Quotes-The Balance
MARIA: God, this day sucks.

MARIA: Well, if it isn't Prince Charming and Quasimodo.

MARIA: What are you doing?
LIZ: Max likes cherry cola. What does Michael like?
MARIA: Cherry cola with arsenic?

MICHAEL: We kind of broke up.
MAX: What? Why didn't you tell me?
MICHAEL: Look, I don't...I'm not sure if we did or didn't. I mean, it's confusing.

MICHAEL: What's this?
MAX: Put that away.
MICHAEL: No, I know this. This is from...
MAX: Not here, Michael.

MARIA: Alex, where have you been? We've been looking for you the last couple of days.
ALEX: Oh, well, I've been feeling, you know, a little rocky about...things.

ALEX: I've got two theories. One is that...uh, you and Liz have been brainwashed by a drug cult.
MARIA: Yes... ?
ALEX: And the other is...I'm trapped inside some extremely long, extremely weird nightmare.

ALEX: What actually makes you believe in any of this?

MAX: Because you would jump to some wild conclusion and go off and do something crazy without even telling us. I didn't think that was particularly wise with the FBI following us around.

MAX: Please, Michael. Leave it alone for now.
MICHAEL: Fine. I'll wait.

MICHAEL: Do you ever wonder what else he tells Liz that he doesn't tell us?
ISABEL: Oh, please. You're one to talk. What have you been whispering in Maria's ear lately?

ISABEL: Fine. I'm not an alien. Whatever you say.

ALEX: Why on earth would...excuse the phrase.

ALEX:
Why would you be sent here to begin with? I mean, what... what purpose could you possibly have?
ISABEL: To wipe out the world, one annoying teenager at a time.
ALEX: Sorry.

ISABEL: We've never been anything else but what you see. No green skin, no antennas.

ISABEL : I mean, haven't you ever felt different from everybody else? Like if you tried to reveal your true self to someone, they just... would never understand.
ALEX: Yeah.
ISABEL: Well, that's what it's like to be us.

LIZ:
"This is the best night of your life."
MAX: Is that really what it says?
LIZ: Well, it's better than "A broken clock is still right twice a day."

MAX: "Ask a girl to dance with you."
LIZ: Is that really what it says?
MAX: Depends on your answer.
LIZ: Yes.
MAX: Then that's really what it says.

MARIA: Max. Liz. You guys have to come back to the CrashDown. It's Michael.

ISABEL:
We're leaving now. Alex, you need a ride?
ALEX: What I really need is a sedative.

MARIA:
Are you kidding? We have to talk about it. We're the only two people in this world capable of having this conversation.
LIZ: That we know of.
MARIA: Don't complicate things, ok?

LIZ: And I got really dizzy. Did you get dizzy?
MARIA: I get dizzy just thinking about it.

LIZ:
Do you think that we feel like this just because of the fact that they're like...
MARIA: Oh, their non-human status.
LIZ: Right.
MARIA: What if they've like ruined it for us with anyone else?

MARIA: I'm teflon, babe.

MARIA : You and Max, ah. You guys have got that whole...look-into-my-eyes soul mate thing.

ISABEL:
Yeah, well, next you're gonna tell me that spacemen came here thousands of years ago to share all their secrets with cavemen, right?

MAX:
I want to know exactly what Riverdog did to him.
EDDIE: He wants nothing to do with you. You betrayed his trust, and that's something he won't forgive.

ALEX:
Hey, look, everything's going fine downstairs. I just wanted to come up...see if there's anything that I could do.
ISABEL: Yes, there's something you could do. You can get out of here, both of you! And let me take care of Michael. God, he needs me right now, not strangers.

MAX:
When he finally revealed himself, he was standing on this rock. Just like you'd expect from Michael. "Here I am. Deal with me."

MAX:
We knew we'd be safe as long as we stayed together.

RIVERDOG:
She'll find her own path. You take yours.

MICHAEL: Thank you, Maxwell. No more running.

MAX: We don't belong together.

MAX:
Sometimes you have to take a step back to see what's really going on. Maybe that's what we both really need to do right now... find our balance again.
LIZ: You know, Max, I thought that... I thought that we'd found it.
MAX: You don't know how much I wish that could be true.
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