Quote of the Week - Week of November 17

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the SpoilerTV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

Arrow -
1. Oliver: "I'm your father, all right? It is my primary job in the world to protect you." Mia: "We don't need that. In the future, we're the ones that are saving the city." Oliver: "Well, this isn't the future! This is months after I was heartbroken right before I left... that I couldn't get you on the phone at your grandparents'. So I walked into your room to look at you one last time, and you looked back at me from your crib." Mia: "And because you made the choice to protect us, I had to spend my whole life alone. I didn't have a chance to get to know my brother, get to know you." Oliver: "I'm sorry that it worked out that way. And both of you can decide on your own how much... How much you want to hate me and how much blame you want to assign. But I made a promise to your mother to keep you safe. And there... there is no world, there is no universe, there's no past, present, or future where I break it." (Justyna)
2. Mia: "Every time I try and live up to my dad or to prove that I can do what it is you all do, I... I fail." Laurel: "Do you think your father is any better? If you're trying to live up to us, don't. We are just as flawed as anyone, especially me. All you can do is live up to yourself." (Justyna)

Bob Hearts Abishola -
1. Kofo: “Mr. Wheeler, Goodwin and I are spicy tuna on crispy rice. Don’t treat us like supermarket muffins.”
2. Dottie: “You love this, don’t you?” Abishola: “Love what?” Dottie: “Being mean to me.” Abishola: “It’s not mean to want you to get well, but yes, I enjoy it.”
3. Abishola: “Finish your food and I’ll be right back.” Dottie: “When I die, I’m gonna haunt you.” Abishola: “You are haunting me now.”

God Friended Me -
1. Miles: “Gideon, I know you made peace with the God Account but Audrey needs your help.” Gideon: “I haven’t made my peace. I thought I did but...uh, six months ago, I was watching the news, and I saw one of my friend suggestions. She’s a police officer and she had just saved someone’s life. When I first met her, she was thinking about leaving her job.
I helped her reconsider. It just reminded me that I used to make a difference.” Cara: “You miss it.” Gideon: “Ever since I’ve seen that report, I’ve felt lost and shut off, disconnected from my family. I don’t know how to move on.” Cara: “Well maybe helping Audrey can let you do that.”
2. Rakesh: “It’s just this whole birthday thing with Jaya. She doesn’t want me there. I keep telling myself it’s no big deal but that’s just a lie so I don’t freak out, you know?” Ali: “Of course, but just so you know this has nothing to do with you and Jaya. This is about you. Rakesh, you’re not built for this. You’re not built to pretend you don’t care when you do.”
3. Audrey: “You’re asking me to trust the God Account? Is that it?” Miles: “No. Audrey, I want you to trust me.”

The Good Place -
1. Michael: "You're sure you want to do this?" Chidi: "I finally make up my mind about one damn thing, and you try to talk me out of it? I'm sure. Can I ask you a question? Soulmates aren't real, are they?" Michael: "Chidi, in all honesty, I don't know, but I don't think so. I knew what you expected to find when you got here: answers. Also, if I recall from your file, a magic blackboard?" Chidi: "One that anticipates your lesson flow. That's the dream." Michael: "But mostly you wanted answers. The soulmate one, in particular. So, I used it to torture you, which, again, sorry. If soulmates do exist, they're not found. They're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship, like your parents. They didn't magically stay together because you proved they should." Chidi: "It wasn't my logic or my representation. It was the feeling they got watching me... this scared little kid telling them that he needed them." Michael: "It was also what you made them remember. You know, they loved each other. Sometimes people forget. You reminded them of what they already had. It convinced them to go to counseling." Chidi: "I never knew they went to counseling." Michael: "Yeah, kids are idiots. If they knew half the stuff their folks were up to, they'd lose their minds." Chidi: "Turns out life isn't a puzzle that can just be solved one time and... and it's done. You wake up every day and you solve it again." Michael: "Terribly inefficient." Chidi: "Wow, what a time to learn." (Justyna)
2. Chidi (in writing): "There is no ‘answer’. But Eleanor is the answer." (Justyna)

The Mandalorian -
1. The Mandalorian: "I gotta get one of those." (Justyna)
2. The Mandalorians: "This is the Way." (Justyna)

A Million Little Things -
1. Gary: "What about this family? My family. Because what you're doing is ripping us apart. Ever since Jon died, I am trying. I'm trying to keep us together. Man, I took you in. I agreed to be the guardian of your kid. And, D... I held you in that driveway. I told you he was gone. And I promised that I would be there and that we would still be a family. I have stood by you through everything, even when I didn't agree with you, because you are like a sister to me. I've spent so much time helping people through cancer and depression and divorce that... here's an interesting little fact. I lost my job! But I would do it all over again if it meant keeping us together. Because I can get another job. But I cannot get... another family!" (Justyna)
2. PJ: "These last few weeks, just spending time with you and Sophie and Delilah, I... I felt like I finally had a family. I don't... I don't have that anymore." Rome: "Okay, look, PJ, what does it mean to be family? Huh? You helped me bury my mom. You stood right next to me and Eddie and Gary and my brother because you are my family. Family's not just the people who had you. Family's the people who... who raise you, the people who love you. You don't think Mitch loves you?" PJ: "He lied to me my whole life!" Rome: "You heard your mom. This guy wanted to be your dad. He stepped up. And he... he might not show up in all the ways that you want him to. Hell, neither does my dad. But these two men are our fathers! And they are trying to love us the best way they can. And you know what? Sometimes... we can be a little hard to love." PJ: "No, it... it's just, for as far back as I can remember, there's been this... this weight, and I didn't know why. And then I found out a-about Jon and his depression, and I thought I finally figured out the reason. I thought I finally figured out why I feel this way. But I was wrong, and I don't, and I... God, no matter what I do, it's just... It's never gonna go away." Rome: "PJ, don't!" PJ: "What are you doing?!" Rome: "Same thing you're doing. A year ago, I was right where you are. Wasn't a rooftop. It was a mouthful of pills. Just like that script you read. Yes, man, there are some dark days! But there's also tomorrow. And I'm here for you! We are all here for you. I will not lose you. I will not lose you. I got you. I got you. I got you." (Justyna)

NCIS: LA -
1. Sam: “Deeks, you know you can’t go 20 days without complaining. It’s impossible.” Deeks: “It doesn’t matter. You know why? Because happiness is gratitude minus complaining. So less complaining, more gratitude, super happy.” Sam: “Yeah, I’ll buy that.”
2. Deeks: “Well, that’s interesting, Sam Hanna, because complaining, my friend, is a lot like bad breath. When it’s you, no, you don’t notice. When it’s somebody else, it stinks.”
3. Callen: “I’m very happy, and I’m going to be even more so when I finish this beer.” Kensi: “Seriously.” Callen: “I don’t complain. I’m...uh, I am grateful.” Deeks: “What are you...uh, what are you grateful for?” Callen: “I’m grateful that we took care of business today.” Sam: “Mmm hmm.” Callen: “I am...uh, grateful for...uh, luxurious accommodations upstairs.” Deeks: “Five stars.” Callen: “And I am grateful for my very talented co-workers.” Sam: “Never heard you say that.” Callen: “Well, I don’t have to say it ‘cause I think it.” Kensi: “Well, here is to the thoughts of G. Callen.”

Young Sheldon -
1. Mary: “There are more important things than money.” George: “That's cute. You should knit that on a pillow.” Mary: “Maybe I'll push that pillow over your face.” (Julia)
2. Mary: “I just want to keep my family safe.” Connie: “I know. But at some point, you got to let them go. And then one day, if you're lucky, they'll move across the street from you and absolutely ruin your life." (JUlia)

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."

Quote of the Week - Week of November 3

A weekly feature highlighting the best quotes on TV as picked by the SpoilerTV team. We'd love to hear your picks too so please sound off in the comments below.

Bob Hearts Abishola -
1. Dottie: “I won’t fight back. Smother me.” Abishola: “I’m not going to do that.” Dottie: “Oh, why?” Abishola: “You don’t pay me enough to commit murder.” Dottie: “Fine, get my purse.”
2. Bob: “Are you smoking pot?” Douglas: “The book says it helps with stroke.” Bob: “For the patient.”
3. Christina: “But Mom, you’ve got a bed that tilts up. You’ve got a bathroom with a nice high toilet seat and safety rails.” Bob: “A big screen TV with all the movie channels.” Douglas: “It’s like handicapped Barbie’s dream house.”

Bull -
1. Andrew: “The last thing I wanted to do was hurt another human being, cause anyone any pain. The only reason I was following him down that street...I just wanted to know why, why would he do that to the last weeks of her life but he wouldn’t tell me and now I know. He sold those weeks to a drug company for half a million dollars, but they weren’t his to sell. I mean, I really do regret that I pushed him and I really do regret that he fell, but I realize now regretting things doesn’t make you guilty of having caused them. And I didn’t cause this.”
2. Taylor: “Dr. Bull, aren’t you going to say anything?” Bull: “Yabba dabba doo.”

Emergence -
1. Jo: “Do you understand what I’m telling you?” Chris: “Yeah, artificial intelligence. I’m good.” Jo: “Well, you’re taking this very well.” Chris: “Yeah, yeah. Probably later I’ll freak out and question the universe and my place in it. That sort of thing.”
2. Benny: “We’re close. I think.” Jo: “Close to what?” Benny: “A very good spot to bury our bodies.”
3. Wilkis: “I gave up everything, my entire life, so that this wouldn’t happen.” Benny: “Well, I mean, not everything. I mean, let’s be honest. This place isn’t exactly a hovel, is it? This is a very lovely Batcave.” WIlkis: “You think I want to live like this? I tried to do the right thing.” Benny: “I think you want to do the right thing, Mr. Wilkis. It’s the follow through that’s lacking. You can’t even destroy your own creation properly.”

Evil:
1. Grace: “You need to avoid the color red for the next seven days.” Kristen: “It sounds more like a fortune cookie than God.” Grace: “Sometimes God sounds like a fortune cookie.” ~~~David, Kristen and Ben interview Grace, a possible prophet. Kristen does not think some of her answers have enough "thees" and "thous" to suit her. (Katherine)
2. Kristen: “Do you have any idea how weird it is for me to be involved in this? I mean, I go to Whole Foods during the day, and at night I say things like, ‘Would you have told the exorcist?’ It's like I've taken a left turn into the Middle Ages.” ~~~David and Kristen discuss philosophical issues they had with the previous night's exorcism. (Katherine)
3. Leland to Sheryl: “Greetings from the Adriatic Sea. Salamander brandy. A very rare delight. After one glass of this, you won't know up from down.” ~~~Setting the mood? (Katherine)

FBI -
1. OA: “I feel like a poor kid from Queens when I’m with her.” Maggie: “Look, I don’t care how amazing Mona is, she’s lucky to be dating you. Don’t ever forget that.”
2. Kristen: “It’s greed. You hated being around people talking about money and trades, commissions.” Stuart: “No, I didn’t mind that at all. I like money.”
3. Jubal: “Can you figure out who received that e-mail?” Ian: “If I can’t no one can.” Jubal: “I like your confidence.”

His Dark Materials -
1. Pan: "Lyra, the rules are simple." Lyra: "We know the rules, Pan." Pan: "You don't obey the rules." Lyra: "It doesn't mean I don't know them." (Lindsey)
2. Lyra: "Someone tries to kill you and you just destroy the evidence?" (Lindsey)
3. Roger: "She's better than you think she is! She's special!" Asriel: "Everyone's special!" (Lindsey)
4. Mrs. Coulter: "Well, my favorite moment is early morning, when the sky is high and the land seems endless. All that's in front of you is fresh, unbroken snow. You feel utterly alone. And you feel utterly magnificent." (Lindsey)

NCIS: LA -
1. Ricky: “They spotted the old bill.” Callen: “English?” Frankie: “We invented English. It’s our language. We can do with it what we like.”
2. Sam: “Enough of the rhyming, alright? I hate rhyming.” Frankie: “Suppression of our culture, that is. Wouldn’t hurt him to learn something new.”
3. Ricky: “Did they say where my girl was?” Deeks: “Well, obviously, we got interrupted.” Sam: “And they’re a little reluctant.” Ricky: “That’s okay. I can be very persuasive.”

NCIS:NOLA -
1. Gregorio: “I don’t even know what I’m thinking right now, but I know LaSalle’s a fighter and he’ll pull through.” Sebastian: “You can’t promise that.” Gregorio: “Of course I can’t promise that, but I have faith in him, the same way he’s always had faith in all of us.”
2. Sue-Ann: “This is it.” Chris: “You sure?” Sue-Ann: “That cabin was a horror movie in the daylight. I’m sure.”
3. Gregorio: “Sebastian, you okay?” Sebastian: “Uh, I’m...I’m covered in my...my friend’s blood.” Gregorio: “Yeah. We’ll get you cleaned up, get you some fresh clothes, all right?” Sebastian: “What I need to do...I need to get back to that cabin. You know, process the scene.” Gregorio: “We’ve got half a dozen law enforcement agencies scouring the area for suspects. Three different CSU teams tearing that cabin apart.” Sebastian: “None of them are me.” Gregorio: “Well, you’re not really you right now, baby. They’ll pass along whatever they find. Okay?

Prodigal Son -
1. Jessica: “So you’re saying that my children went to see their serial killer father in serial prison and it didn’t go well? I’m shocked. Truly.” Malcolm: “Please, enjoy your ‘I told you so,’ but even you could not have foreseen this.” Jessica: “This is what he does, Malcolm. He draws people in, gains their trust, makes them love him, and then when he has all the power…” Malcolm: “He ruins them.  Yeah, I know that story.” Jessica: “Yes, he may have ruined your childhood but he did not ruin you. You are made of tougher stuff.”
2. Martin: “Oh, I’m sorry. It’s as if you’ve all forgotten you’re locked in a room with a world-class surgeon.” Ainsley: “You can help him?” Martin: “Well, of course. It’s a relatively simple procedure. I just need a knife...uh, some sort of ET tube…” Malcolm: “You can’t be serious.” Ainsley: “Of course I am. He’s a doctor.” Malcolm: “And a serial killer. You want to give him a knife?”
3. Martin: “I know what you’re thinking. ‘What kind of rest stop would sell a switchblade to a kid?’ It was New Jersey.”

Schooled -
1. Lainey: “There’s gonna be all these huge expectations. That’s not my thing.” Wilma: “Expectations? As in having someone think so highly of you that they assume everything you do will be amazing.” Lainey: “Yes, it is messed up, man. When I was a student here, I meticulously arranged my life so that no one would expect anything of me.” CB: “That sounds like a lot of work to get the result of nothing.” Laine: “But worth it. My teachers didn’t care how I did. They were just impressed I came to class instead of siphoning gas out of their cars.” CB: “But now you’re a grown up with an actual job, which means actual people expect you do actual things.”
2. Lainey: “No, don’t you dare. That song lied to us. No one should ever Hakuna Matata their way through life.”
3. Lainey: “Earl, you do know The Lion King is a hit Broadway show with a huge cast, big numbers, awesome costumes…” CB: “There’s also a stampede of angry wildebeests on stage. Simba doesn’t get tackled fortunately, but some heavy adult themes sure do.”

Single Parents -
1. Miggy: “We took my jazz and your marching band and together we became soulmates.” Will: “Marching jazz.”
2. Douglas: “Not Xander. Oh, when he was little, it was perfect. He used to look up to me like I was a superhero. Then he got older and I don’t know what the hell happened.” Poppy: “I don’t know. Maybe you were afraid that he would stop looking up to you?”  Douglas: “Well, I guess so. I was so afraid of losing my little boy that I..I actually lost him.  I screwed up, okay? And now it’s just too late.” Poppy: “It’s not too late, Douglas. You have to tell him how you feel. He doesn’t need this stupid putt. He needs his dad.”
3. Angie: “This thing is out of control. I’ve got to end it but I’m sad. People talk about positivity feeling good and I usually want to drown those people, but it...it feels good.” Poppy: “Oh, you poor, sweet, emotionally-stunted dum dum. You know you can still be sweet even when you’re not playing a flight attendant. It’s inside you, Ang.”

Stumptown -
1. Lt. Cosgrove to Tookie, after his first reaction to her cheesesteak eggroll creation: “Try it before you lift your leg on it.” (Donna)
2. Dex to Fiona: “You might be who you were 10 years ago, but I’m not.” (Donna)
3. Fiona’s Manager: “What am I paying you for?” Dex: “To be awesome.” (Donna)

Supergirl -
1. Supergirl and Alex, in totally different ways: “Pop quiz, hotshot.” ~Brainy’s code phrase uttered by both (Donna)
2. Alex: “Supergirl, I trust your gut too.” (Donna)
3. Leviathan Lady to Rip Roar: “Do what Lex Luthor failed to do; change the world.” (Donna)

Young Sheldon -
1. MeeMaw: “Hey, I may be too drunk to drive but I still can count to six.”
2. Sheldon to Missy: “Do good baseball.”
3. MeeMaw: “She made the team.” Mary: “Congratulations.” Missy: “And MeeMaw got a date with the coach.” MeeMaw: “It was a productive afternoon.”
4. Missy: “I’m scared.” MeeMaw: “MeeMaw has just made a scene. Now is not the time to be scared.”

About the Author - Dahne

One part teacher librarian - one part avid TV fan, Dahne is a contributing writer for SpoilerTV, where she reviews and/or creates polls for Teen Wolf, How to Get Away with Murder, The Librarians, and others. She also runs the annual Character Cup. She's addicted to Twitter, loves live tweeting, and co-hosted The 100 "Red-Shirted" and Teen Wolf "Welcome to Beacon Hills" podcasts for Southgate Media Group. Previously she wrote a Last Week in TV column for her blog and SpoilerTV. ~ "I speak TV."