Quotes From "Milagro"

  • "A crime is only as perfect as the man or the mind that commits it." -- Scully

  • "I'm a writer, that's what I do. I imagine how people behave." -- Pradgett

  • "Hey, you weren't joking about being late, I was about to start slicing and dicing myself." -- Mulder to Scully

  • Scully: You don't have much.
    Padgett: I have what I need.

  • "[My novels] are all failures. Except the one I'm working on now. I think I'm getting it right." -- Padgett

  • "Loneliness is a choice." -- Scully

  • "To really write someone I have to be in their head. I have to know them more completely than they know themselves." -- Padgett

  • Scully: I'm very uncomfortable with this.
    Padgett: Why? You're armed, aren't you?

  • "Imagine that." -- Padgett

  • "Motive is never easy. Sometime it occurs to one only later." -- Padgett

  • "I only knew what was in my mind and wished to express it clearly." -- Padgett

  • "It's the characters that use the writer, not the other way around." -- Padgett

  • Mulder: Why, Mr. Padgett? Maybe that's the question you *can* answer.
    Padgett: That's the one question I can't.

  • Padgett: Agent Mulder, my book. Did you like it?
    Mulder: Only if it were fiction.

  • "Love, unlike matter or energy, was an endless supply in the universe, a germ which grows from nothingness, which cannot be eradicated even from the darkest of hearts." -- Padgett

  • ". . . That to have love was to carry a vessel that could be lost or stolen, or worse, spilled blood-red on the ground; and that love was not immutable: it could become hate, as day becomes night, as life becomes death." -- Padgett

  • "In my book I'd written that Agent Scully falls in love, but that's obviously impossible. Agent Scully is already in love." -- Padgett

  • "[Scully's] only trying to get [Mulder's] attention, but doesn't know it." -- Padgett

  • "See? [The story] almost writes itself." -- The Stranger to Padgett

  • "A story can have only one true ending. Even as the Stranger felt compelled to commit his final words to paper, he did it knowing it must never be read. To see the sum of his work was to see inside his own emptiness, the heart of a destroyer, not a creator. And yet reflected back apon him at last, he could see his own ending, and in this final act of destruction, a chance to give what he could not receive." -- Padgett`

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