True Detective quotes

Wayne Hays

Suppose somebody catches us.

We're old and confused.

Amelia Reardon

I'll take the hard truth over a nice lie any day.

You got a problem, little man?

No. No sir, no problem here.

Then put your fuckin' eyes somewhere else!

What it is, I'm just a fan of romance. Let me ask you a question. [looks at biker's girlfriend] Did she look like that before you rode her cross-country?

[standing up] What the fuck did you say, you little midget?

See, I always wondered, all these butt-faced pieces of garbage walkin' the earth, who's makin' 'em? I mean, what kind of Frankenstein monsters are out there copulatin' to create all these hunk of shit people in the world? Then I walk in this bar, and there's you two givin' me the answer I've been lookin' for my whole fuckin' life.

You done buckin' cowboy?

Thank God it was you hit me and not that woolly mammoth you're fuckin'!

Wayne Hays

They'll tank the case again, same as '80. I oughta quit.

Amelia Reardon

I thought you should quit for 10 years.

Wayne Hays

Why?

Amelia Reardon

Why? Why wouldn't I want you to quit? I don't think you realize this Wayne: You could have been good at just about anything. But what you think you are made you stuck.

Wayne Hays

I done pulled my head outta my ass in regards to you. Maybe you didn't mean it all the way, maybe it just happened, but you was workin' me. Always askin' questions, always talkin' about the case...

Amelia Reardon

That's not what I did. You know that's not what I did.

Wayne Hays

No I don't! But I just about decided that you don't really know what you're up to most of the time, do you? Bein' a good-lookin' woman like you are, I mean, people don't really expedct you to take responsibility. You're just like a pretty bird, flyin' around and shittin' on people's heads. Well, I don't need one of them! I was doin' real good without no head-shittin' birds around here!

Amelia Reardon

What if there's another story? What if something went unbroken? All this life, all this loss - what if it's really one long story that kept going and going until it healed itself? Wouldn't that be a story worth telling? Wouldn't that be a story worth hearing?