to anybody. We will. But at the end of the day, no matter how much we hate all this ugly business...
[Bob looks down to see his leg has been amputated[
Gareth: ...a man's got to eat. [taking a bite out of a piece of meat] If it makes you feel any better, you taste much better than we thought you would.

  --  Strangers [5.02]
%
Bob Stookey: [to Gareth and the Hunters] I've been bitten, you stupid pricks! I'm tainted meat!

  --  Four Walls and a Roof [5.03]
%
[Rick has Gareth at his mercy]
Gareth: We can walk away, and we will never cross paths again! I promise you!
Rick Grimes: But you'll cross someone's path. You'd do this to anyone, right? Besides, I already made you a promise.
Gareth: No!
[Rick kills Gareth with his machete]

  --  Four Walls and a Roof [5.03]
%
Gabriel Stokes: This is the Lord's house!
Maggie Greene: No. It's just four walls and a roof.

  --  Four Walls and a Roof [5.03]
%
Bob Stookey: Nightmares end. They shouldn't end who you are. And that is just this dead man's opinion.

  --  Four Walls and a Roof [5.03]
%
[Rick reads the map to Washington DC that Abraham has left for him & his group]
Abraham Ford: Sorry I was an asshole. Come to Washington. The New World's gonna need Rick Grimes.

  --  Four Walls and a Roof [5.03]
%
Noah: [to Beth] See, they think I'm scrawny. They think I'm weak. But they don't know shit about me. About what I am. About what you are.

  --  Slabtown [5.04]
%
Joan: I guess it's easy to make a deal with the devil when you're not the one paying the price.

  --  Slabtown [5.04]
%
Steven Edwards: When everything started, Dawn reported to a guy named Hanson. They had orders to clear the hospital and move everyone to Butler Park. It was close to midnight when we heard the jets, the bombs. The screams. I was on the third floor. Dawn and Hanson's teams were doing a final sweep. And we knew it was bad. Just didn't know how bad till we came up here. The city had fallen. And everyone we evacuated...they were just...gone.

  --  Slabtown [5.04]
%
Dawn Lerner: A good man's mistakes almost ended everything for us, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let that happen again. Every sacrifice we make needs to be for the greater good. The second it isn't, the second we lose sight of that, it's all over.

  --  Slabtown [5.04]
%
Dawn Lerner: Who the hell do you think you are?
Beth Greene: He attacked me. Just like he attacked Joan. Just like you let him. You know what's happening here and you let it happen. You're letting it happen!
Dawn Lerner: So that we make it!
Beth Greene: No one's coming, Dawn! No one's coming. We're all gonna die and you let this happen for nothing.

  --  Slabtown [5.04]
%
Eugene Porter: The smartest man I ever met happened to love my hair. My old boss, T. Brooks Ellis, the director of the Human Genome Project. He said my hair made me look like, and I quote, "a fun guy," which I am. I just ain't Samson.

  --  Self Help [5.05]
%
Abraham Ford: Gotten to the point where everyone alive is strong now. We have to be. You're either strong and they can help you so you help them or you're strong and they can kill ya. So you gotta kill them. You gotta kill them and...[sighs] I want to say it's never easy. That's not the truth. It's the easiest thing in the world now.

  --  Self Help [5.05]
%
Eugene Porter: [to Tara] I appreciate the positive affirmations and looking the other way on the perversion, but I know empirically and definitively I cannot survive on my own.

  --  Self Help [5.05]
%
Tara Chambler: [to Eugene]  Welcome to the human race, asshole.

  --  Self Help [5.05]
%
Maggie Greene: I know why you have the haircut.
Eugene Porter: I told you, it's 'cause I like it.
Maggie Greene: I believe that. I like it, too. I think you like it for a reason. You're not the person people think you are. You want 'em to know who you are.
Eugene Porter: Not following you.
Maggie Greene: If you didn't have that mullet, you'd probably be like everybody else in the labs. But you're not like everybody else. I think a lot of people in your position probably woulda given up, but you didn't.
Eugene Porter: There were people-- a lot of them along the way-- they made sure I didn't give up. It wasn't me remotely.
Maggie Greene: It was. You started this thing. And you're not like Samson. He was kind of a mess.
Eugene Porter: Not following you.
Maggie Greene: Well, his story goes that one day when a lion attacked him, God gave him strength and he tore it apart. Then he goes back one day, he's by himself, and he sees that bees have made a hive in the carcass. So later he tells this riddle to people. "Out of the eater, something to eat. Out of the strong, something sweet." And I always thought, "How the hell are people supposed to know the answer when it's just about his own life? When the only place the answer is, is in his own head?"

  --  Self Help [5.05]
%
Carol Peletier: You said we get to start over.
Daryl Dixon: Yeah.
Carol Peletier: Did you?
Daryl Dixon: I'm tryin'. Why don't you say what's really on your mind?
Carol Peletier: I don't think we get to save people anymore.
Daryl Dixon: Then why are you here?
Carol Peletier: I'm tryin'.

  --  Consumed [5.06]
%
Daryl Dixon: Some days, I don't know what the hell to think.

  --  Consumed [5.06]
%
Carol Peletier: I don't know if I believe in God anymore or heaven, but if I'm going to hell, I'm making damn sure I'm holding it off as long as I can.

  --  Consumed [5.06]
%
Noah: We can get her back. We can get Beth back.
Daryl Dixon: What's it gonna take?
Noah: A lot. They got guns, people.
Daryl Dixon: So do we.

  --  Consumed [5.06]
%
Tara Chambler: Listen, I don't know what to do without D.C. anymore, but I'm not dealing with him. I'm over it. I just want him to be okay. Eugene wasn't strong. He isn't fast. He doesn't know how to use a weapon. The truth hurts, but he's useless. He had one skill that kept him living. Are we suppose to be mad at him 'cause he used it?
Glenn Rhee: Damn right. 

  --  Crossed [5.07]
%
Tara Chambler: Were you with Abrahma before it all happened?
Rosita Espinosa: No. No, I was with other people just trying to make it.
Glenn Rhee: How did you wind up together?
Rosita Espinosa: We crossed paths in Dallas. Me and my group, we were fighting off some dead ones and he jumped in from out of nowhere with that big truck. Rest in peace. He had Eugene in the cab. And afterwards, he told me that he was trying to save the world. And then he saw what I could do. And he wanted my help. He was the first person to ask me for that since this all started. Maybe he was lying too.

  --  Crossed [5.07]
%
[Beth asks Dawn about the photograph in her office]
Beth Greene: Is this Captain Hanson?
Officer Dawn Lerner: Did someone say something to you about him?
Beth Greene: Just that he use to be in charge.
Officer Dawn Lerner: Well, you'll hear stories about him. About me. About what I did. he was my mentor. My friend. I miss him. That's the part that the stories leave out.
Beth Greene: What happened to him?
Officer Dawn Lerner: They risk their lives every time they go out there. It has to be worth it. It has to matter. He lost sight of that. So he lost them. Beth, in this job you don't need their love... but you have to have their respect. Otherwise, the day is gonna come where you need backup and you don't have it. And what comes next? Everybody goes down. Hanson lost his way. That's what happened.

  --  Coda [5.08]
%
Officer Shepherd: No! Hold your fire! It's over. It was just about her. Stand down. You can stay.
Dr. Steven Edwards: We're surviving here. It's better here than out there.
Rick Grimes: No. And I'm taking anybody back there who wants to leave. If you want to come with us... just step forward now.

  --  Coda [5.08]
%
Tyreese Williams: My dad always told Sasha and me that it was our duty as citizens of the world to keep up with the news. When I was little and I was in his car, there were always those stories on the radio. Something happens 1,000 miles away or down the block. Some kind of horror I couldn't even wrap my head around. But he didn't change the channel. He didn't turn it off. He just kept listening. To face it. Keeping your eyes open. My dad always called that paying the high cost of living.

  --  What Happened and What's Going On [5.09]
%
Martin Hallucination: I tried to tell you. I tried to tell you, man. It was gonna be you. You're the kind of guy who saves babies. You think Gareth would have been able to follow you guys if you'd have just put a bullet in my brain? Cut me up like your sister did? Oh, whoa, whoa. Don't get up. If I hadn't told them that you were there, maybe Gareth wouldn't have gone after you. Maybe they wouldn't be dead. Maybe Bob wouldn't be dead. Maybe him being alive, maybe something about that would have changed things with Beth. Domino shit. Maybe not. Maybe you wouldn't be bit right now.
Bob Stookey Hallucination: Man, that is bullshit. I got bit at the food bank. It went the way it had to, the way it was always going to. Just like this.

  --  What Happened and What's Going On [5.09]
%
The Governor Hallucination: You told me you'd earn your keep. You had no idea what you were talking about, did you? Did you?! Your eyes were open, but you didn't want to see. Even though I made you see it. I showed you. But did you adapt? Did you change? No. That you would sit there in front of a woman who killed someone you loved and you would forgive her. That's all there is. This is all there is. This is it.
Tyreese Williams: I didn't know who I was talking to. I said I would do what I had to to earn my keep, but I didn't know you. But I know-- I know who I am. I know what happened and what's going on. I know. You didn't show me shit. You, you're dead. Everything that you were is dead. And it's-- it's not over. I forgave her because it's not over. It's not over. It's-- it's not over. I didn't turn away. I kept listening to the news so I could do what I could to help! I'm not giving up. You hear me? I'm not giving up! People like me-- people like me, they can live. Ain't nobody got to die today.

  --  What Happened and What's Going On [5.09]
%
Gabriel Stokes: If you ever want to talk about your father or about Beth -
Maggie Greene: Please, stop.
Gabriel Stokes: Whenever you're ready, I'm here.
Maggie Greene: You never even met them.
Gabriel Stokes: I know you're in pain.
Maggie Greene: You don't know shit. You had a job. You were there to save your flock, right? But you didn't. You hid. Don't act like that didn't happen.

  --  Them [5.10]
%
Abraham Ford: Plan just got dicked!

  --  Them [5.10]
%
Glenn Rhee: Hey, we can make it together. But we can only make it together.

  --  Them [5.10]
%
Rick Grimes: When I was a kid I asked my grandpa once if he ever killed any Germans in the war. He wouldn't answer. He said that was grown-up stuff, so so I asked if the Germans ever tried to kill him. But he got real quiet. He said he was dead the minute he stepped into enemy territory. Every day he woke up and told himself, "Rest in peace. Now get up and go to war." And then after a few years of pretending he was dead he made it out alive. That's the trick of it, I think. We do what we need to do and then we get to live. But no matter what we find in DC, I know we'll be okay. Because this is how we survive. We tell ourselves that we are the walking dead.
Daryl Dixon: We ain't them. We're not them.

  --  Them [5.10]
%
Michonne: So if we see someone we just shoot them?
Maggie Greene: That's a good question.
Michonne: What if they're someone like us? What if Aaron is telling the truth? What if they're someone who has nothing to do with this?
Glenn Rhee: We're five people walking with guns. No one's coming up to say hello.
Michonne: But that's exactly what happened.
Glenn Rhee: If it's someone like us, we should be afraid of them.

  --  The Distance [5.11]
%
Michonne: How many walkers have you killed?
Aaron: I'm sorry, what?
Michonne: How many?
Aaron: I don't know, a lot.
Michonne: How many people?
Aaron: Two.
Michonne: Why?
Aaron: 'Cause they tried to kill me.

  --  The Distance [5.11]
%
Rick Grimes: You should keep your gates closed.
Deanna Monroe: Why?
Rick Grimes: Because it's all about survival now. At any cost. People out there are always looking for an angle. Looking to play on your weakness. They measure you by what they can take from you. By how they can use you to live. So bringing people into a place like this now--
Deanna Monroe: Are you telling me not to bring your people in? Are you already looking after this place? Aaron says I can trust you.
Rick Grimes: Aaron doesn't know me. I've killed people. I don't even know how many by now. But I know why they're all dead. They're dead so my family, all those people out there, can be alive. So I could be alive for them.
Deanna Monroe: Sounds like I'd want to be part of your family.

  --  Remember [5.12]
%
Carol Peletier: I'm gonna wash that vest. We need to keep up appearances, even you.
Daryl Dixon: Hey, I ain't starting now.
Carol Peletier: I'm gonna hose you down in your sleep.
Daryl Dixon: You look ridiculous.

  --  Remember [5.12]
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Carl Grimes: I like it here. I like the people. But... they're weak, and I don't want us to get weak too.

  --  Remember [5.12]
%
Aiden Monroe: You three need new gigs. You're not ready for runs yet.
Glenn Rhee: Yeah, pretty sure you got that backwards.

  --  Remember [5.12]
%
Rick Grimes: We won't get weak. That's not in us anymore. We'll make it work. And if they can't make it then we'll just take this place.

  --  Remember [5.12]
%
Daryl Dixon: [to Buttons the horse] Yeah, you used to be somebody's, huh? Now you're just yours.

  --  Forget [5.13]
%
Aaron: I know you're feeling like an outsider. It's not your fault, you know. Eric and I, we're still looked at as outsiders in a lot of ways. We've heard our fair share of well-meaning, but hilariously offensive things from some otherwise really nice men and women. People are people. The more afraid they get, the more stupid they get. Fear shrinks the brain. They're scared of you and me for different reasons. They're less scared of me because they know me. It's less and less every day. So let them get to know you. You should go to Deanna's party tonight.
Daryl Dixon: I got nothing to prove. I met a lot of bad people out here doing a lot of bad shit. They weren't afraid of nothing.
Aaron: Yeah, they were.

  --  Forget [5.13]
%
Jessie Anderson: You know, everyone's been through it somehow. Everyone.
Rick Grimes: And a lot of things disappeared.
Jessie Anderson: But a lot of bullshit went with it. They're all from totally different backgrounds, different places. They never would have even met. And now they're part of each other's lives. They are each other's lives. I'm just saying, we all lost things, but we got something back. It isn't enough, but it's something.

  --  Forget [5.13]
%
Carol Peletier: You can never tell anyone, especially your mom. Because if you do one morning you'll wake up and you won't be in your bed.
Sam Anderson: Where will I be?
Carol Peletier: You'll be outside the walls far, far away tied to a tree. And you'll scream and scream because you'll be so afraid. No one will come to help because no one will hear you. Well, something will hear you. The monsters will come. The ones out there. And you won't be able to run away when they come for you. And they will tear you apart and eat you up all while you're still alive. All while you can still feel it. And then afterwards, no one will ever know what happened to you. Or you can promise not to ever tell anyone what you saw here and then nothing will happen. And you'll get cookies. Lots of cookies.

  --  Forget [5.13]
%
Reg Monroe: How is it that you called this extremely early morning meeting, yet I'm the one bringing breakfast?
Noah: 'Cause you're a good guy.
Reg Monroe: The evidence seems to go in that direction.

  --  Spend [5.14]
%
Rick Grimes: You ever heard about the broken window theory? Boils down to this-- you keep the windows intact, you keep society intact.

  --  Spend [5.14]
%
Eugene Porter: So you're aware, I'm on record as stating that I should not be here. You well know that I'm not combat ready or even for that matter combat inclined.

  --  Spend [5.14]
%
Eugene Porter: I got you all to DC, which, in this man's opinion, is damn near nirvana by current standards.
Tara Chambler: Except you didn't get us here. We got you here.
Eugene Porter: But were it not for me and my mention of this city's potential for home and hearth, not a one of you would have had the vision to come here, let alone the cojones to travail such a fraught and punishing pilgrimage. And that, sister, is a fact. That's as cold and hard as they come.
Tara Chambler: God, you're really that much of a coward?
Eugene Porter: Yes, I am. I told you I was.

  --  Spend [5.14]
%
Glenn Rhee: Nicholas, don't talk, just listen. Those four people you lost on that run, that's on you. And Noah, that's on you, too. Those five lives, you have to carry that. People like you are supposed to be dead, but these walls went up just in time, so you're not. You don't go outside those walls anymore. Not by yourself, not with anyone else. And that's how you're gonna survive.
Nicholas: Who the hell do you think you are?
Glenn Rhee: I'm someone who knows who you are. I know what you did. And it's not gonna happen again.

  --  Try [5.15]
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Enid: It's their world. We're just living in it.

  --  Try [5.15]
%
Rick Grimes: You still don't get it. None of you do! We know what needs to be done and we do it. We're the ones who live. You, you just sit and plan and hesitate. You pretend like you know when you don't. You wish things weren't what they are. Well, you want to live? You want this place to stay standing? Your way of doing things is done. Things don't get better because you-- you want them to. Starting right now, we have to live in the real world. We have to control who lives here.
Deanna Monroe: That's never been more clear to me than it is right now.
Rick Grimes: Me? Me? You-- You mean-- you mean me? Your way is gonna destroy this place. It's gonna get people killed. It's already gotten people killed. And I'm not gonna stand by and just let it happen. If you don't fight, you die. I'm not gonna stand by--
[Michonne knocks Rick out]

  --  Try [5.15]
%
Morgan Jones: What's the W for?
W Man: You know, the first settlers here, they put bounties on wolves' heads. Brought the natives into it. Made them hunt them. Didn't take them too long to kill them all. They're back now. Thoughts?
Morgan Jones: Everything gets a return.

  --  Conquer [5.16]
%
Reg Monroe: The cavemen, they were all nomads. And they all died. Then we evolved into this and we lived. Civilization starts when we stop running. When we live together. When we stop sending people away from the world and from each other.

  --  Conquer [5.16]
%
Rick Grimes: I don't want to lie anymore.
Carol Peletier: You said you don't want to take this place. And you don't want to lie? Oh, sunshine, you don't get both.

  --  Conquer [5.16]
%
Carol Peletier: [to Pete] I could kill you right now. I could. I will. And then who would believe I did it because I didn't like you? No one. They'd believe you tried to hurt me. Definitely believe that. Come at me. No? Yeah? No. The way this has played out, you have a chance. You're here. Your wife's there. You're a small, weak nothing. And with the world how it is, you're even weaker. Play your cards right, maybe you don't have to die. And I want my dish back clean when you're done.

  --  Conquer [5.16]
%
Daryl Dixon: Why?
Morgan Jones: Why? Because all life is precious, Daryl.

  --  Conquer [5.16]
%
Rick Grimes: I know this sounds insane, but this is an insane world. We have to come for them before they come for us, it's that simple.

  --  First Time Again [6.01]
%
Eugene Porter: [to Heath] I fully respect the hair game.

  --  First Time Again [6.01]
%
Heath: This was supposed to be a dress rehearsal.
Glenn Rhee: I'm supposed to be delivering pizzas, man.

  --  First Time Again [6.01]
%
Maggie Greene: [to Tara] Glenn saves people. Even people like that. I couldn't accept it either. But then I thought about you. How we were on different sides of that fence on the worst day of my life. And now you're one of the most important people in the world to me. Things can get better. We can make them better.

  --  First Time Again [6.01]
%
Abraham Ford: [to Sasha] Well, look at me. You didn't see Reg the night he got it. That was a mess. And Pete. His face just blowing up like Pompeii right when we were cheek to cheek. I still think I got some of his brains in my ear.

  --  First Time Again [6.01]
%
Morgan Jones: You with that man Carter, in the armory-- that's you. You're still the same man I met in King County. The one that came back and told me it wasn't over. That was you. Same you that's right in front of me right now.
Rick Grimes: I wanted to kill him. So it would be easier. So I wouldn't have to worry about how he could screw up or what stupid thing he'd do next because that's who he is. Just somebody who shouldn't be alive now. I wanted to kill him. But all that hit me and I realized I didn't have to do it. He doesn't get it. Somebody like that they're gonna die no matter what.

  --  First Time Again [6.01]
%
Carol Peletier: [to Sam] Your dad used to hit you and then he got himself killed. It happened. Now it's done. You live with it or it eats you up. Go home.

  --  JSS [6.02]
%
Denise Cloyd: Listen, I'm a little nervous here. I'm a psychiatrist. I went to med school. I was even gonna be a surgeon, but after the panic attacks, I got really interested in psychology. And I think I'm really trying to lower expectations here.

  --  JSS [6.02]
%
Morgan Jones: My people have guns. Yours don't. They may be aiming rifles at you right now. Eyes at the scopes. Fingers on the trigger. Boom. It's gonna happen any second now unless you get the hell out of here and you don't ever come back. You keep choosing this life, you will die.
Wolf: We didn't choose.

  --  JSS [6.02]
%
Eugene Porter[to Denise]:  You're a doctor.
Denise Cloyd: Are you?

  --  JSS [6.02]
%
Rick Grimes: Glenn, Michonne. If something's in front of you, you kill it. No hiding, no waiting. You keep going.
Glenn Rhee: I'm going with you, you can't do this on your own.
Rick Grimes: Glenn, I can do this.
Michonne: [to Glenn] You need to help me. We've got to get these people back.
Rick Grimes: Yeah. Thing is, they aren't all gonna make it.
Michonne: Rick.
Rick Grimes: You try to save them, you try, but if they can't keep up, you keep going. You have to. You make sure you get back.

  --  Thank You [6.03]
%
Michonne: We're gonna catch up to a lot of things. And we're gonna end them.

  --  Thank You [6.03]
%
Eastman: What's your name.
Morgan Jones: Kill me.
Eastman: Well, that's a stupid name. You should change it.

  --  Here's Not Here [6.04]
%
[Eastman tells Morgan how he got his lucky rabbit's foot]
Eastman: One night, my five-year-old daughter found me crying in the garage after about eight beers. I told her I wasn't feeling too good. She gave me this. She had won it at a carnival in school that day. She said it'd make me feel lucky and I'd feel better. The next morning I found a flyer to Aikido. Damn thing worked.
Morgan Jones: Your wife and your daughter... they're dead.
Eastman: It was Aikido. It'll help. And you obviously need help if we're gonna make this trip. Can't just be me and you to the end. You're a shit conversationalist, and I can't make this trip by myself.
Morgan Jones: A trip where?
Eastman: I have no idea.

  --  Here's Not Here [6.04]
%
Deanna Monroe: I want to live. I want this place to stay standing.
Rick Grimes: You need to lead them.
Deanna Monroe: They don't need me. What they need is you.

  --  Now [6.05]
%
Rick Grimes: Look, I know you're scared. You haven't seen anything like this. You haven't been through anything like this. But we're safe for now. The panel the truck hit seems intact. We reinforced it just in case. Either way, the wall's gonna hold together. Can you?

  --  Now [6.05]
%
Jessie Anderson: I used to not want to see... the way things are. It's not that I couldn't, it's that I - I didn't want to. But this is what life looks like now. We have to see it. We have to fight it. If we don't fight, we die.

  --  Now [6.05]
%
[Daryl asks Dwight the three questions]
Daryl Dixon: How many walkers you killed? Just answer the question.
Dwight: A lot. A couple dozen at least.
Daryl Dixon: How many people you killed?
Dwight: None.
Daryl Dixon: Why?
Dwight: Why haven't I killed anybody? Because if I did, there'd be no going back. There'd be no going back to how things were.
Daryl Dixon: I'm from a place where people are still like they were... more or less, better or worse.

  --  Always Accountable [6.06]
%
[Abraham returns to Sasha with the rocket launcher]
Sasha Williams: Where did you get that?
Sgt. Abraham Ford: It is the fruit of some off-the-chart stupidity. Some Grade-A, butt steak idiocy.
Sasha Williams: Self-awareness is a beautiful thing.
Sgt. Abraham Ford: Yes, it is.

  --  Always Accountable [6.06]
%
Sherry: People will trade anything for safety, for knowing that they're safe.
Dwight: Everything. So they got nothing left except... existing.
Daryl Dixon: Hey, nobody's safe anymore. Can't promise people that anyhow.
Dwight: You could promise the people who want to hear it.

  --  Always Accountable [6.06]
%
Dr. Eugene Porter: I'm a weapons novice, and there are people in my immediate proximity with open-toed shoes.
Rosita Espinosa: That's right. So get a grip. What are you so scared of?
Dr. Eugene Porter: That would be dying.
Rosita Espinosa: Dying is simple. It all just stops. You're dead. The people around you dying, that's the hard part. Okay? 'Cause you keep living knowing that they're gone and you're still here. What you should be scared of is living knowing that you didn't do everything you could to keep them here. Too upset to keep going? Are the noises scaring you or can I get back to my lesson?

  --  Heads Up [6.07]
%
Glenn Rhee: You honor the dead by going on. Even when you're scared. You live because they don't get to.

  --  Heads Up [6.07]
%
Glenn Rhee: Who did you stay with at home?
Enid: It's not my home. I lived in Olivia's place. But I was on my own. Orphaned by walkers.
Glenn Rhee: Me, too. Probably.
Enid: It's just what happens.
Glenn Rhee: I get that you're scared.
Enid: I'm not scared.
Glenn Rhee: Yeah, you are. You don't want to lose anything again, so you give up and you say, 'That's just what happens.'

  --  Heads Up [6.07]
%
Morgan Jones: You don't trust anybody, do you?
Carol Peletier: Some more than others. [chuckles] But you're dead last.
Morgan Jones: [chuckles] Well, at least we're being honest.
Carol Peletier: [Morgan walks off] I never trusted you, but I never thought you were lying.

  --  Start to Finish [6.08]
%
[Carl tells Ron the truth about who his dad was]
Carl Grimes: Look, man... I get it. My dad killed your dad, but you need to know something. Your dad was an asshole.

  --  Start to Finish [6.08]
%
Glenn Rhee: Listen, people are still alive in there.
Enid: This is how it happens. And it always happens, Glenn.
Glenn Rhee: We're still here. Our friends are over there, people who care about you. My pregnant wife. You just want to run away, be afraid, forget about this? Just go. But that's how you lose people. Even after they're gone.

  --  Start to Finish [6.08]
%
Bud: If you have to eat shit, best not to nibble. Bite, chew, swallow, repeat. It goes quicker.

  --  No Way Out [6.09]
%
Glenn Rhee: People you love, they made you who you are. They're still part of you. If you stop being you, that last bit of them that's still around inside, who you are, it's gone.

  --  No Way Out [6.09]
%
Gabriel Stokes: We've been praying together. Praying that God will save our town. Well, our prayers have been answered. God will save Alexandria because God has given us the courage to save it ourselves.

  --  No Way Out [6.09]
%
Rick Grimes: I was wrong. I thought after living behind these walls for so long that maybe they couldn't learn. But today I saw what they could do, what we could do, if we work together. We'll rebuild the walls. We'll expand the walls. There will be more. There's gotta be more. Everything Deanna was talking about is possible. It's all possible. I see that now. When I was out there with them when it was over when I knew we had this place again I had this feeling. It took me a while to remember what it was because I haven't felt it since before I woke up in that hospital bed. I want to show you the new world, Carl. I want to make it a reality for you. Please, Carl let me show you. Plea-- please, son, don't die.

  --  No Way Out [6.09]
%
Abraham Ford: Nibble on that.

  --  No Way Out [6.09]
%
[Denise adds a soda pop brand on the list of items for Daryl to search when he's out on his run]
Daryl Dixon: You like it, right?
Dr. Denise Cloyd: No, I don't drink pop.
Daryl Dixon: What the hell's 'pop'?
Dr. Denise Cloyd: Oh, I'm originally from Ohio.

  --  The Next World [6.10]
%
Rick Grimes: Today's the day.
Daryl Dixon: Uh-huh.
Rick Grimes: We're gonna find food, maybe some people. Law of averages has gotta catch up. 

  --  The Next World [6.10]
%
Rick Grimes: It is pretty stupid of us to go out there, isn't it?
Daryl Dixon: Yep. Do it again tomorrow?
Rick Grimes: Yep.

  --  The Next World [6.10]
%
Enid: Why are we coming out here?
Carl Grimes: 'Cause we're kids. It's what they do.
Enid: We're not kids.

  --  The Next World [6.10]
%
Carl Grimes: [to Judith] See that bright one? Yeah, that's the North Star. It's at the end of the Little Dipper. Yeah. If you get lost at night, you just find that star.

  --  The Next World [6.10]
%
Brandon Karsh: [to Ze] When you were, uh, pouring the Bisquick, were you trying to make pancakes?

  --  Knots Untie [6.11]
%
Brandon Karsh: Good gracious, Ignatius.

  --  Knots Untie [6.11]
%
'Maddy Lewis: We heard the name Negan. A while back, Daryl and Abraham had a run-in with his men. Who is he?
Paul 'Jesus' Rovia: Negan's the head of a group of people he calls the Saviors. As soon as the walls were built, the Saviors showed up. They met with Gregory on behalf of their boss. They made a lot of demands, even more threats. And he killed one of us-- Rory. He was 16 years old. They beat him to death right in front of us. Said we needed to understand, right off the bat. Gregory's not exactly good at confrontation. He's not the leader I would've chosen, but he helped make this place what it is, and the people like him.
Amy Carroll: He made the deal.
Paul 'Jesus' Rovia: Half of everything. Our supplies, our crops, our livestock, it goes to the Saviors.
Ze Dominguez: And what do you get in return?
Paul 'Jesus' Rovia: They don't attack this place. They don't kill us.
Sean Douglas: Why not just kill them?
Paul 'Jesus' Rovia: Most of the people here don't even know how to fight, even if we had ammo.
Sean Douglas: Well, how many people does Negan have?
Paul 'Jesus' Rovia: We don't know. We've seen groups as big as 20.
Sean Douglas: Now, hold up. So, they show up, they kill a kid, and you give them half of everything? These dicks just got a good story. The bogeyman, he ain't shit.
Paul 'Jesus' Rovia: Well, how do you know?
Brandon Karsh: A month ago, we took his guys out PDQ. Left them in pieces and puddles.
Sean Douglas: You know, we'll do it. If we go get your man back, kill Negan, take out his boys, will you hook us up? We want food, medicine, and one of them cows.
Maddy Lewis: Confrontation's never been something we've had trouble with.

  --  Knots Untie [6.11]
%
Amy Carroll: You give us supplies, we'll save Craig and take care of Negan and the Saviors, permanently.
Gregory: I'm sorry, I find this whole conversation pretty funny. I mean, you balked when I proposed that your people work for our supplies, but now isn't that exactly what's happening here? See, I had leverage and I used it. See? It wasn't personal.
Amy Carroll: Yes. We need food. You have it. We're willing to work for it.
Gregory: Then I'll get supplies for your people.
Amy Carroll: Good.
Gregory: I'll talk to Jesus and he'll make the arrangements. See, this was fun. Exciting.
Amy Carroll: Half.
Gregory: Excuse me?
Amy Carroll: Half of what you have. I saw what happened out there. Negan's expecting more supplies from this place. And more and more. And if it keeps going like that, pretty soon you won't have anything left. What happens then? Without ammo, without fighters you'd be a dead man. So half of everything you have right now or the deal's off. You see? I have leverage.

  --  Knots Untie [6.11]
%
Rosita Espinosa: After everything we've been through, you are not walking out that door unless you can tell me why! Tell me! Tell me why!
Sgt. Abraham Ford: When I first met you, I thought you were the last woman on Earth. You're not.

  --  Not Tomorrow Yet [6.12]
%
Morgan Jones: You're sure we can do it? We can beat them?
Rick Grimes: What this group has done, what we've learned, what we've become, all of us - Yes, I'm sure.
Morgan Jones: Then all we have to do is just tell them that.
Rick Grimes: Well, they don't compromise.
Morgan Jones: This isn't a compromise. It's a choice you give them. It's a way out, for them and for us.

  --  Not Tomorrow Yet [6.12]
%
Tobin: You can do things that - That just terrify me.
Carol Peletier: How? How do you think I do those things?
Tobin: You're a mom.
Carol Peletier: I was.
Tobin: You are. It's not the cookies or the smiles. It's... it's the hard stuff. The scary stuff. It's how you can do it. It's strength. You're a mom to most of the people here.
Carol Peletier: To you, too.
Tobin: No. You're something else to me.

  --  Not Tomorrow Yet [6.12]
%
Paula: You're some kind of stupid, getting knocked up at a time like this. You think that's funny?
Maggie Greene: When was it ever smart to get knocked up? Women used to just die in childbirth. And they always thought the world was gonna end. Living through it, why would you just give up?
Paula: But are you gonna live through it? Anyway, that's cute. Babies are the point. Children are our future. Making bite-size snacks for the dead. The point is to stay standing.
Maggie Greene: No. Walkers do that. I'm choosing something.

  --  The Same Boat [6.13]
%
Molly: Y'all are worse than a bunch of evangelical second graders.

  --  The Same Boat [6.13]
%
Paula: I was a secretary before. I fetched coffee for my boss and made him feel good about himself. I spent most of my days reading stupid inspirational e-mails to try and feel good about myself. There was this one that kept going around. A young woman was having a hard time and told her mom she wanted to give up, so her mom went to the kitchen and started boiling three pots of water. She put a carrot in one, an egg in another, and ground coffee beans in the last one. After they had boiled a while, her mom said, "Look, all three things went through the same boiling water. The carrot went in strong and came out soft. The egg was fragile and came out hard. But the coffee beans changed the water itself." You're supposed to want to be the coffee beans. See, to me, coffee was just a thing that my boss would drink up. No matter how many times I refilled his damn cup, it was just never enough. I was at work when the Army took over DC. We weren't allowed to leave. They had to evacuate all the important people first-- members of Congress, government employees. So I was stuck with my boss. Not my family-- my husband, my four girls. My boss was weak and stupid and he was going to die and he was going to take me down, too. He was the first person I killed so that I could live. I stopped counting when I hit double digits. That's right around the time I stopped feeling bad about it. I am not like you. I'm still me, but better. I lost everything and it made me stronger.
Carol Peletier: You sure about that?
Paula: I'm alive.
Carol Peletier: With those people, those killers.
Paula: Your people are killers, Carol. That makes you a killer.
Carol Peletier: You-- you're the one.
Paula: Excuse me?
Carol Peletier: You're the one who's afraid to die. And you're going to. You will die. It's what's gonna happen if you don't work this out.
Paula: Are you going to kill me?
Carol Peletier: I hope not.

  --  The Same Boat [6.13]
%
[Eugene and Abraham arrive at the machine shop]
Sgt. Abraham Ford: You about ready to spill the pintos on what the hell it is we're doing here? Eugene.
Dr. Eugene Porter: [Eugene looks to Abraham] We're gonna manufacture bullets here. I've been chewing the cud on this for a few days now. The Hilltop's dry, our supply's finite. So not only are bullets vital for defense, but per the law of supply and demand, a full cartridge is now the coin of the land.
Sgt. Abraham Ford: Making bullets from scratch.
Dr. Eugene Porter: Spent casings, but the innards are all us. And by us, I mean me.
Sgt. Abraham Ford: And you think you can do that... here? With just this?
Dr. Eugene Porter: Well, the digs well require a thorough scrubbing. We'll have to scare up a hella ton of lead, but, yes. I most definitely almost certainly think I can do that here.
Sgt. Abraham Ford: That, my friend, is some damn fine genuine outside-the-box thinking.

  --  Twice as Far [6.14]
%
Dr. Eugene Porter: It's simple, really. As with any RPG, tabletop, electronic, or otherwise, the key to survival is to allow oneself to be shaped by the assigned environment. In doing so, a broad range of capabilities are acquired, allowing one to flip the script and use said capabilities to shape said environment to maximum longevity. I'm saying I'm in the process of said step two. I've changed, adapted, I'm a survivor.
Sgt. Abraham Ford: Keep telling yourself that.

  --  Twice as Far [6.14]
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Daryl Dixon: I should've killed you.
Dwight: Yeah, you probably should've. Well, here we are. Kind of begs the question, right? Who brought this on who? I mean, I get that you'll have to just take my word for this, but... she wasn't even the one I was aiming for.
Dwight: [about Daryl's bow gun] Like I said, kicks like a bitch.

  --  Twice as Far [6.14]
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Rick Grimes: [after seeing the dead Saviors that Carol killed] I'm proud of her.
Morgan Jones: How's that?
Rick Grimes: She took four of them down. That woman, she's a freak of nature.
Morgan Jones: She left because she can't anymore. That's what her letter said.
Rick Grimes: She could because she had to. Sometimes you have to.

  --  East [6.15]
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Rick Grimes: When they come for us, we'll end it, the whole thing. This won't be like before. We're putting everything in place and these people know what to do now. The world's ours, and we know how to take it. Everything we need is right in here inside these walls. We're not losing any of it again. I'm not.
Michonne: No, you're not. I'm not.

  --  East [6.15]
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Morgan Jones: What I believe - I'm not right. There is no right. There's just the wrong that doesn't pull you down.
Rick Grimes: It hasn't pulled me down.
Morgan Jones: I think it will. 'Cause I know you.

  --  East [6.15]
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Rick Grimes: You wanna make today your last day on Earth?
Simon: No. But that is a good thing to bring up. Think about it. What if it's the last day on Earth for you? Or someone you love? What if that's true? Maybe you should be extra nice to those people in that RV. 'Cause you never know... [snaps fingers] Just like that. Be kind to each other. Like you said. Like it was your last day on Earth.
Rick Grimes: You do the same.

  --  Last Day on Earth [6.16]
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Negan: We pissin' our pants yet? Boy, do I have a feeling we're getting close. Yep. Gonna be pee-pee pants city here real soon. Which one of you pricks is the leader?
Simon: [points to Rick] It's this one. He's the guy.
Negan: [to Rick] Hi. You're Rick, right? I'm Negan. And I do not appreciate you killing my men. Also, when I sent my people to kill your people for killing my people, you killed more of my people. Not cool. Not cool! You have no idea how not cool that shit is, but I think you're gonna be up to speed shortly. Yeah. You are so gonna regret crossing me in a few minutes. [smiles] Yes you are. You see, Rick, whatever you do, no matter what, you don't mess with the New World Order, and the New World Order is this, and it's really very simple so even if you're stupid which you very may well be, you can understand it. You ready? Here it goes, pay attention. [aims his baseball bat at Rick] Give me your shit... or I will kill you. Today was career day. We invested a lot so you could know who I am and what I can do. You work for me now. You have shit, you give it to me; that's your job. Now, I know that is a mighty, big, nasty pill to swallow, but swallow it you most certainly will! You ruled the roost. You built something. You thought you were safe. I get it. But the word is out. You are not safe. Not even close. In fact, you are pegged. More pegged if you don't do what I want and what I want is half your shit. And if that's too much, you can make, find, or steal more and it'll even out sooner or later. This is your way of life now. The more you fight back, the harder it will be. So, if someone knocks on your door... heh, you let us in. We own that door. You try to stop us and we will knock it down. You understand? [holds his ear up to Rick] What? No answer? You don't really think that you were gonna get through this without being punished, now did you? I don't wanna kill you people. Just wanna make that clear from the get go. I want you to work for me. You can't do that if you're dead, now can you? I'm not growing a garden. But you killed my people, a whole damn lot of them; more than I'm comfortable with. And for that, for that you're gonna pay. So now... I'm gonna beat the holy hell outta one of you. [shows Rick his baseball bat] This, this is Lucille. And she is awesome. All this, all this is so we can pick out which one of you gets the honor. [looks at Abraham] Huh. God, I gotta shave this shit. [walks over to Carl] You got one of our guns. Yeah, you got a lot of our guns. Shit kid. Lighten up. Least cry a little. [chuckles; walks over to Maggie] Jesus! You look shitty! Let's just put you out of your misery right now.
Glenn Rhee: [attemps to stop Negan] No! No!
[Glenn is violently restrained and held at gunpoint by Dwight]
Maggie Greene: Stop it!
Negan: Nope. Nope, get him back in line.
Glenn Rhee: [dragged back in line] No! No... Don't... don't...
Negan: [smiles] All right, listen. Don't any of ya do that again. I will shut that shit down, no exceptions. First one's free. It's an emotional moment. [smiles to Glenn] I get it. [to Rick] Sucks, don't it? Moment you realize you don't know shit. [looks at Carl] This is your kid, right? [chuckles] This is definitely your kid.
Rick Grimes: So stop this!
Negan: Hey! Do not make me kill the little future serial killer; don't make it easy on me. I gotta pick somebody. Everybody's at the table waiting for me to order. [walks alone the line-up; whistling] I simply cannot decide. I got an idea. [points Lucille at each victim] Eeny. Meeny. Miny. Moe. Catch. A tiger. By. His toe. If. He hollers. Let him go. My mother. Told me. To pick. The Very. Best. One. And you. Are... [makes his choice] It. Anybody moves, anybody says anything, cut the boy's other eye out and feed it to his father and then we'll start. You can breathe, you can blink, you can cry. Hell, you're all gonna be doing that. [violently strikes his victim over the head] Woah! Look at that! Taking it like a champ. [continues to beat his victim]

  --  Last Day on Earth [6.16]
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