Daniel Holden quotes from Rectify

Tawney Talbot

I can see and feel God in all things.

Daniel Holden

Like Thomas Aquinas.

Tawney Talbot

I don't know much about him.

Daniel Holden

He felt that God revealed himself in nature.

Tawney Talbot

Yes, yes, that's what I feel, in a sense.

Daniel Holden

He believed that supernatural revelation is faith, and natural revelation is reason, and the two are not contradictory, but complementary.

Tawney Talbot

Could you ever accept Christ into your heart?

Daniel Holden

I don't think Buddha would mind making room, or Confucius. Nietzsche might grumble.

Daniel Holden

It does something to you, not to be touched in any positive way for so long. You begin to vacillate between being repelled by touch, and seeking it out in any form, even the most negative.

Tawney Talbot

I'm so sorry.

Daniel Holden

Out here, you... you're the only touch that soothed me.

Hey, I know you. So, where you headed?

Daniel Holden

I don't know. I'm not sure.

Not all who wander are lost. Yeah. If you get things figured out, you reckon you could help me with a little chore?

Daniel Holden

I don't mind.

Can-do attitude...

Kerwin Whitman

It's weird, isn't it?

Daniel Holden

What is?

Kerwin Whitman

That I know exactly when I gonna die.

Daniel Holden

It's very sad, Kerwin.

Kerwin Whitman

It has it's pluses. You can grieve your own death.

I just like to have something to balance out the farce, you know?

Daniel Holden

I think farcing may be sadder.

God, you're right, it's all sad.

Daniel Holden

And farcical.

Daniel Holden

You're elusive, Chet.

That's an under-appreciated skill.

Daniel Holden

So it can be developed?

I think so. Probably helps to have a little bit of a knack for it first.

Jon Stern

You doing okay? With things?

Daniel Holden

I don't think so, Jon. I don't think so.

Jon Stern

That's not... that's normal.

Daniel Holden

What is?

Jon Stern

Not doing okay - considering everything.

Kerwin Whitman

What do you say to a little girl who you... What do you say?

Daniel Holden

Maybe you just let her know who you are now, Kerwin. Who you've become.

Kerwin Whitman

That's the thing, dude, it's getting hard to remember who I am.

Kerwin Whitman

You can come here anytime you want?

Daniel Holden

In theory, yeah.

Kerwin Whitman

All I'm sayin'. [indicating the beauty surrounding]

Daniel Holden

Yeah.

Kerwin Whitman

All I'm sayin', D. [walking into the woods] All I'm sayin'. All I'm sayin'...

Amantha Holden

You do windows now?

Daniel Holden

Side effect of the coma.

Amantha Holden

Doctor didn't mention that as a possibility.

Daniel Holden

[grunts] It's rare.

Daniel Holden

[sitting in the car] It's mostly buttons and knobs now, there's no... everything's rounder.

Janet Talbot

Hmm. I never really thought about it before, but I think you're right.

Daniel Holden

More curves, less angles.

Amantha Holden

[voice breaking] I thought we were gonna lose you.

Daniel Holden

No crying, sister.

Amantha Holden

Sorry.

Daniel Holden

Emotion is for losers.

[joining him in front of a painting] What do you think?

Daniel Holden

What do I think? Well, I think I have looked at this painting for so long in a in a book that somehow my brain has trivialized it. And, uh, now as I stand here in front of the real thing, I feel, if anything, disappointment.

Oh, that's too bad.

Daniel Holden

Well, not at the painting itself. More at my brain, I guess.

I think the brain's afraid of being in a state of constant wonder. It's for safety reasons or something.

Daniel Holden

I suppose it's inevitable.

Usually by the time we're four.

Daniel Holden

Then there's the the issue of great expectations.

Something the brain doesn't seem the least bit interested in protecting us from.

Daniel Holden

[chuckles] No.

Well, I think we should reinstate wonder, banish expectation.

Daniel Holden

I concur.

Daniel Holden

Mrs. Whitman?

Yes, Daniel.

Daniel Holden

Thank you for, um well, for Kerwin. He was a good person, and he was my friend. I miss him every day.