Daniel Holden quotes from Rectify

Donald, are you in A.A.?

Daniel Holden

Uh, no.

Well, thank God. We've lost so many to them.

Why on earth would you memorize Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"?

It's a short story, Florine.

I don't care if it was a haiku. It was sad enough to read. It'd be torture to memorize.

Daniel Holden

No, it was it was calming, actually.

Okay. More please.

Daniel Holden

I don't know why, exactly. Well, it was it was during a period of my life where I was having some difficulties dealing with the passage of time, in a traditional sense. And since Mr. Wolff's short story deals partly with the bending of time, well, in memorizing it, or in taking the action of memorizing it, I too was able to bend time, in a way. Or at least... experience... it differently.

Nicely defended, Donald.

Daniel Holden

Young man knows more than he lets on. What else do you know, Jared?

I don't know.

Daniel Holden

You don't know what else you know?

No.

Daniel Holden

It's a family disease. How did Gaines die?

Amantha Holden

Regret or cancer. I forget.

Janet Talbot

[finding him in the garage] Hard to believe we used to park cars in here.

Daniel Holden

Yes, we are what we don't throw away.

"Occupy Movement," pinpoint its failure.

Daniel Holden

Occupy what?

Exactly. All I know is revolution ain't never been fomented by poor people sitting on their ass in tents.

Daniel Holden

Uh, the Russian Revolution was started by peasants.

Peasants, huh?

Daniel Holden

I don't know if they lived in tents, though.

Tolstoy here talking about the Russian revolution like he was there.

Lezlie

Look, any man reads a newspaper knows Dan with a "D" Holden's overdue a little excess - a little indulgence of the senses. Some late-night, low-light intermingling and inter-tangling.

Daniel Holden

I hope you're suggesting girls.

Lezlie

Half of which at this party want to sleep with you. The other half are afraid of you, and half of them still want to sleep with you. It ain't even about luck at this point.

Daniel Holden

And that's how you reach enlightenment?

Lezlie

Who gives a shit? Come on, buddy. It's time to join the human race in all its permutations.

Daniel Holden

I don't know what to do.

Lezlie

That's 'cause you're stuck, Daniel. Surprised you ain't dead.

Daniel Holden

You're full of shit, Lezley.

Lezlie

At least I'm okay with it. You okay with what you are?

Lezlie

I believe forces brought you out to my establishment in search of a stove for your mama's birthday. Same forces will tell you where to go next if you listen.

Daniel Holden

Sometimes it's hard to hear.

Lezlie

Yeah. Well, we usually hear better when we're in pain. But, damn, if you ain't got a high threshold. See you around the fringes, buddy...

Trey Willis

Everything that is good between men and women was written in mud. And butter. And barbecue sauce. You know?

Daniel Holden

No.

Tawney Talbot

I can't remember the last time I used a pay phone. The last time I saw one, even.

Daniel Holden

They're hard to find. But it felt good to use a telephone that wasn't smarter than me.

Daniel Holden

You're afraid, Wendall.

Shit, boy. I ain't scared of nothing.

Daniel Holden

I've never realized it 'til just now.

What am I afraid of?

Daniel Holden

Silence.

Just 'cause a man likes to talk don't mean he's afraid.

Daniel Holden

Ah, there's more than one kind of silence. In the real world you can live in denial, but not in here, not with your death on the docket. How long you got left, Wendall? I bet you already know. I bet you're counting the days. And I bet you're terrified.

Do you think you're above it, Holden? Hmm? We ain't that different, you and me, two sides of the same coin.

Daniel Holden

We're not even the same currency.

Daniel Holden

Why did you want me to get saved, Tawney?

Tawney Talbot

'Cause I wanted you to have salvation. I wanted you to know peace, I still want that for you.

Daniel Holden

And do you know peace, Tawney?

Tawney Talbot

Sometimes.

Daniel Holden

And you think that peace comes from God?

Tawney Talbot

I know it doesn't come from ourselves.

Daniel Holden

Do you believe that, or do you have to believe that because otherwise life would be intolerable for you?

Tawney Talbot

I believe that because it's true.

Daniel Holden

Or is it true because you believe it?

Tawney Talbot

Yes, both I guess.

Daniel Holden

So if I believe there is no God, then there is no God.

Tawney Talbot

It's not the same thing.

Daniel Holden

Why not?

Tawney Talbot

'Cause you're just lost, Daniel.

Daniel Holden

Something we can agree upon.

Daniel Holden

[in prison visiting room] How's the gas company?

Amantha Holden

They promoted me.

Daniel Holden

They did?

Amantha Holden

Senior customer-service specialist. Got my own cubicle and everything.

Daniel Holden

Just like me.

Daniel Holden

I hurt him, humiliated him, something I learned in prison, something to make a man feel powerless. It wasn't rape, but it was violent. And...

Tawney Talbot

...and what?

Daniel Holden

Unhinged.

Amantha Holden

I didn't just want to get you out, Daniel. I wanted to clear your name. Our name. And you can say that people are gonna think what they're gonna think, but there is a difference. There is a difference.

Daniel Holden

Then change your name, Amantha.