守望尘世 第三季

Scriptlines noted down while I was watching the series.

"The sudden departure?"

"That was me."

"The sudden departure was you?"

"Uh-huh."

"Why?"

"Because I could."

"You're gonna have to do better than that."

"No, I don't."

"You do."

"Why?"

"Because there has to be a reason."

"Why?"

"Everything in my life, I've done for a reason."

"Why?"

"To help people. To...to guide them. To ease their suffering even though I suffered myself. I sacrificed my happiness. I let my family abandon me."

"Why?"

"For you!"

"Everything you've done, you've done because you thought I was watching. Because you thought I was judging. But I wasn't. I'm not. You've never done anything for me. You did it for yourself."

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"Death is easy. People just want finality, an end to their grief. But with departures, there is no end. They didn't want closure."

"Doubting is easy because doubting costs you nothing. But Judas, he was surrounded by people going on and on abour how special Jesus was. But he betrayed him anyway. Because he was sure be believed in something, and he acted on it."

"Is Nora gone?"

"We're all gone."

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"It wasn't for another hour when he was a mile from the docks that his thoughts turned back to her. He imagined her alone. By now, she would have searched the house and found it empty. She had suspected it all along and now she knew he was a coward."

"A coward dressed in the uniform of a brave man, brave enough to cross two oceans and a continent to find her, to fight countless enemies, and yet in the end, he was terrified."

"He was terrified of her, to lie beside her, to be comforted by her as he wept, to show her he was small, for her to know that and touch his cheek, and whisper words softly into his ear. All of that was a nightmare. All he knew to do was run."

"He took a deep breath of the air, tasting the salt on his tongue, and closed his eyes, leaning into the spray as The Merciful picked up speed, and sailed for the horizon."

"He was alone, and all was well."

"We fucked up with Nora."

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"I'm scared."

"I'll be fine."

"Of course you will. You always are. I'm scared of what'll happen when I go back to Mary. And I'm scared of the chemicals they're going to put in my body to try to make me better, and...I'm scared it won't work."

"I'm scared of dying, Nora. I'm scared my son will grow up without me, forget my face, forget the sound of my voice."

"But most of all, I'm scared that I'll survive. Because if I do...how can I ever stand in front of a room full of people and convince them that I have the answers when I have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about."

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We all bear chains of the past. May we find peace and love in the end.