A character in Rectify
Played by J. Smith-Cameron
Rectify · 69 quotes
4th most-quoted character in Rectify: in 9 of its 69 quotes
Most scenes with: Amantha Holden (5), Daniel Holden (3)
I can't quite get a handle on the concept of time yet. There have been moments here today where I feel like I've only been gone a few weeks, and I'm still in high school. But mostly it seems like I was always there. So you may have to tell me, Mother.
Janet TalbotTell you?
When it's time for me to leave.
So what do we do, call the men in white coats? Are there still men in white coats?
Janet TalbotI hope not.
What about the men in white hats?
Janet TalbotThey never existed.
Deep down you're darker than I am, mother. Admit it.
Janet TalbotI don't think I want to do that, Amantha.
Well, I guess we just wait then.
Janet TalbotI think so. He'll be...
Up.
Janet TalbotI'm gonna start finishing my own sentences.
Please mother, don't take away one of my few pleasures.
Janet TalbotDid you jump the gun?
Don't I always?
Janet TalbotNo. You usually face the gun, Amantha. You always have, ever since you were a child.
Janet Talbot[in hospital] Everybody's been so nice here.
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.
[sitting in the car] It's mostly buttons and knobs now, there's no... everything's rounder.
Janet TalbotHmm. I never really thought about it before, but I think you're right.
More curves, less angles.
Janet Talbot[finding him in the garage] Hard to believe we used to park cars in here.
Yes, we are what we don't throw away.
Janet TalbotYou won't ever speak to him again the way you spoke to him this morning. I won't allow it.
You won't allow it?
Janet TalbotHe won't be treated like that in his own home.
Which is my home, too.
Janet TalbotIt was his first.
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 TalbotI'm sorry, honey. I really am.
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 TalbotNo, it doesn't. Quite the opposite.
Janet TalbotI 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?
I don't know.
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