Quantum Leap
Wednesdays 10:00 PM on NBCQuantum Leap Season 2 Episode 4: "The Lonely Hearts Club" Quotes
Every day, when you wake up, there is an adventure to be had. Some are fun. Some are scary. And some are flat-out stupid. But, no matter how you slice it, life is meant to be lived.
Neal Russell
This is a truly historic program. It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Short term, my job is to oversee an audit of the operation. I know, I know, but this is the government. You can’t change the world without some paperwork.
Tom
Tom: How goes the leap?
Addison: Neal Russell. I mean, can you believe that? I’m having a hard time not just staring at him.
Tom: You realize you said that out loud.
Addison: Yeah, well, teenage me would’ve shouted that from the rooftops, so that’s growth.
Neal: Can we at least agree that you can’t marry Michael? I mean, he’s a sidekick at best. He’s not a leading man!
Laura: And what did being a leading man get you? A life of loneliness.
I can deal with your savior complex. Some days, it’s even admirable. But I told you I wouldn’t do secrets anymore.
Rachel
Neal: I could spend hours telling you all the things I love about Laura but I loved them before and still I made decisions that destroyed what we had. It was like a part of me torn out. I lost my other half. Then you’re just drifting through life, lost. Does that make any sense?
Ben: More than you know.
Jenn: So our choices are we let the chip keep hemorrhaging code or we pull the chip and lose Ben forever?
Ian: Yeah, I am kind of hoping that we can come up with a better third option.
Ben: What I needed was for you to wait for me. I jumped through time and space to save you. And you couldn’t wait three years. I would’ve waited forever for you, Addison. I would’ve never stopped looking.
Addison: It is easy to say that you would wait when you are not the one who had to wait. When you are the one who left and not the one that got left behind.
Do not tell me how hard it has been for you because I waited. I grieved. And then I buried you along with the life that we were supposed to have together. A life that you left me in, alone.
Addison
We loved each other once, but that was years ago. And I am not that woman anymore. And you are not that man no matter how much you wish you could be. It’s time to let go. It’s time to move on. I can’t make your dream come true. You have to find a new dream.
Laura
Tom: First, Sam Beckett. Now, Ben Song. In both cases, our assumption was that something went wrong. And if we can fix it, one – or both – of them could come home.
Magic: That is the goal.
Tom: But what if the engine of Quantum Leap is sacrifice? What if sacrifice is the price we have to pay for change? For thirty years, we assumed the technology was broken. But what if it has to be a one-way trip?
Magic: But I don’t think that’ll stop people from leaping. I think some will go even if that’s the cost. There’s something deep down inside of us that strives to do better.
