Michael Quote #351
Quote from Michael in Whenever You're Ready
Michael: [gasps] All my Earth stuff. Oh, my old bowling ball. Oh, hi, paper clips. What prompted all this?
Eleanor: You know, it took me a while to figure it out, but earlier, when you were walking back and forth through the door, it hit me. You will never be at peace until you get the one thing you truly want.
Michael: I'm... I'm gonna be...
Eleanor: A real boy, Pinocchio.
Janet: The Judge gave me the power to make you an actual human. Good-bye, fire squid. Hello, silver fox.
Michael: Oh, Eleanor! Oh, my goodness!
Eleanor: Now, you need to be sure about this. You're gonna live down there for, like... Some amount of time, you'll die, really die, then you'll enter an afterlife test, be judged on what you did, the whole deal. At least, so we think. While you're down there, this entire system could be changed. Shawn might launch a coup. Someone could design a whole new system. You won't really know what's going to happen to you.
Michael: That's what makes it special. I won't exactly know what's going to happen after I die. Nothing more human than that. Besides texting people that you're five minutes away when you haven't even left the house. Thank you, Eleanor. Thank you.
Eleanor: You're very welcome.
The Good Place Quotes
‘Whenever You're Ready’ Quotes
Quote from Tahani
Michael: I admire your breadth of knowledge. I can only do one thing: be an architect. I've spent the last 500 Bearimies trying to learn how to play the guitar, and I just mastered "Hey There Delilah."
Tahani: Don't sell yourself short, Michael. I dare say you're the greatest architect in existence, and I should know.
All: Frank Gehry is my godfather.
Tahani: Fair enough. I deserved that.
Quote from Chidi
Eleanor: I was never good at being sad, partly because my mom straight up told me not to be. But this is sad, man. You got a John Locke quote or piece of Kantian wisdom you can throw at me?
Chidi: Those guys were more focused on rules and regulations. For spiritual stuff, you gotta turn to the East.
Eleanor: I'll take anything you got. Hit me.
Chidi: Picture a wave in the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through, and it's there, and you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes on the shore, and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a... a different way for the water to be for a little while. That's one conception of death for a Buddhist. The wave returns to the ocean, where it came from, and where it's supposed to be.
Eleanor: Not bad, Buddhists.
Chidi: Not bad. None of this is bad.
Eleanor: I need you to do me one last favor.
Chidi: Mm-hmm?
Eleanor: Say good-bye to me now, and leave before I wake up.
Quote from Judge
Judge: This meeting of the Joint Council of Afterlife Affairs is called to order. Let's make this quick, kids. I just started rewatching The Leftovers. Honestly, when I found out that Carrie Coon was never nominated, I almost erased 2% of humanity.