Notable Quotes from "Sweet Tooth"

ISOLATION & LONELINESS, FRIENDSHIP & FAMILY

Sometimes, all a boy has is his imagination.

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Maybe it goes without saying, but we’re looking for family from the moment we’re born. Turns out, we just never know where we’re going to find it. And sometimes, our families end up looking nothing like we thought they would. And sometimes, we do things for family that we never thought we could. Because family is always worth it — at least, well, we sure as hell hope so.

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…family is what we make it...

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When I lost my family, I was alone too. I was pretty scared. And lonely. Sometimes, I’d get so excited just to see another person, that I’d forget that they could be bad. I just wanted a friend — any friend.

Gus: Jepp is my friend.

Bear: Has he said he’s your friend?

Gus: No, but he doesn’t need to.

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Becky to Jepperd: How many families have you torn apart? How many children have you stolen from their parents? How many kids like Gus have you made disappear? You didn’t do it because your back was against the wall. You did it because you were good at it. Because underneath it all, you were broken. You still are broken.…

Gus to Becky: You’ve hurt people too… Those men on the horses, you hurt them. But he’s not like them. He made me a costume so people would like me, and he bought me things he thought I’d like. And he wakes me up when I’m having bad dreams. And he never tried to sell me. He tried to help me. He might not be very good at it, but… at least he tried.

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Jepperd: Listen, kid. I wanted to say thank you for that thing you did back there.

Gus: What thing?

Jepperd: You had my back.

Gus: You had mine.

LEADERSHIP

Great leaders are created in the most unexpected of places. But the worst, they are made the old-fashioned way.

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Becky to the Animal Army: When you joined this Army, this family, you made a pledge as you painted your animal on the wall. You would defend hybrids against any harm, at any cost. Today that cost may seem higher than it ever has before. Today, we’re here to put this man to death. He has done horrible things. But so have we all. So have I. The worst maybe letting my anger lead you to revenge. That is not the animal way. That only makes us more like him. Like them. In my anger, I have forgotten my pledge, our pledge: defend hybrids against all harm. If we kill this man, we are harming a very special hybrid. There will be no execution today.

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Abbott to Gladys: There really are two types of people in the world. There are people who simply let this dreadful, ugly, monstrous virus kill them and their loved ones: husbands, wives, moms, dads, children — just like your two little girls. Then you’ve got soldiers, people who are willing to do whatever it takes to beat this disgusting disease, take back control, reclaim humanity. I’m going to let you guess which kind of person I am.

LIFE & LUCK

Gus: How come you don’t get the Sick?

Jepperd: I eat a lot of Wheaties… I don’t know kid. Some people are just born lucky.

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Some say there’s no greater equalizer than Father Time. That’s because of one simple thing: No matter who you are or where you go, well, let’s just say ol’ Time’s got a knack for catching up to us all… Yep, Time’s funny that way, a constant companion — until it’s not.

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Indeed, there are moments in our lives when Time is kind to us, when we’re given an extra second, an extra minute, an extra moment with the ones we love. And sometimes, it’s like I said, Time catches up to us. Whatever the case may be, Father Time sure has a funny way of bringing everything together when, well, the time’s right.

CURIOSITY, TRUTH, DECEPTION

Jepperd to Gus: Word of advice, kid: Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to.

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Jepperd: You’re going in disguise as a human boy pretending to be a hybrid kid.

Gus: But I am a hybrid kid.

Jepperd: Well, today, that’s our secret. You’re going to be faking that you’re fake, even though you’re real.

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Aimee to Pigtail: I now how curious you are. But there’s enough to explore here without asking for trouble.

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Abbott to Gladys: Is faking a terminal illness really necessary?

LOVE & LIFE, IDENTITY & MEANING

Doug: I never planned on getting married. I was always gonna be, you know, Doug, the fifth wheel — that is, until Kelly walked in my practice looking for a pair of glasses, but finding me instead. Suddenly alll those sappy slove songs and cutesy memes made sense. You know that thing they say about Cupid’s arrow, you know, blindsiding you? Well, it’s true. Love is anarchist. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

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You’d be surprised what you’re capable of when it’s someone you love.

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Jepperd: You know, back when everything was falling apart, I had a little baby. A lot like you. When I saw him, I had no clue what to do with him. I didn’t even know what he was. I mean, nobody knew what to think in those days. I mean, how could I be responsible for a little, I mean… So I wanted to run away too.

Gus: What happened?

Jepperd: Oh, I thought about it, and I realized I was just scared. I wasn’t afraid of him. I was afraid of me. I think that fear was love that I didn’t know what to do with. But he needed me. So I stopped running. I turned around. I went to get back to him. Him and his mom. But they were already gone. Someone took ’em. And I never saw them again.

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Rani: Life is fleeting. We’ve got to enjoy it while we can.

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Dr Singh: I remember how much I enjoy the hands-on practice of medicine, the ability to restore order in someone’s life. But almost daily, I’m reminded why I quit — a time when doctors had to decide who would live and who would die, and the fear that we’ll never have a true cure.

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It’s a difficult thing, letting go. It’s tough to say goodbye... But the thing we don’t always realize when we let go of something, it opens up a little space to grow. It shows us who we are, what we’re capable of. We find out what really matters and who we really were, all along.

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In life, you’re always searching for answers: Where do you come from? Where do you belong? But most importantly, Why are you here? For some, these answers come quite easily. For others, they have to search the ends of the Earth to find them….

And when the answers you’ve been searching for are finally revealed, so is your purpose. But sometimes, the truth hurts. And sometimes, those answers leave us more in the dark than ever.

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When things fall apart, we find out who we really are. If we can see past the fear, we find out what really matters. And we learn that sometimes, the things that set us apart can also bring us together.

HOPE & EXPECTATIONS

Becky: You know, sometimes when we build up a person in our minds, they don’t always live up to that image.

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Becky: Do you honest believe his mom’ll be alive when you get…?

Jepperd:… Listen. It doesn’t matter what I believe. That little dude’s got hope coming out of every pore. No clue where he gets it from.

PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS, LOSING & FINDING

Dr. Singh: We can’t solve every problem with fire, Bob. Some things we have to deal with head on.

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Birdie: I just had a bad day. It happens.

Richard: “Sometimes you just gotta hang it up and see what tomorrow brings.“

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The past is a funny thing. We like to hold onto it so tight. But sometimes it’s better to let go. Sometimes, we just gotta move on. And sometimes, well, the past won’t let go of us.

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Sometimes, everything we thought we’d lost was right there all along.

HUMANS & NATURE

Aimee: Nature doesn’t want us back. We never gave her a good reason to keep us around in the first place.