Amantha Holden quotes from Rectify

Daniel Holden

Thank you, Amantha, for everything.

Amantha Holden

You're quite welcome, brother. Anytime.

Daniel Holden

We're lost, aren't we?

Amantha Holden

Totally.

Amantha Holden

So what do we do, call the men in white coats? Are there still men in white coats?

Janet Talbot

I hope not.

Amantha Holden

What about the men in white hats?

Janet Talbot

They never existed.

Amantha Holden

Deep down you're darker than I am, mother. Admit it.

Janet Talbot

I don't think I want to do that, Amantha.

Amantha Holden

Well, I guess we just wait then.

Janet Talbot

I think so. He'll be...

Amantha Holden

Up.

Janet Talbot

I'm gonna start finishing my own sentences.

Amantha Holden

Please mother, don't take away one of my few pleasures.

Janet Talbot

Did you jump the gun?

Amantha Holden

Don't I always?

Janet Talbot

No. You usually face the gun, Amantha. You always have, ever since you were a child.

Tawney Talbot

How is he?

Amantha Holden

Not good. Thanks for asking...

Tawney Talbot

Is there anything I can do?

Amantha Holden

You wouldn't be a brain surgeon by any chance?

Janet Talbot

[in hospital] Everybody's been so nice here.

Amantha Holden

It's because we're not in Paulie, mother. You'll notice a difference in tone sometimes when people don't wish you were dead.

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.

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.

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.

[to Amantha] First your brother shows up at Mr. Gaines' funeral rambling about God knows what, and now here you are acting like... I know you have to live your life. I understand that. I know it's not your fault, the position you're in. But could you go do it somewhere else, please? So that we don't have to think about Hanna and what happened to her that night?

Jon Stern

How old were you then? Five? Eight?

Amantha Holden

Jon, please.

Jon Stern

No. Really.

I was old enough.

Jon Stern

Old enough? For what? To listen to what your parents told you and believe it because they said it was true? Afraid to think for yourself. Scared to look at all the facts. And for what? So you'd never have to admit to yourself that you might be wrong? Could you go do that somewhere else? Please.

Jon Stern

Maybe Daniel will just fire me.

Amantha Holden

He won't fire you. You're free.

Jon Stern

Well, at least he's getting his money's worth.

Amantha Holden

As long as I can remember, I've had to follow you around, mom. Literally. Couldn't have started out that way. You must have come to me at some point, when I was in my crib. And even when I got you to stop and look at me, to acknowledge my existence, I still couldn't tell what you were thinking. Or feeling. So I always felt like I had to guess, or fill in the blanks, or push for some clue, until you would just get mad at me.

Janet Talbot

I'm sorry, honey. I really am.

Amantha Holden

And I know that's your nature, mom. Just like it's Daniel's to be so... [sighs] maddeningly private. But because it's not my nature, or because I don't always read between the lines, or understand that language, or because I want people to speak to me in my language sometimes, that does not make me the bad guy.

Janet Talbot

No, it doesn't. Quite the opposite.

Janet Talbot

I have lived in this world for some time, Amantha, and one thing I have learned it is not fair, and it is not just. The world is absurd. And if I could just have him, and you, and Jared, and my family... [sighs] What else is there?

Amantha Holden

I don't know.

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.

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.