Quake/Quote


 * Main article: Skye

Spoken by Skye
"You can't walk away from this. With great power comes.... a ton of weird crap you are not prepared to deal with."

- Skye to Michael Peterson

Spoken about Skye
"She's a groupie, all the hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D., tracking powers. She might as well be one of those sweaty Cosplay characters crowding around Stark tower."

- Grant Ward about Skye

Dialogue
"I'm not exactly a team player." "We're not exactly a team."

- Skye and Phil Coulson

Spoken about Skye
"That's the thing about Skye. What I told her shattered her world. Her lifelong search lead to stories of murder and now it's too difficult to continue. Her search is over. Her story ends here. But you know what she said?" "Tell me." "She said no. Her story started here. Her whole life, she thought she wasn't wanted. That she didn't belong, that every family that took her in didn't want her to stay. Didn't care. But all that time, it was S.H.I.E.L.D. protecting her. Looking after her. That's what she took away from the story. Not the family she'll never have, but the one she's always had. Here I am telling her something that could destroy her faith in humanity, and somehow she manages to repair a little piece of mind. The world is full of evil and lies and pain and death, and you can't hide from it. You can only face it. The question is, when you do, how do you respond? Who do you become?"

- Phil Coulson telling Melinda May how Skye responded when he told her about he past

"She wasn't the first one to die. We were headed into the Hunan Province in China. Senior agent had called in an 0-8-4." "An object of unknown origin. We dealt with those before." "He said the entire village had died trying to protect this one. Avery and I were fresh out of the Academy. There were five of us running the back end until we lost communication with the first team. We had been searching. Found the senior agent up under a bridge. He managed to escape with a gunshot wound to the neck, but he bled out. He was still holding on to the 0-8-4. Poor thing was covered in blood. We thought she was dead too, but she was just asleep in a dead agents arms." "Wait, the baby? The girl was the 0-8-4?" "She had powers or something. We never witnessed it. The five of us helicoptered the kid off. Headed home. After we landed, we started getting crossed off." "Executed." "Tortured. Heads bashed in. Then when it came down to Avery and I, we realized that the only way to keep our people and the kid from being hunted-" "Was to erase her from existence." "Avery was smart. She used to lead agents credentials to fake a level 8 clearance. She'd set up a nearly invisible protocol. The foster system was ordered to move the kid around every few months." "But they still got to Avery." "She died protecting that secret." "And you left town." "I left everything. I mean whoever killed that kid's family and all those agents was a force to be recon with."

- Richard Lumley and Phil Coulson discussing Skye's past

Dialogue
"It's strategic." "It's adorable." "The Tin Man has a heart after all."

- Grant Ward, Jemma Simmons, and Skye