Melanie Stryder Quotes in The Host (2013)

Wanderer/Wanda: Why is he looking at you?

Melanie Stryder: Why are you looking at him?

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?

Melanie Stryder: It's... crowded.

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.

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

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

Melanie Stryder: We could be taken at any moment. We only have this. Now.

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]

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.