Ruth: Your parents would be very proud.
LJ: Yeah, not so sure they would. I have callouses now.

Do you want to know who Layton is? He's a good guy. And I forgot what a good guy was. He is trying to give this train -- our daughter, our family -- a world that we can be proud to live in.

Roche

Oz: You were great today.
LJ: Yeah? Yeah! Yeah, I was like some working-class action hero.

Zarah: He's sabotaging his own engine?
Layton: Doesn't matter that he caused it, he is our only way out. We know it. So does he.

Can you do it, Layton? No, you're not an engineer. How can you expect to lead the train? You don't even understand how it works.

Wilford

Layton: Games upon games.
Wilford: There's only one conductor of the orchestra.

Roche: They're taking you to Big Alice. He promised you'll be well-treated.
Layton: I've survived that once.

This train just keeps trying to take us down. But it never has. You don't give up. You understand me? We don't give up.

Zarah

Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 8 Quotes

Well, the Eternal Engineer, he's always been a social engineer, hasn't he? He'd have to be. He rendered us all into his system. And even though his engine may be eternal, the rest of Snowpiercer? She still runs on meat. All one thousand thirty-four cars long.

Roche

Things fall apart, right? Or do they? Who can tell anymore what's true, what's a Wilford ruse? So we hang on too tight to what we do know. Crack ourselves into harder factions. We're not afraid of our Ag Sec failing or biosecurity anymore. We're lighting red lanterns for Wilford because we're afraid of each other. And me, I'm out here selling the only common ground left, that we're all human beings. You know, who need love and connection and space for hope. Or we kill each other. What is it about recent history that's so friggin' hard to remember?

Roche