True Detective quotes

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.

Frank Semyon

That’s what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside, and inside of you is pure gold. I know that. Your father knew that too.

[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.

Ray Velcoro

[to his wife's rapist] If they don't give you life, I will have every inch of your flesh removed with a cheese grater, starting with your prick. I'll cut off your nose and your lips, your nuts too. And I'll make sure you live. And if they do give you life, I might do it anyway.

Frank Semyon

This is one off the bucket list - a Mexican standoff with actual Mexicans.

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.

Frank Semyon

In the midst of being gang-banged by forces unseen, I figured I'd drill myself a new orifice, go on and fuck myself for a change.

Frank Semyon

[To Mayor Chessani] Sober up, you might realize you’re getting fucked.

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

Everything is fucking.

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

Ray Velcoro

Three times. Now. He deserved better.

You never asked if I did it.

It doesn't matter. You're the most innocent person I've ever known.

[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.

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.

Honestly, Ray, nobody had any idea you were this competent.