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Season 3 Quotes
Narrator: All stories end. Ours ends here, where it all began, a long time ago.
Gus: We’re going to save the world together.
Ron: You can’t outrun death. Sooner or later, it comes for all of us.
Tommy Jepperd: We got kids with us.
Ron: They’re just animals, aren’t they? They’ll be fine.
Bear: I think we know who the animals are here.
Ron: We deserve to enjoy the time we have left.
Bear: Fine, but some of us are trying to make this world a little better. Some of us have a future.
Ron: Do you?
Wendy: When we grow up, we’ll be better.
Siana: “What if” is a killer.
Tommy Jepperd: I don’t know if I can make this trip, Sweet Tooth. I’m not number 93 anymore. I don’t just bounce back when things hit me. I got my knee. I got a bullet in my shoulder. My head. I’m not acting like a child. I’m just getting old. I’m just trying to look after you, Sweet Tooth. But life happens to all of us.
Narrator: We all have stories to tell. Some of them we tell to others. All of them we tell to ourselves. But where are our stories born? With our parents? Or with us?
Siana: The world can be unpredictable. Humans fight a lot.
Nuka: Why?
Siana: It’s a bad habit from the before times. Things get hard, and people forget all the good lessons their parents taught them.
Gus: No one should take away what makes us special.
Dr. Aditya Singh: Gus is the key to fixing everything.
Coral: Appreciate what you got while you still got it.
Narrator: It takes bravery to leave behind everything you know.
Narrator: There are two parts to every sacrifice. The pain of giving up what you love, and what’s waiting for you on the other side.
Narrator: We all want to be remembered in some way. The question is always how. How would we like to be remembered? By going gracefully into that good night? Or by carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders? However it may be, one thing is certain. We all want to know we left this world doing some good, that our lives truly meant something.
Tommy Jepperd: You have any idea what he’s going to see out there?
Dr. Aditya Singh: What’s worse? Gus seeing death, or dying?
Bear: [referring to her adoptive parents] They told me that phrase. “Blood is thicker than water.” But they explained people always get it wrong. Water refers to the water of the womb. Families related by birth. But blood, blood means bonds forged in battle. It means the relationships we choose are stronger than the ones we’re born into.
Tommy Jepperd: People want to act like something’s bigger out there so they can deal with it, so they can make sense of it. But seeing what I’ve seen, I know it’s all bulls**t. There’s no such thing as fairy tales.
Dr. Aditya Singh: And yet, you hope a little boy, with deer antlers will stay an innocent child, forever.
Darwin: Death is hardest on those who live on, because we get left behind, with nothing but memories of the people we loved.
Gus: But they can live on. Through us.
Bear: I didn’t have a choice.
Rosie: Why do people always say that when they’re scared? Like suddenly they’re completely powerless to think for themselves.
Dr. Aditya Singh: I’m afraid science is rather useless these days, Ms. Zhang. You see, I dedicated my life to it, and all it brought me was heartache.
Zhang: Never underestimate a desperate man.
Gus: Pubba told me that the trees feel pain differently from us, and even though we’re different, we all share the same world. And Pubba told me that the trees are my family, and the maple syrup’s their gift.
Tommy Jepperd: When the world goes to s**t, it seems like the only option left is to turn inward and fight for yourself. That’s how I used to operate. That’s what I thought I had to do to survive. But then, I met this scrawny little hybrid kid who had to grow up way too fast. He’d seen the worst in humanity. He has every reason to hate us. But the crazy thing is, not only does he see the best in us, but he expects the best in us.
Tommy Jepperd: Sweet Tooth showed me that we don’t have to live in a world where we fight for ourselves. He showed me we can live in a world where we fight for each other. Now, if we work together, then maybe, just maybe, we can still have a home.
Munaqsriri: People are the disease, Gus. The Sick is the cure.
Zhang: “It’s amazing what you can do when it’s for someone you love.”
Birdie: All those years I spent looking for the cure just led me here. All those years I could have spent with you.
Gus: I’m here now.
Tommy Jepperd: My mama used to tell me the hardest mile’s always the last one home. When you’re almost at the finish line, you start slowing down. Because you know it’s coming. But that’s when you got to find something extra. Something inside of you you didn’t know you had. It means finding the one thing that gave you something to live for in the first place.
Tommy Jepperd: In life, you got nothing to live for until you got something to die for.
Birdie: What if we’re trying to fix a world that’s not broken?
Birdie: We don’t deserve to be saved. We’re already on borrowed time.
Dr. Aditya Singh: And that’s the thing about fate, Gus. You can’t outrun it.
Birdie: [after she’s fatally wounded saving Gus] I got to see you again, Gus.
Gus: No, please stay. Please stay.
Birdie: That means the world to me.
Narrator: All stories end. We may not be ready for it when it comes. In fact, we may never be. We say it’s too soon. We ask ourselves if the journey was too difficult. If the cost was too high. All stories end. The only question that remains, who will be left alive to tell this one, humans or hybrids?
Gus: Your time is over. Humans don’t deserve any more. All you do is take. All you do is turn on each other. All you care about is yourselves. You steal, and you lie. You hate everything that’s not you. You think you’re better than animals. Well, animals don’t destroy everything around them.
Dr. Aditya Singh: You’ve no idea the things I’ve seen. The things I’ve done. The things I regret. But if I’m correct, soon they’ll all be forgiven.
Richard Fox ‘Pubba’: Death isn’t just an ending, Gus. Death is a part of life. All things come to an end sometime.
Gus: So the next one can begin.
Richard Fox ‘Pubba’: Like seasons, the ring of a tree, or stories.
Richard Fox ‘Pubba’: The world needs to move on, Gus. Nature’s ready. I think it’s time to finally turn the page.
Gus: There is good in people, but it comes with the bad too. They’re complicated.
Richard Fox ‘Pubba’: There are no easy answers in life, Gus. We just have to trust if we live our lives the best we can, we can leave this world a little better than we found it. No matter how much time we have left.
Richard Fox ‘Pubba’: So you ready to turn the page?
Gus: I’m ready. But how will I know he’s going to survive?
Richard Fox ‘Pubba’: You won’t.
Tommy Jepperd: Sweet Tooth, what did you do?
Gus: I let nature decide.
Narrator: It was clear to our remaining humans that after all they had been through, nature decided to show them mercy. But it became clear in the days that followed, that those humans would be the last. Hybrids would indeed inherit the earth. The Sick was buried for good in that cave, and the clock stopped ticking for humankind. Now, they could spend whatever remaining time they had left together, in peace.
Tommy Jepperd: I’ve seen some beautiful things in my life, Sweet Tooth. I’ve never seen anything this beautiful. Tell me a story.
Gus: What kind of story?
Tommy Jepperd: Any kind. Help us keep going.
Gus: This is a story. A story about a boy named Gus. And a doctor named Singh. But this is really a story about a big man who taught the boy about the best of humanity. It’s a story about the ones who made mistakes. And the ones who learned to accept them. And the ones who never will. And the ones who found redemption. And the ones who found the true meaning of sacrifice. And the ones who found their way back home.
Gus: This is a story about friendship. And about love. It’s about teaching the next generation. It’s a story about passage. But it’s also about new beginnings. It’s a story about home. And a future. Together. But, in the end, the boy learned something. That the worst of humanity may have died off, but the best of humanity lives on. In us.
Gus: [after it’s revealed that Gus has been the narrator all along] All stories end. But ours has just begun.
Narrator: His name was Tommy Jepperd. And he lives on in our stories.
Tommy Jepperd: [as Gus is telling him the story] What about the big man? Did he make it back with him?
[we then see Jepperd in Yellowstone with Gus as they drink maple syrup and share a smile]