Antigone Bezzarides quotes from True Detective

Talk to me like that again, you’re going to need a little baggie to carry your teeth home

He put his hands on me wrong... I've been waiting my whole life for that. I think I even went looking... That's my whole life.

[discussing her rape] Maybe he gave me something. Maybe I blocked it out. It's a black hole, an empty space, those four days. And what I remembered when I got... I got in the car. He didn't force me. He didn't even get near me. He called me pretty. I remember... I remember it made me feel... I liked... I got in a van with a stranger. Every time I remember that feeling, that pride, I get sick to my stomach. I could lie to myself, but I felt proud. I was proud that he thought I was pretty. Makes me sick.

These facts were paid for in blood, so honor that. I don’t know if it will make any difference, but it should, because we deserve a better world.

I am not comfortable imposing my will on anyone and I haven't been since 1978.

Not even to stop them walking into a river.

Yes, not even then. And if your mother's flair for drama had been more present in her acting, she might have gone on to great things. [pause] These totems, they watch over departed spirits. I've always felt your mother among them.

You won't even own it a little.

She abandoned the two of you, I didn't. You should spend less time in a state of resistance making up problems for yourself.

What does that mean?

A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values. Meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?

Talk to your daughter, prick. Help her.

I just did.

Ray Velcoro

Somebody was looking for something. Explains the torture.

Maybe. [glancing at Caspere's pornographic art] Guy thought about fucking a lot.

Ray Velcoro

What’s with all the knives?

Could you do this job if everyone you encountered could physically overpower you? Forget police work, no man could walk around like that without going nuts.

The fundamental difference between the sexes is that one of them can kill the other with their bare hands.

Ray Velcoro

Well, just so you know, I support feminism, mostly by having body image issues.

I'm commanding officer of this detail. You call me when you got something.

Ray Velcoro

Well, I got shot. That's something. I found our murder scene. That's something else.

[of her and Ani's mother] I have this memory of her, in the sand.

Big dresses.

Yeah. Polishing that driftwood 'til it shined like steel or something.

I lost her in the light. Light off the water.

Why do these memories stay so vivid? I can't even remember stuff from last week.

Those moments, they stare back at you. You don't remember them, they remember you. Turn around, there they are, staring.

[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?

Detective Bezzarides, how do you feel about your actions?

[to Ani] Can I just ask, what the fuck are you doing here? I mean, who wouldn't want her sexually harassing you, am I right?

See, right there. That kind of thing could be considered inappropriate.

What? It's a compliment.

It's alright, it's alright. I understand. Uh, I dunno. I mean, what can I say? [deadpan] I just really like big dicks. It's not just length. Everybody's always talking length, and it's fine, but it's girth, too. I wanna have trouble handcuffing the thing.

Uh... I'm not sure... that might be taken...

What? I thought you wanted me to share.

Hey man, let her share!

[at a crime scene] Somebody died here.

Somebody dies every second of the day, and they're not all lucky enough to do it in California.

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.

Maybe, and this is just a thought, you were put on this Earth for more than fucking.

Everything is fucking.