The Host Quotes

Jared Howe: I haven't spoken to another human being in two years.

Melanie Stryder: I'm guessing you haven't been kissed in a while, either.

[Jared smiles]

Wanderer/Wanda: You tried to kill me, and now you're protecting me?

Ian O'Shea: [beat] Strange world, isn't it?

Wanderer/Wanda: [smiles] The strangest.

Wanderer/Wanda: [softly, in awed voice] He sees everything. He's not crazy. He's a genius!

Melanie Stryder: [voice] And I think he's both.

Wanderer/Wanda: You know, it's not really me you like. It's this body. You couldn't care for me.

[taking his hand]

Wanderer/Wanda: If you could hold me - me... in your hand - you'd be disgusted.

[pause]

Wanderer/Wanda: You'd crush me.

Ian O'Shea: You don't know that.

Wanderer/Wanda: [after Melanie says to jump off the balcony, afraid] I can't.

Melanie Stryder: [voice] It's a good thing I can.

[forces them to jump]

The Seeker: I do have SOME good news. Your identification of Jared Howe has helped. There was a sighting. I am confident we will find him.

Wanderer/Wanda: [Melanie takes control] No!

Seeker Burns: Thought I was the only one who switched sides.

Wanda: I guess you never know where you're gonna find your home.

Melanie Stryder: Wanda, my sister.

Wanderer/Wanda: Yes, sister?

Melanie Stryder: Please don't do this.

Wanderer/Wanda: Don't you want to be with Jared... and Jamie?

Melanie Stryder: It doesn't have to be this way. You don't have to die. You really could go to another world, the way you've been telling everyone.

Wanderer/Wanda: Thank you, but... by the time I got to the closest planet, you, Jamie, Jared, Ian, everyone on this world I care about would be long dead. I don't want to go on without you. I love you, Mel.

Melanie Stryder: I love you. You are the purest soul, human or not, that I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you.

Wanderer/Wanda: Be happy, Mel. Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for.

Melanie Stryder, Wanderer/Wanda: Goodbye.

Ian O'Shea: Wanda, I just want you to know that, uh... I trust you and I believe you're telling us the truth, but I... I gotta ask, what's it like for you and her, living in there together?

Wanderer/Wanda: It's... crowded.

Jared Howe: [after Wanda picks up some supplies] I liked it better when we were stealing.

Ian O'Shea: You spoil everything, Wanda.

[first lines]

Jeb: The earth is at peace. There is no hunger. There is no violence. The environment is healed. Honesty, courtesy and kindness are practiced by all. Our world has never been more... perfect. Only, it is no longer our world. We've been invaded by an alien race. They occupy the bodies of almost all human beings on the planet. The few humans who have survived are on the run.

Jared Howe: What the hell has gotten into everybody? Huh? It is the enemy. Don't forget it.

Ian O'Shea: You don't feel bad at all. I half-killed her.

Jared Howe: It doesn't matter. It's not human.

Ian O'Shea: So we stop acting human?

Wanderer/Wanda: Why is he looking at you?

Melanie Stryder: Why are you looking at him?

Ian O'Shea: It's a strange world.

Wanda: The strangest.

Jeb: [narrating] Our world isn't like the other worlds they came to. The way they see it, human beings are just so... alien. But if one of them can find a way to live with one of us, I wonder.

Wanderer/Wanda: We do not lie. We trust each other.

Melanie Stryder: [voice] You guys take the fun out of everything.

Ian O'Shea: Is there any way Melanie can give us some... some privacy, look the other way a moment, step into the other room?

Melanie Stryder: [voice speaking only to Wanda] You wish.

Wanderer/Wanda: I don't think that's possible right now.

The Seeker: [quietly] I am not weak. I am in control.

The Seeker: [Lacey's voice in her mind] You will never win!

Ian O'Shea: I like you, Wanda.

Wanderer/Wanda: [smiling] I like you too, Ian.

Melanie Stryder: You did *not* say that.

Ian O'Shea: No, not- not like that.

[runs his hand along her arm]

Melanie Stryder: Get his hands off me. This can't work. What are you doing?

Ian O'Shea: Let me guess: you're of 2 minds about it.

[she nods]

Ian O'Shea: This about Jared?

Melanie Stryder: Yes, it's about Jared!

Wanderer/Wanda: Melanie's in love with him.

Ian O'Shea: And you?

Melanie Stryder: Tell him.

[beat]

Melanie Stryder: Tell him!

Wanderer/Wanda: This body loves him. Since it is now my body... so do I.

[after a silence]

Wanderer/Wanda: But I also have feelings of my own.

Melanie Stryder: No you don't!