Mourning

Sometimes I don't know whom I'm most in mourning for -- Matthew or the person I used to be when I was with him.

- Lady Mary in Downton Abbey - 4x03


"But it won't bring him back for you to sit alone night after night."
"I know. But you see I have this feeling that when I laugh or read a book or hum a tune, it means that I've forgotten him for just a moment, and it's that that I can't bear."

- Violet Crawley and Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey - 4x03


"I was wrong to hesitate. But then guilt has the power to make all of us do strange things."

- Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey - 4x03

Changeable

Nothing's as changeable as a young man's heart. Take hope and a warning from that.

- Mrs. Patmore in Downton Abbey - 4x02

Grieving

I realize that the socially acceptable time to wallow in grief is coming to an end.... I feel like there are two types of people in this world, Rossi, the ones that get over their grief and move on, and the ones that descend into some sort of endless misery.... I'm not sleeping because when I do I dream of Maeve. When I see her, I feel the sweetest relief imaginable. She always asks me to dance. But I can't. 'Cause I don't know how to dance. I never even got to touch her when she was alive. I know if I give in to that fantasy, I'll be lost forever, so I force myself to wake up. Is that part of normal healing?

- Dr. Spencer Reid in Criminal Minds - 8x20 - Alchemy

Repetition

Leonard: Well the key to acquiring proficiency in any task is repetition.
Sheldon: With certain obvious exceptions.
[Pause]
Sheldon: Suicide, for example.

- The Big Bang Theory - 1x08 - The Grasshopper Experiment

Clothes

Is it just me or does web chatting with your clothes on seem a little pointless?

- Howard Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory - 1x08 - The Grasshopper Experiment

Choice

You mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of not caring, while I assure you the truth is precisely the opposite.

- Spock in Star Trek - Into Darkness

Magic

There's no such thing as magic. Not in the traditional, abracadabra, genie-in-a-bottle kind of way. But there is a magic in knowing that while not everything can be repaired, most everything can be survived.

- Meredith Grey voice over in Grey's Anatomy - 9x22 - Do You Believe in Magic