50 Best The Last of Us Quotes

Marlene: [as Joel wakes up from being knocked out by a soldier after Ellie nearly drowned] Welcome to the Fireflies. Sorry about the...
[gestures to her head]
Marlene: They didn't know who you were.
Joel: [worried] And Ellie?
Marlene: She's alright. They brought her back.
[Joel lays back down, visibly relieved]
Marlene: You came all this way. How'd you do it?
Joel: [sighs] It was her. She fought like hell to get here. Maybe it was meant to be.
Marlene: I lost most of my crew crossing the country. I pretty much lost everything. And then you show up, and somehow we find you just in time to save her. Maybe it was meant to be.
Joel: Take me to her.
Marlene: You don't have to worry about her anymore. We'll take care of...
Joel: I worry. Just... let me see her, please.
Marlene: You can't. She's being prepped for surgery.
Joel: The hell you mean, surgery?
Marlene: The doctors tell me the cordyceps, the growth inside her, has somehow mutated. It's why she's immune. Once they remove it, they'll be able to reverse-engineer a vaccine. A vaccine!
Joel: But it grows all over the brain.
Marlene: [smiles sadly] It does.
Joel: [realization dawns on Joel's face, then muted fury] Find someone else.
Marlene: There is no one else!
Joel: Listen, you are gonna show me where she-
[Marlene's bodyguard knocks Joel to the floor]
Marlene: Stop. I get it. But whatever it is you think you're going through right now, it is nothing to what I have been through. I knew her since she was born. I promised her mother I would look after her.
Joel: Then why are you letting this happen?
Marlene: Because this isn't about me! Or even her! There is no other choice here!
Joel: [scoffs, glaring daggers] Yeah. You keep telling yourself that bullshit.
Marlene: [regards him quietly for a moment] ... March him outta here. He tries anything, shoot him. Don't waste this gift, Joel.

Joel: [finding a pile of dead, bullet-ridden, bloodied corpses in a room, after trying to find sanctuary from human bandits that tried to kill them in Philadelphia] Fucking hunters. See, this could have been us.

Bill: [attempting to start a truck] Battery's dead but the cells are alive.
Joel: Meaning?
Bill: Meaning we push it, get it started, and the alternator will recharge the battery.
Joel: [scoffs, amused] That your guess?
Bill: Look, you wanted a plan B, this is as good as it gets!
Ellie: [walking up to Joel] What're you thinking?
Joel: I'm thinkin' you drive and we push.
[Ellie hops in the car. Joel leans into the window, concerned]
Joel: You gonna be okay with this?
Ellie: Yeah. Not a problem.
Joel: You're doin' a good job. I figure you should know that.
Ellie: I won't let you down with this.

Henry: [after Joel pummels him in a misunderstanding] Man, you hit hard.
Joel: Yeah, well, I was trying to kill you.

Ellie: What did the green grape say to the purple grape? "Breath, you idiot!"

Ellie: It doesn't matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

Joel: [after Ellie saves him from a hunter] Why didn't you just hang back like I told you to?
Ellie: Well, you're glad I didn't, right?
Joel: I'm glad I didn't get my head blown off by a goddamn kid.
Ellie: You know what? No. How about "Hey, Ellie. I know it wasn't easy, but it was either him or me, thanks for saving my ass." You got anything like that for me, Joel?

Bill: You know, as bad as those things are, at least they're predictable. It's the normal people that scare me.

Ellie: We're here because you owe Joel some favors, and you can start by taking these off!
[referring to handcuffs dangling from her wrist]
Bill: I owe Joel some favors... is this some kind of joke?
Joel: I'll cut to the chase: I need a car.
Bill: Well, it is a joke. Joel needs a car! Well, if I had one that works, which I sure as hell don't, what makes you think I'd just give it to you? Huh? "Yeah sure, Joel, go ahead, take my car! Take all my food too, while you're at it!
Ellie: By the looks of it, you could lose some of that food.
Bill: [Points a knife at her] You listen to me, you little shit...
Ellie: No, fuck you! You handcuffed me!

David: We're from a larger group - women, children - we're all very very hungry.
Ellie: So am I - women and children - all very hungry too.

Ellie: I shot the hell out of that guy, huh?

Ellie: [Reading from a joke book] People are making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow... Too soon.

Ellie: Holy shit. We actually made it.
Joel: Everyone okay?
Tess: Yes. Let's move.
Ellie: You guys are pretty good at this stuff.
Joel: It's called luck, and it is gonna run out.

Joel: [coming upon Ellie hacking away at the body of David, her would-be rapist] Ellie! Stop! Stop!
Ellie: Don't fucking touch me!
Joel: Ssh, ssh! It's okay! It's me, it's me! Look, look. It's me.
Ellie: [crying, traumatized] He tried to...
Joel: [pulls her close] Oh, baby girl. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay now.

Ellie: Well, maybe in all that research they turned into fucking monkeys.

Ellie: [after breaking David's finger] Ellie.
David: What?
Ellie: Tell them that... Ellie is the little girl that broke your fucking finger.

Ellie: Everyone I have cared for has either died or left me. Everyone - fucking except for you! So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.
Joel: You're right... You're not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain't your dad. And we are going our separate ways.

Ellie: I dreamt about flying the other night.
Joel: Oh yeah?
Ellie: Yeah.
Joel: Go on, tell me about it.
Ellie: So, I'm on this big plane full of people. And everyone is screaming and yelling 'cause the plane's going down. So I walk to the cockpit, open the door, but there's no pilot. I try to use the controls but... I obviously have no clue how to fly a plane. And right before we crash, I wake up. I've never been on a plane. Isn't that weird?
Joel: Hmpf. Well, you know, dreams are weird.

Bill: Once upon a time, I had somebody that I cared about... It was a partner. Somebody I had to look after. And in this world, that sort of shit's good for one thing: Gettin' you killed. So you know what I did? I wizened the fuck up, and realized it's got to be just me out there.

David: You handled yourself pretty nice back there. Ha, whew, I say we make a pretty good team.
Ellie: Psshh. We got lucky.
David: Lucky? No, no... no such thing as luck. No, you see I believe that everything happens for a reason.
Ellie: Sure.
David: I do. And I can prove it to you. Now, this winter has been especially cruel. A few weeks back, I ah... sent a group of men out - nearby town to look for food. Only a few came back. They said that the others had been, ah, slaughtered by a crazy man. And get this, he's a crazy man traveling with a little girl. You see? Everything happens for a reason.

Ellie: ...Then you give the ball to the other team?
Joel: Right. It's called turnover.
Ellie: And if you clear the ten yards then you're back at... first down?
Joel: First down, that's right.
Ellie: Man, it's confusing.
Joel: You just gotta play it a couple times, it'll all make sense.

Joel: [after Joel kills all the hunters in the bookstore] that was too damn close...
Ellie: To the edge of the universe and back, endure and survive...
Joel: excuse me?
Ellie: Savage Starlight, that comic I've been reading? It's what the hero says after a big battle.
Joel: Endure and survive?
Ellie: Yeah.
Joel: heh, okay...

Ellie: That's gotta be hard. Leaving all of your stuff behind like that.
Joel: That ain't the hard part.

David: I believe that everything happens for a reason.

Sam: How is it that you're never scared?
Ellie: Who says that I'm not?
Sam: What are you scared of?
Ellie: Let's see... Scorpions are pretty creepy. Um... Being by myself. I'm scared of ending up alone.

Ellie: Ready for a joke? Bakers trade bread recipes on a need-to-know basis...
Joel: [Doesn't respond]
Ellie: ...like 'knead'.
Joel: Yeah, I get it.

Ellie: I stayed at a place like this, back in the Boston QZ.
Joel: [reading] "Military Preparatory School..."
Ellie: Yeah. Nice way of saying "orphanage." I wonder what happened to all these kids.
Joel: This place has been out for a good stretch, they ain't kids no more.
Ellie: Meaning they're either hunters trying to kill us, or they're dead.
Joel: Or they got away.
Ellie: But you don't believe that.
Joel: I believe in getting out of this city. C'mon.

Sam: I've got a joke for you.
Ellie: Let's hear it.
Sam: Why can't your nose be twelve inches long?
Ellie: I don't know, why?
Sam: Because then it would be a foot!
Ellie: Pfft... That's so dumb

[Joel is seen tucking a heavily-drugged Ellie away into the back seat of a truck before stalking over to Marlene, writhing in pain on the ground]
Marlene: Wait! Let me go. Please!
Joel: You'd just come after her.
[shoots her point blank in the head]

Ellie: I walked in to my sister's room and slipped on her bra. It was a booby trap.

Henry: [after Joel, Ellie, Henry and Sam escape the sewers] fresh air...
Sam: [sees "Warning: Infected inside, do not enter" written on the wall] Wha'?... look at this...
Ellie: Are you fucking kidding me? Thanks for the warning on the other side guys!

Tess: What do you know about me? about us?
Joel: I know that this is not you.
Tess: Really? Guess what, we're shitty people Joel it's been that way for a long time...
Joel: No, we are survivors...
Tess: this is our chance...!
Joel: IT IS OVER, TESS! now we tried... let's just go home...

Ellie: That girl is so skinny... I thought you had plenty of food in your time.
Joel: We did. Some just chose not to eat it.
Ellie: Why the hell not?
Joel: For looks.
Ellie: Pffft, that's stupid.

Ellie: So... why don't you fix one these cars?
[referring to the mass of broken down cars]
Bill: Oh my God, you're a genius. I mean the whole time, why on earth hadn't I thought about fixin' one of these cars?
Ellie: Okay, don't be a dick...
Bill: The tires are rotten and the batteries are dead.

Ellie: Did everyone have boats back then?
Joel: I had a sixty-foot yacht.
Ellie: Really?
Joel: No.

Joel: I've struggled a long time with survivin', but no matter what you have to find something to fight for.

Ellie: [about Tess, in horror] Holy shit... she's infected.
Tess: Joel...
Joel: Let me see it.
Tess: I didn't mean for this...
Joel: Show it to me!
[Tess resentfully jerks her shirt collar aside, revealing a festering bite on her clavicle]
Joel: Oh, Christ.
Tess: Oops, right?
[to Ellie]
Tess: Give me your arm!
[pulls Ellie's sleeve back, points at the month-old bite mark on her arm]
Tess: This was three weeks! I was bitten an hour ago, and it's already worse. This is fucking real, Joel! You have got to get this girl to Tommy's. He used to run with this crew, he'll know where to go.
Joel: No, no, no! That was your crusade, I am not doing that!
Tess: Yes, you are! Look... there's enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me. So you get her to Tommy's!

Ellie: I'm sure your "friend" will be missing this tonight.
[pulls out gay porn mag]
Ellie: Light on the reading, but it has some good photos.
Joel: Now Ellie, that ain't for kids.
Ellie: Whoa! How the - how the hell would you even walk around with that thing?
Joel: Get rid of that. Just...
Ellie: Hold your horses, I wanna see what the fuss is about. Why are these pages stuck together?
Joel: Uhh...
Ellie: [laughs] I'm just fucking with you!

Firefly: If you're looking for the fireflies, they've all left. I'm dead, or I will be soon. Got me some time to reflect... I dedicated my life to this cause, now I won't get to see whether we make it or not. I joined the fireflies shortly after the outbreak. Here was a group willing to do whatever it took to save us from this plague when the government was willing to retreat to ghettos, I couldn't just give up on our country, give up on humanity. God, that sounds trite... Anyway... There have been years that felt like we were onto something, like we might actually eradicate this thing... Those were usually followed by years of utter despair, like this whole fucking thing was a giant waste of time, It feels like the past few years were more of the latter, We haven't had a breakthrough since the passive vaccine test we ran, what?... five years ago? Now this entire lab has been compromised and the higher-ups have decided to abandon the university. I'm just fuckin' tired, I can't do this anymore - I'm NOT gonna do this anymore. If you've made it here looking for the others, they've all returned to St. Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City. You'll find them there, still trying to save the world... Good luck with that.

Ellie: Hearing them talk, it's good to know they're scared of you.
Joel: Yeah, well, just try not to let your guard down.
Ellie: I'm just saying, I'm glad you're on my side.
[Joel doesn't respond]
Ellie: That was a compliment.
Joel: Okay.

Ellie: I really shot the hell out of that guy, huh?

Ellie: What did the mermaid wear to her math class?
Joel: [Annoyed] What?
Ellie: An algae-bra.
Joel: [scoffs] Terrible...
Ellie: Why did the scarecrow get a promotion?
Joel: Alright...
Ellie: Because he was outstanding... In his field.
Joel: That'll do.

Ellie: [after discussing Ellie's fears] What about you?
Sam: Those things out there. What if the people are still inside? What if they're trapped in there, without any control of their body? I'm scared of that happening to me.
Ellie: Okay, first of all, we're a team now, okay. We're gonna help each other out. And second, they might still look like people, but that person is not in there anymore.
Sam: Henry says that, "They've moved on," That they're with their families. Like in heaven. Do you think that's true?
Ellie: I go back and forth. I mean, I'd like to believe it.
Sam: But you don't.
Ellie: I guess not.
Sam: Yeah... me neither.

Joel: We don't have to do this. You know that, right?
Ellie: What's the other option?
Joel: Go back to Tommy's. Just... be done with this whole thing.
Ellie: After all we've been through. I mean, everything that I've done.
[sighs wearily]
Ellie: It can't be for nothing. Look, I know you mean well, but there's no halfway with this. Once we're done, we'll go wherever you want. Okay?
Joel: Well, I ain't leavin' without you. Let's go wrap this up.

Ellie: What is the leading cause of divorce in long-term marriages?
Joel: [sighs]
Ellie: A stalemate.
Joel: That's awful.
Ellie: ...You're awful.
Joel: Do you even understand what that means?
Ellie: Nope... It doesn't matter.

Joel: [about Ellie] Take me to her.
Marlene: You don't have to worry about her anymore. We'll take care of...
Joel: [interrupting] I worry. Just... let me see her. Please.

Joel: I've struggled... a long time with survivan'. & you- no matter what... you keep finding something to fight for. Now, I know that's not what you want to hear right now, but it's...
Ellie: Swear to me. Swear to me that everything you said about the fireflies is true.
Joel: I Swear.
Ellie: [after a long pause] Okay.

Joel: Don't you have a plan B?
Bill: You're lucky you're still drawing breath! That was plan A, B, all the way to fucking Z!

Joel: [Regarding his brother]
Joel: I believe his last words to me were "I don't ever want to see your goddamn face again."

Bill: Listen, are we square?
Joel: We're square.
Bill: Good. Now get the fuck out of my town.