The Strain Quotes

Vasiliy Fet: The Master used the bonds of human love as a conduit for the Strain. He tried to destroy us, but he never understood it: love. And in the end, it was love that saved us all and gave us the world, our world, back.

Vasiliy Fet: When the rats returned, I knew the city was gonna be OK.

The Master: My son. Now we can rule the world as father and son. Zach Goodweather: Dad, are you still in there? 'Cause if you are... I love you.

The Master: I brought you into this world, Invictus. Now you will leave it, my ill-begotten son. What have you done? Quinlan: I... I've won.

Ephraim Goodweather: Good luck. Quinlan: May you see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rise from this abyss.

Vasiliy Fet: The professor had a way of inspiring you, even if he was telling you the worst thing you could ever hear.

Vasiliy Fet: Before I detonate the warhead, I'll probably say something clever and cool, like Bruce Willis would say, you know? Dutch Velders: Sure.

Dutch Velders: So, where are we going? Vasiliy Fet: This elevator is the subsurface entrance to New York City Water Tunnel Number 3. Ephraim Goodweather: Just when I thought I was never gonna get another New York City history lesson.

Dutch Velders: No nice way to say this, Gus, but don't get stung and lead the Master back to us. Augustin Elizalde: That's cold right there.

Marcus: That one has quite a pair of balls. Dutch Velders: Actually, he doesn't.

Quinlan: A good spy would tell the truth, or at least a portion of it, to gain our trust.

Augustin Elizalde: No matter how hard you try, you can't escape what you're right in the middle of.

Quinlan: It's not about what we believe, it's about what we know.

Quinlan: The real impact of a life depends on will. The determination to keep on fighting, no matter the cost.

Abraham Setrakian: You are the hunger. The strain that feeds on us since time immemorial. But make no mistake, you're still a parasite. And we will flush you out and burn you. It will not be me. It will not be now, but it will happen. No matter how long it takes, in another face, in other eyes, you will see me as you die.

Ephraim Goodweather: I'm just doing the only thing I know to do. If we can find Setrakian, if we can kill the Master, then all of this ends: the depravation, the feed lots, the blood harvesting, all of it. Alex Green: And this Setrakian will have a plan? Ephraim Goodweather: Setrakian always has a plan. Whether it'll work is another question.