Sister Maggie quotes from Daredevil

Maggie

When someone in need tries to push you away... You have to find the strength to hold on tighter.

Maggie

I don't know if I have the strength to get through this. He's so stubborn, full of fury and foolish pride. Please, watch over him? Keep him from making the same damn mistake that took you from us? Our son is too much like you, Jack.

Angry, sarcastic... and stubborn. Maybe you don't have any friends.

Matt

Someone once told me that warriors are meant to be alone. That caring for people would make me weak.

Maggie

Sounds like he needed to get laid.

Matt

[chuckles] Ha! That actually explains a lot. I mean he was right of course, I let people in, I paid the price. What is this?

Maggie

Dug those out of storage. You're probably the last one to read them.

Matt

My bible. Alright. I get the hint.

Maggie

And I get the sense that things are complicated with you and the 'Guy upstairs'

Matt

[laughs] No. Not at all. If anything I'd say where we finally stand with each other. [pauses] There's a man from the land of Uz.

Maggie

Book of Job.

Matt

The Book of Job. The story of God's perfect servant Job. He prayed everyday, falling to his knees on the ground, face in the dirt. Slaughtered 10 goats, one for each of his children, burned them at the altar in God's honour. All of God's soldiers, Job, he was the most loyal.

Maggie

I know the story Matthew.

Matt

Ah, well then you know what happens next. God murdered all ten of Job's children in cold blood. Scorched every inch of Job's land, lashed at his skin until it was covered in bloody welts. God rained shit and misery on the life of his most perfect servant and still... Job would not curse him. You know what I realised... Job was a pussy. You may say that was me Sister. I suffered willingly. I gave my, er, sweat and blood and skin, without complaint because I too believed that I was God's soldier. ... Well not anymore. I am what I do in the dark now, and bleed only for myself.

Matt

You weren't listening.

Maggie

I heard every spiteful word. You might hate God right now but the feeling is not mutual

Matt

I don't hate Him. I've just seen His true face is all. And for the record, I had friends, I had a life. I-- care about people and I'm choosing to let them believe that I'm gone because I am. I'm not Job. [sniffs] And I know my truth now.

Maggie

What 'truth'?

Matt

Well that, in front of this God, I'd rather die as the devil than live as Matt Murdock.

Matt

Last time we spoke, I confronted Father Lantom. I was angry. I'd change that if I could.

Maggie

If God allowed that, there'd be no future. Just people endlessly rewriting the past.

Matt

Yeah. I think he was trying to tell me that for a long time. His last words were, "Forgive us."

Maggie

Do you think that's possible?

Matt

He told me something, years ago, when this happened, that I never forgot. See, I was pretty angry at God and bitter towards his world. How could a loving God blind me? Why? Anyway, he told me... God's plan is like a beautiful tapestry. And the tragedy of being human is that we only get to see it from the back. With all the ragged threads and the muddy colors. And we only get a hint at the true beauty that would be revealed if we could see the whole pattern on the other side... as God does.