“Homeland” quotes

(2011)
TV Series Homeland
Title Homeland
Year 2011
Creators Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
Genre Drama, Crime, Mystery
Plot – Homeland is an American espionage thriller television series based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War. The show follows Carrie Mathison, a bipolar CIA operative who becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil. Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine Sergeant, is rescued after being held hostage since 2003. While Brody is received home as a war hero, Carrie goes to any lengths necessary to catch him.
All actors – Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend, Damian Lewis, Morena Baccarin, Jackson Pace, Morgan Saylor, F. Murray Abraham, Diego Klattenhoff, David Harewood, Tracy Letts, David Marciano, Navid Negahban
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  • “It's hard wanting something, or someone, that you just can't have.”
    Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
  • “It's the lies that undo us. It's the lies we think we need to survive. When was the last time you told the truth?”
    Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
    [Tag:lies, truth]
  • “They want you to lose faith. Lose faith in your country, which they say is the devil. In your brother marines, who they say aren't coming for you because you have no military value. In your wife, who they say has got her arms wrapped around someone else.”
    Morena Baccarin - Jessica Brody
    [Tag:faith, marriage, trust]
  • “Really? With your pensionplans and organic foods, your beach houses and sports clubs? Do you have the perseverance, the tenacity, the faith? Because we do. You can bomb us, starve us, occupy our holyplaces, but we will never lose our faith. We carry God in our hearts, our souls. To die is to join him. It may take a century, two centuries,...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Navid Negahban - Abu Nazir
    [Tag:faith, terrorism]
  • “Do I want to be friends with a demented ex-soldier who hates America, who decided that strapping on a bomb was what the answer to what ailed him, despite his daughter, his son, people who loved him in real life and not in the mind-fuck world of Abu Nazir? Who in the end didn't have the stones to go through with it but had no problem sending me...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
  • “Somewhere down there, there's a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.”
    Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
    [Tag:life, time]
  • “Saul Berenson-It's been a very complicated day.
    Mira Berenson-Your life is a very complicated day.”

    Mandy Patinkin - Saul Berenson
    Sarita Choudhury - Mira Berenson
    [Tag:day, life]
  • “Carrie Mathison-Guy hasn't broken the speed limit once.
    Danny Galvez-Does that make him more, or less suspicious?
    Carrie Mathison-It makes him boring as shit.”

    Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
    Hrach Titizian - Danny Galvez
  • “You broke my heart, you know. Was that easy for you? Was that fun? Because of you, I questioned my own sanity, I had myself admitted to a mental institution. I lost my job, too. I lost my place in the world. I lost everything.”
    Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison
    [Tag:madness, pain]
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