Homeland
Sundays 9:00 PM on ShowtimeCarrie Mathison Quotes
You are telling me that someone I trust more than I've ever trusted anyone is trying to kill me, and I'm just supposed to accept that, no questions asked? Spend my life on the run, give up my daughter? Quinn, I have to know!
Carrie: How did you feel when you had to leave your kid?
Quinn: Not everyone's fit to be a parent.
Carrie: The point is that the meds have saved my life, literally, but something is lost, too.
Jonas: The elation.
Carrie: It's more than that. There's this window, when you've got all this crazy energy, but you're still lucid, you're still making sense and that's always when I did my best work.
Carrie: This is not me anymore! None of it.
Jonas: I don't know how you live with yourself.
Jonas: You want to go off your meds now to figure this out?
Carrie: No. I've already gone off them. Three days ago.
Saul: So you, what are you atoning for? Keeing American safe?
Carrie: I'm not atoning.
Saul: You turned your back on your entire life.
Carrie: I'm just trying to do good work.
Saul: Well you're not. You're being naive and stupid, something you never were before.
I always thought that being bipolar meant you couldn't be with people because they'd up and leave you sometime.
So you left your kids to go have more kids?
I don't think Frannie will remember him, but I'm takin' over dad, and I'll remember for her.
Carrie: She walked out on us. What kind of person does that?
Maggie: Well. You.
Saul: There comes a point at which you're no longer responsible.
Carrie: I'm not there yet.
Saul: I know.
Saul: I'm old. I've made a fool of my time.
Carrie: You haven't.
Saul: Completely. People are dead because of it.
