Harlee: I'm not going to pretend that former Agent Stahl didn't have an effect on me. More than I even knew or was willing to admit to myself, but not in the way that you're suggesting.
Panel Member: In what way then?
Harlee: In the path that I've chosen, the decisions I've made and the cop that I'm trying to be.

Panel member: Detective Santos, do you consider yourself more of a police officer or a criminal?
Harlee: Honestly, depends on the day.

Nava: Baby, you can't always be sprinting.
Harlee: When I stop my mind is too loud.

Wozniak: You can't stand where you're standing and pretend it's high ground.
Harlee: I'm not standing, Woz. Okay, I'm underwater, I can't breathe. I can't even reach the surface.
Wozniak: Then let me make the decisions until you can figure out which way is up.
Harlee: I need to be able to close my eyes and not see the things that I've done.

You want a world where there's no place for men like me, and so do I, but it doesn't exist.

Wozniak

I'm sorry, Loman. No, I'm sorry for choosing for you. For deciding what kind of cop you were going to be before you had the chance to. I thought I knew better. I didn't. I'm sorry for dragging you into this.

Harlee

I'm not going to deliver a man to his death for your revenge fantasy.

Harlee

Did they confiscate brain cells when they took your detective shields?

Wozniak

Harlee: They killed one of their own men, Woz.
Wozniak: So did we.

Harlee: You never proposed a theory.
Nava: Where Stahl is?
Harlee: Why he saved my life?
Nava: If I had to guess, so you'd be in your bathroom four months later still fixated on him.

When I was on the lobby floor, I knew it. I knew it for sure and there was no peace in it, no bright light. It was just fear. Fear and loneliness. Paramedics told me that I was dead for two minutes.

Wozniak

Julia: I always knew that it was going to come down to her or me.
Wozniak: She didn't make you do this!
Julia: And somehow I knew it would end up being her.
Wozniak: I would rather die than betray you. I trusted you. I loved you.
Julia: You still do. You still do. Even if you don't know why. This can stay between us. It's the best for everyone. For you, for Nate. We have all made mistakes. You know mine, I know yours, but we can all walk away from this.
Wozniak: It's tempting. It really is.
Julia: It's the best way to go, Matt.
Wozniak: It's the easy way.

Shades of Blue Quotes

Harlee: How much do you want to know?
Woz: How much do I need to know?

It happened so slowly I didn't realize and so quickly I never saw it coming.

Harlee