Tara Knowles quotes from Sons of Anarchy

Tara

[opens the envelope to see the letters replaced with blank sheets of paper presumably done by Gemma] You duplicitous bitch!

Gemma

Jax is in a real strange place. He doesn't need any outside voices in his head. Stay clear of him.

Tara

We're not 19 years old anymore. You can't dictate what he does, who he sees-

Gemma

I'm his mother, and until I am dead and cold, I am going to do anything I have to do to protect him.

Tara

What exactly is it you're hoping to find? Just wondering what digging up dirt on old girlfriends gets you?

Stahl

Is that what Kohn liked? Your inquisitive nature? You know, I understand that he never got off the plane in Chicago. He's M.I.A. Threw away his career for love. I just hope you're not doing the same, Doctor.

Jax

Do you love me? It's a simple question.

Tara

It's not a simple answer.

Jax

I know.

Jax

Is something wrong?

Tara

With Abel leaving, I realized it's not just you. You have a son. We need to think about what we're doing.

Jax

You really want to talk about this, huh? Cause the one upside of Wendy, she was usually too wasted for relationship chats.

Tara

Well, I'm painfully sober.

Tara

Nothing is okay. Like, the last few weeks, I tried to follow your lead. You know, find some kind of compartment to put all this stuff in. But I just can't. I don't sleep. I'm more scared now than I ever was. I'm scared of getting caught. I'm scared of not getting caught. We got away with murder. What does that make me?

Jax

A survivor.

Tara

I think you're a good man with a big heart. I believe you try to do as much good as you can, but you live a life I don't think I'll ever really understand.

Jax

Don't you get tired of it? Running

Tara

I'm not running. I'm just being realistic, Jax.

Jax

Call it whatever you want. Your life is a series of hit-and-runs. The minute someone makes you feel uncomfortable, tests your loyalty, little Tara packs her bags and hits the road. Well, I guess you got what you wanted from me, right? Used me to do your dirty work.

Tara

That's not fair.

Jax

Not fair? You wanna know how many women I've slept with over the last 10 years?

Tara

Don't do this…

Jax

Hundreds! Maybe more, I don't know. I barely see their faces. I married Wendy because I was lonely. Because I got tired of the endless disconnect. It was just a sad time-out. Because when I'm inside someone, there's only one face I see. When you came home, it was like some kind of sign to me. Like my past coming around to give me another shot to do this different; better. And now that chance is running back to Chicago.

Tara

You know why I run away from shit all the time? Cause I don't trust anyone. If I'm gonna stay, I need to know the truth.

Jax

I tell you the truth.

Tara

Not just what you think I can handle. I need all of it. It's the only way I'll know if I can do this.

Jax

The Jungle

Tara

Know it?

Jax

Almost turned me vegan.

Tara

This is really twisted but im actually craving a big steak.

Jax

I got a Porterhouse right here for you, baby.

Tara

You’re a class act, Teller

Jax

Give me a kiss.

Tara

Here?

Jax

Just us carnivores.

Tara

You keep saying you want to change things, but you keep repeating old behavior. You can't have it both ways.

Jax

Is there anything you love so much, you'd protect it, no matter the cost; the damage it did to you?

Tara

Yeah. Yeah, a child.

Jax

Yeah. That's how I feel about this club. Since I was five Tara, all I've ever wanted was a Harley and a cut. Change won't happen quick, or without blood, but it'll happen. It has to.

Tara

How do you fix SAMCRO if you're not a part of it?

Jax

I can't do what I need to do with [Clay] in place. I ride independently for a few years, then wait for him to step down.

Tara

A few years? We barely made it through the last few months.

Gemma

Clay's never gonna... want to be inside something that's been ripped up like me.

Tara

Jesus Christ, Gemma, Clay loves you.

Gemma

Love don't mean shit. Men need to own their pussy. His has been violated. He'll find another. It's what they do.

Tara

I pity you. You walk around here with your little administrative degree, pretending like you know medicine. You're just a cheap suit too stupid and lazy to get into med school. So now you compensate by making the healers jump through hoops.

Margaret

Well, I guess someone's true colors have finally bled through. I guess you and that biker whore you travel with…

Tara

[grabs Margaret by the throat] How dare you. You don't know her. You don't know any of them.

Margaret

Oh my God! You hit me. You're finished. I'm calling security. This is assault.

Tara

No. [punches Margaret] That's assault.

Jax

I'm sorry this happened. I had no right asking you for this.

Tara

Asking me for what?

Jax

Wanting you to stay be part of what I am; I didn't think it through. Obviously, I do that, I don't think s*** through and what it might do to other people.

Tara

I'm not other people.

Jax

You should have gone back to Chicago. That s*** that happened with Kohn should have been the end.

Tara

You're not making sense.

Jax

This has to be the end. You got to get out of Charming, away from me.

Tara

I didn't come back to Charming because I was afraid of Kohn. And I didn't stay because of what we did to him.

Jax

Doesn't matter now.

Tara

When Donna was killed, those things you said to me in the hospital about my life being a series of hit and runs, that my face was the only one you saw.

Jax

I shouldn't have said that.

Tara

It was the truth. I have created this very serious life for myself. And when I'm inside it, I barely know myself. I have these moments sometimes in the middle of my surgeries when suddenly I'm aware of my hands, you know, doing these extraordinary things. And I think 'Whose hands are these? What am I doing here?'When I'm with you, I never ask that question.

Jax

I'm not the answer. Look at me, look at this.

Tara

I'm always looking at it. My brain never stops. Why am I here? Should I be here? Am I afraid to stay, afraid to go, afraid to be a mother? It's endless. I drive myself crazy.

Jax

None of that matters.

Tara

I know. That's become so clear to me. The noise doesn't matter. We don't know who we are until we're connected to someone else. We're just better human beings when we're with the person we're supposed to be with. I wasn't supposed to leave. I belong here.