Ray Velcoro quotes from True Detective

[upon Ani and Ray getting up to leave] Excuse me. You have one of the largest auras I've ever seen. Green and black. It's been taking up this whole room. I just...I had to say something. You must have had hundreds of lives.

Ray Velcoro

I don't think I could handle another one.

Ray Velcoro

What do you think "green and black" means?

I don’t know... you’re a mood ring?

Ray Velcoro

I would have been different.

Frank Semyon

Of all the lies people tell themselves, I bet that's the most common.

Ray Velcoro

I could have. You fucked me. I sold my soul for nothing!

Frank Semyon

If you were selling, it wasn't me buying.

Ray Velcoro

You wanted your hooks in a cop, so you used my wife's fucking tragedy to get me to kill somebody?

Frank Semyon

I didn't get you to do anything. I gave you a name and you made your choice, and that choice was in you before your wife or any of this other stuff. It was always there, waiting. Didn't you use that man to be what you were waiting to become? This thing, your wife, those are just excuses. You think you were Superman, previous? And hey, own it. You think I'd have done less? That's the kind of thing that keeps you out of Heaven. I don't want to go.

Ray Velcoro

Get in, and try not to stab anyone unless you have to.

A man of any size lays his hands on me, he's gonna bleed out in under a minute.

He was better than us. He saved our asses, twice.

Ray Velcoro

Three times. Now. He deserved better.

Ray Velcoro

I haven't been like this in a long time. Years.

I could tell.

Ray Velcoro

How?

It seemed like you were making up for lost time.