Minders Quotes

“I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie...Someone else's life.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“Ford,” she whispered to him. “I promise I’ll leave you alone, never see you again. Just please, help me get you home.”
Still nothing.
“Ford!” She sat up, her hands gripping his shoulders, putting everything she had into it, all her anger and fear and longing and hope and love. “Ford Winter!”
So softly she almost missed it, he whispered, “Present.”
She laughed through her tears and hugged him. “Good boy,” she said.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You’re going to break my heart, Ford Winter, she thought.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“Ford! Sadie shouted sharply.
His eyes snapped open and he called “Present!” like a student waking up in class.
It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, “Present!”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think?
Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking...”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“How do you keep doing that, Ford Winter? she wanted to ask. Have me swallowing back a lump in my throat one minute... And rolling my eyes the next.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“Ford kept his hands on his head. “Is that really necessary? I was arrested by Serenity Services a week ago, and they didn’t even cuff me.”
The argument that you don’t need cuffs because you were arrested without them a week ago is a winner, Sadie thought.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders

“Say 'Not Yet.' It's best to leave your options open.”
― Michele Jaffe, Minders