Agent Dana Scully Quotes

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[Memento Mori Journal Entries]

Season One: 1993-94

"What I find fantastic is the notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there, you just have to know where to look."--Pilot
"Agent Mulder believes we are not alone."--Pilot
"Mulder, you're crazy."--Deep Throat
"Then I can't wait 'till you fall off and land on your ass!"--Squeeze
"Keep it up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you like that beast woman."--Jersey Devil
"Wait....You think *I'm* right?"--Shadows
"Yeah...ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning to braid my own hair."--Space
"Mulder, you just keep unfolding like a flower."--Fire
"I'm here to tell you that if he dies because of what you've done, four days from now, no one will stop me from being the one to throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son-of-a-bitch!"--Beyond the Sea
"So what IS our profile of the killer? 'Indeterminate height, weight, sex; unarmed, but extremely attractive'?"--Genderbender
"Mulder, the truth is out there, but so are lies."--E.B.E.
"A healer's greatest magic lies in the patient's willingness to believe; Imagine a miracle, and you're halfway there."--Miracle Man
"Oh, a BRAIN-sucking ameba."--Darkness Falls
"Mulder, I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you."--Tooms
"My instinct tells me that burial in cement is murder."--Tooms
"Does this pitch somehow end with a way for me to lower my long distance charges?"--Roland
"Okay, Mulder, but I'm warning you--If this is monkey pee, you're on your own."--The Erlenmeyer Flask

Season Two: 1994-95

"That would be bad for the fish."--Little Green Men
"I knew there was a reason to live."--One Breath
"It is somehow easier to believe...in aliens and UFOs than in the kind of cold-blooded, inhuman monster who could prey on the living to scavenge from the dead."--Irresistible
"Death, like life itself, is a drama with a beginning, middle, and end."--Irresistible
"...You think you can look into the face of pure evil, and then you find yourself paralyzed by it."---Irresistible
"I trust him as much as anyone....I trust him with my life."--Irresistible
"I know that the world is full of predators, just as it has always been. And I know that it is my job to protect people from them. And I have counted on that fact to give me faith in my ability to do what I do....I want that faith back....I need it back."--Irresistible
"Mulder, TOADS just fell from the sky!"--Die Hand Die Verletzt
"Do you recall what Barnum said about suckers?"--Humbug
"Many of the things I have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe. But this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know...to understand...to apply reason to those things that seem to defy it. It was science that isolated the retrovirus Agent Mulder was exposed to and science that allowed us to understand its behavior. And ultimately, it was science that saved Agent Mulder's life."--End Game
"Did you learn about 'wind' in kindergarten?"--The Calusari
"Too bad you didn't take a picture. You could've run it through your computer and seen the entire last supper."--The Calusari
"Neat trick. For your birthday, I'll buy you a utility belt."--Soft Light
"Darkness hides a multitude of sins."--Soft Light
"Nonsensical repetitive behavior is a common trait of mental illness."--Soft Light

Season Three: 1995-96

"With all due respect sir, I think you overestimate your position in the chain of command."--The Blessing Way
"Lots and LOTS of files!"--Paperclip
"I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers."--Paperclip
"There are hits and there are misses--and then there are misses."--Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
"I can't take you anywhere."--Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
"Sorry, I didn't mean to give off any 'negative energy'."--Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
"I only get five?"--The List
"Mulder, this is even hokier than the one they aired on the Fox Network."--Nisei
"Believing is the easy part, Mulder. I just need more than you. I need proof."--Nisei
"Don't you see, Mulder? You're doing their work for them. You're chasing aliens that aren't there, helping them to create a story to cover the shameful truth. And what they can't cover they apologize for. Apology has become policy."--731
"Mulder, would you do me a favor? Would you smell Mr. Jarvis?"--Revelations
"How is it that you're able to go out on a limb whenever you see a light in the sky but you're unwilling to accept the possibility of a miracle?"--Revelations
"Afraid that God is speaking...but that no one's listening."--Revelations
"Mulder, I think the only thing more fortuitous than the evolution of life on this planet is that through purely random laws of biological evolution an intelligence as complex as ours ever emanated from it. The idea of intelligent alien life, aside from being astronomically improbable, is, at its most basic level, downright anti-Darwinian."--War of the Copraphages
"Mulder, are you sure it wasn't a girlie scream?--War of the Coprophages
"Bambi? Her name is Bambi?--War of the Coprophages
"I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said."--War of the Coprophages
"Smart is sexy."--War of the Coprophages
"Who died now?"--War of the Coprophages
"Why do you always get to drive? Because you're the guy? Because you're the big, macho man?"--Syzygy
"Sure. Fine. Whatever."--Syzygy
"Shut up, Mulder."--Syzygy
"I am not going to be humiliated by you, in front of you, or by having to bring a teenage girl in, on her birthday of all days, to identify the bones of her dead dog, Mr. Tippy."--Syzygy
"Maybe we bury the dead alive."--Apocrypha
"Please explain to me the scientific nature of 'the whammy.'"--Pusher
"Mulder, you're nuts!"--Jose Chung's from Outer Space
"I know it probably doesn't have the sense of closure that you want, but it has more than some of our cases."--Jose Chung's from Outer Space
"Well, he didn't say 'bleep,' he said...."--Jose Chung's from Outer Space
"They found your bleep'n UFO."--Jose Chung's from Outer Space
"Whatever extreme cases I have encountered, I have always viewed through the lens of science."--Avatar
"You're so consumed by your own personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to fit your megalomaniacal cosmology."--Quagmire

Season Four: 1996-97

The Memento Mori Journals
"Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, just in contradiction to what we know of it"--Herrenvolk
"Mulder, if you had to do without your cell phone for two minutes you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia."--Home
"Meanwhile I've quit the FBI and become a spokesperson for the AB Roller.--Home
"Not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate."--Teliko
"Ich habe keine unruhe!"--Unruhe
"For truly to pursue monsters we must understand them. We must venture into their minds. Only in doing so, do we risk letting them venture into ours?"--Unruhe
"Even if I knew for certain, I wouldn't change a day...well...maybe that Flukeman thing...I could have lived without that just fine."--The Field Where I Died
"I left behind a career in medicine to become an FBI agent four years ago because I believed in this country. Because I wanted to uphold its laws, to punish the guilty, and to protect the innocent. I still believe in this country. But I believe there are powerful men in the government who do not. Men who have no respect for the law and who flaunt it with impunity...."--Tunguska
"What I am saying is that there is a culture of lawlessness that has prevented me from doing my job. That the real target of this committee's investigation should be the men who are beyond prosecution and punishment. The men whose secret policies are behind the crimes that you are investigating."--Tunguska
"Mulder, they're worms."--Leonard Betts
"Your contact, while interesting in the context of science fiction, was, at least in my memory, recounting a poorly veiled synopsis of an episode of 'Rocky and Bullwinkle.'"--Never Again
"Not everything is about you, Mulder. This is *my* life."--Never Again
"Mulder, whatever you found or whatever you might find, I think that we both know that right now the truth is in me, and that's where I need to pursue it."--Memento Mori
"I'm fine....Quit staring at me, I'm fine!"--Memento Mori
"Dog years? Thank you."--Tempus Fugit
"Oh, promise me this isn't leading to something really embarrassing."--Tempus Fugit
"You sure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthday."--Tempus Fugit
"Look, we still haven't celebrated my birthday, Pendrell. I'm not going to let you off the hook like this."--Max
"He's an FBI agent, and he's not going to die."--Max
"Mulder, what are these people dying for? Is it for the truth or for the lies?"--Max
"I think you were actually kindred spirits in some deep, strange, way....Men with Spartan lives, simple in their creature comforts, if only to allow for the complexity of their passions."--Max
"I realize I didn't even know his first name."--Max
"I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work...and team work; because no one gets there alone. And that while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieved them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who made these achievements and leaps possible."--Max
"If he would lie *for* you what makes you think he wouldn't lie *to* you."--Synchrony
"Did he have a light saber?"--Small Potatoes
"On behalf of all the women in the world, I seriously doubt that this has anything to do with consensual sex."--Small Potatoes
"I would have thought that after four years you'd know *exactly* what that look was."--Elegy
"I guess I never realized how much I rely on him before this. His passion....He's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on."--Elegy
"Mulder, you are not 'really good.'"--Demons
"Are you going to shoot me? Is that how much this means to you?"--Demons
"This is not the way to the truth, Mulder. You've got to trust me."--Demons
"...I'm concerned that this experience will have a lasting effect....Agent Mulder undertook this treatment hoping to lay claim to his past. That by retrieving memories lost to him, he might finally understand the path he's on. But if that knowledge remains elusive, and if it's only by knowing where he's been that he can understand where he's going, then I fear Agent Mulder may lose his course; and the truths he's seeking from his childhood will continue to evade him, driving him more dangerously forward in impossible pursuit."--Demons
"I come here today, four years later, to report on the illegitimacy of Agent Mulder's work...that it is my scientific opinion that he became, over the course of these years, a victim...a victim of his own false hope and his belief in the biggest of lies."--Gethsemane
"I am here today to expose this lie, to show the mechanism of deception that drew him and me into it, and to expose Agent Mulder's work for what it is."--Gethsemane
"I have strength, and I'm not going to come running back now. It's just not who I am. I'd be lying to myself and to you."--Gethsemane
"This is your Holy Grail, not mine....Proving to the world the existence of alien life is not my last dying wish."--Gethsemane
"Mulder, the only lie here is the one that you continue to believe."--Gethsemane
"He said that the men behind this hoax, behind these lies, gave me this disease to make you believe."--Gethsemane

Season Five: 1997-98

"The cruelest ironies are those consecrated by the passage of time, chanced and occasioned by shocking discovery. I had joined Agent Mulder on the X-Files because of my background in the medical sciences. My assignment was to question his work, to debunk his investigations, and to reign him back into the FBI mainstream. Now, as fate would have it, I am calling on these very same skills to prove that he has been the target of a scheme orchestrated by someone close to us in the FBI. Someone we have trusted above all others, involved in a highly organized plot to keep a dangerous secret from the light of day." --Redux
"I have few short hours to conduct these tests before I must appear before an FBI panel to explain myself. And as I am ready to lie to them about Agent Mulder, I am also ready to confront them with proof--proof extracted from this tiny organism--that could blow open a conspiracy of global consequence."--Redux
"If my work with Agent Mulder has tested the foundation of my beliefs, science has been and continues to be my guiding light. Now I'm again relying on its familiar and systematic methods to arrive at a truth, a fact that might explain the fate that has befallen me. An investigation that began without, now turning within."--Redux
"If science serves me to these ends, it is not lost on me that the tool with which I've come to depend on absolutely cannot save or protect me, but only bring into focus the darkness that lies ahead."--Redux
"That would mean that for four years we've been nothing more than pawns in a game...that it was a lie from the beginning."--Redux
"Mulder, these men....You give them your faith, and you're supposed to trust them with your life."--Redux
"It's got to happen. Everything in my life depends upon it."--Redux
"All lies lead to the truth. Isn't that right?"--Redux
"What I have here is proof undeniable that the men who gave me this disease were also behind the hoax. A plot designed to lead to Agent Mulder's demise and to my own, planned and executed by someone in this room. What I have here is scientific evidence."--Redux
"Mulder, if I can save you, let me. Let me give at least some meaning to what's happened to me."--Redux II
"I think that everybody here has their heart in the right place, but I need it to be *my* decision."--Redux II
"Have you ever witnessed a miracle, Dr. Zuckerman?"--Redux II
"I fight, and I fight, and I fight...but I've been so stupid."--Redux II
"I've come so far in life on simple faith, and now when I need it the most, I just push it away."--Redux II
"I must remind you that this goes against the Bureau's policy of male and female agents consorting in the same hotel room while on assignment."--Detour
"Mulder, we're in Western Florida. The closest thing to primitive down here is living in a beachfront retirement condo."--Detour
"I identified with Betty's bustline."--Detour
"You know, Mulder, sometimes I think some work on your communication skills wouldn't be such a bad idea."--Detour
"What would that be filed next to? The cockroach that ate Cincinnati?"--Detour
"Maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky."--Detour
"When I was fighting my cancer, I was angry at the injustice of it and its meaninglessness, and then I realized that that was the struggle--to give it meaning; to make sense of it."--Detour
"There has to be a scientific explanation for this."--Detour
"Is there anything that you *don't* believe in, Mulder?"--Post Modern Prometheus
"Several months ago, I learned that as a result of my abduction--of what they did to me--that I cannot conceive a child....I just never realized how much I wanted it until I couldn't have it."--Christmas Carol
"To be honest, I've started to question my priorities since I was first diagnosed with cancer, and I feel like I've been given a second chance."--Christmas Carol
"Ever since I was a child, I never allowed myself to get too close to people. I've avoided emotional attachments. Perhaps I've been so afraid of death and dying, that any connection just seemed like a bad thing--something that wouldn't last. But I don't feel that anymore."--Christmas Carol
"I don't believe in fate. I think we have to choose our own path."--Christmas Carol
"It begins where it ends--in nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest fears coming to me unguarded. Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound, touched by others but never held, on a course chartered by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me until at last I reach the end--facing a truth I can no longer deny. Alone...as ever."--Emily
"I can protect her too."--Emily
"I am a medical doctor, and the decisions that I make are reasonable and right."--Emily
"Do you think that I don't want what's best for this child? Do you think that I'm not trying to save her life?"--Emily
"Mulder, whoever brought this child into this world didn't intend to love her."--Emily
"You were right. This child was not meant to be."--Emily
"Who are the men who would create a life whose only hope is to die?"--Emily
"I'm on vacation."--Chinga
"I was hoping for something a little more helpful."--Chinga
"New England hospitality. Heard about it all my life....Finally got a chance to experience it for myself."--Chinga
"I've been thinking that maybe we need to explore other possibilities....Well, maybe we need to keep our minds open to extreme possibilities."--Chinga
"That looks like something out of Jules Verne. We're suppose to eat that?"--Chinga
"Mulder, are there any references in occult literature to objects that have the power to direct human behavior?...Um...like a doll, for instance?"--Chinga
"Oh, I don't know. I think some things are better left unexplained."--Chinga
"And what was your role in this? Were you the bass player?"--Killswitch
"Your name is Esther Nairn?"--Killswitch
"Oh, right. Death from above."--Killswitch
"Aren't you worried it's gonna track you down, Esther? Hunt you down with its particle beam?"--Killswitch
"Did anyone think to check his email?"--Killswitch
"I didn't do the...with the thing!"--Bad Blood
"Tonight? I just put money in the Magic Fingers!"--Bad Blood
"Hoo-boy!"--Bad Blood
"If there's a point, Mulder, please feel free to come to it."--Bad Blood
"Anyway, I was drugged."--Bad Blood
"It's not that Mexican goat-sucker either."--Bad Blood
"Yee-haw."--Bad Blood
"What do you mean you want me to do another autopsy? And why do I have to do it right now? I just spent hours on my feet doing an autopsy all for you! I do it all for you, Mulder! You know, I haven't eaten since six o'clock this morning. And all that was was a half of a cream cheese bagel, and it wasn't even real cream cheese, it was light cream cheese! And now you want me to run off and do another autopsy? What the hell happened to you?"--Bad Blood
"Don't you touch that bed!"--Bad Blood
"Creep."--Bad Blood
"You're saying that I actually hit him two times? And then he sort of flew at me like a flying squirrel?"--Bad Blood
"Why would a real vampire need fake fangs? I mean...for the sake of argument."--Bad Blood
"Mulder, it's not just me. Nobody in their right mind will ever believe that story."--Bad Blood
"Shouldn't that be my picture next to that headline?"--Patient X
"You look constipated, actually."--Patient X
"Well I guess I'm done here. You seem to have invalidated your own work. Have a nice life."--Patient X
"Mulder, why are you tiptoeing around the obvious facts? I mean, this is Skyland Mountain. We're right back here on Skyland Mountain."--Patient X
"You know Mulder, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to rule out what Cassandra Spender has to say."--Patient X
"Mulder, when I met you five years ago, you told me that your sister had been abducted...by aliens--that that event had marked you so deeply that nothing else mattered. I didn't believe you, but I followed you on nothing more than your faith that the truth was out there--based not on facts, not on science, but on your memories that your sister had been taken from you. Your memories were all that you had...."--The Red and the Black
"Whether you trust them or not, they've led you here--and me, but I have no memories to either trust nor distrust. And if you ask me now to follow you again, to stand behind you in what you now believe, without knowing what happened to me out there, without those memories....I can't...I won't."--The Red and the Black
"How else did she see...batvision?"--Mind's Eye
"Father, I'm an FBI Agent. I've taken it as my code and purpose to uphold the law, to save lives."--All Souls
"Father, I told you I had a sin to confess, but for the sin of which I'm guilty, I'm not sure you can offer forgiveness. An innocent girl is dead because of me. I could have saved her life, but I let her die."--All Souls
"As much as I have my faith, Father, I am a scientist, trained to weigh evidence. But science only teaches us how, not why."--All Souls
"I brought Agent Mulder on the case to help temper my feelings, to keep them from clouding my judgement. I wouldn't admit it to him, but as we stood there, I felt as if Father Gregory were speaking directly to me in a language only I could understand."--All Souls
"I was raised to believe that God has his reasons, however mysterious."--All Souls
"I told myself that it was all in my head, an hallucination brought on by my emotional connection to the case, but that's not what it was, Father. I was meant to see Emily for a purpose--to save these girls.""--All Souls
"I've seen things, things that have made me question if there aren't larger forces at work here."--All Souls
"Maybe that's what faith is."--All Souls
(Hotel clerk) "Are you the wife?"
(Scully) "Not even close."--Pine Bluff Variant
"Exactly what agency are you guys from? (pause) Obviously not the Office of Information."--Pine Bluff Variant
"You knew about this all along! You knew about this the whole time!"--Pine Bluff Variant
"Folie a Deux--A madness shared by two."--Folie a Deux
"Analyze the data...with an eye to the parapsychological."--The End
"Mulder, whatever you may believe, this time, they may have won."--The End

Fight the Future: 1998

"I had you big time."--FTF
"Don't think! Just pick up the phone and make it happen!"--FTF
"There's no time!"--FTF
"Mulder they have divided us, they're splitting us up." --FTF
"I left behind a career in medicine because I thought that I could make a difference at the FBI. But it hasn't turned out that way. And now if, if they were transfer me to Omaha, or Cleveland, or some field office it just doesn't hold the interest for me that it once did. Not after what I've seen and done." --FTF
"Maybe you should ask yourself if your heart is still in it too." --FTF
"Are you drunk, Mulder?"--FTF
"I don't know what killed this man. I'm not sure anybody else could claim to either."--FTF
"I'm already way past the point of common sense here."--FTF
"We've got two choices. One of them is wrong."--FTF
"They haul gas in tanker trucks. They haul oil in tanker trucks. They do not haul viruses in tanker trucks."--FTF
"*You're* on the verge, Mulder. Please don't do this to me."--FTF
"You don't, Mulder. You've never needed me. I've only held you back."--FTF
"I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence in hand."--FTF

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