Mystic River Quotes (2003)
Sean Devine: The reality is we’re still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped.
Annabeth Markum: Celeste called looking for you. She was worried something might happen. She told me about Dave. Told me what she told you. What kind of wive says those things about her husband? And why’d she run to you?
Jimmy Markum: Why did not you call?
Annabeth Markum: Because it’s like I told the girls. Their daddy is a king. And a king knows what to do and does it.
Jimmy Markum: Admit what you did.
Brendan Harris: I know you can talk, so say you love me!
Michael Boyle: Dad, you just said the F Word.
[afterthe hockey ball rolls into the gutter]
Young Dave: I guess I don’t know my own strength.
Young Jimmy: [Sarcastically] You know, Dave, that must be it.
Sean Devine: Do you remember the man’s name?
Liquor Store Owner: Do I look senile to you?
Jimmy Markum: Shut up! It’s MY daughter! So shut up!
Jimmy Markum: This part… you do alone.
Jimmy Markum: Is that my daughter in there?
Sean Devine: Sometimes I think, I think all three of us got in that car…
Jimmy: We bury our sins here, Dave. We wash them clean.
Jimmy: How long?
Whitey Powers: How long what?
Jimmy: How long till you catch my daughter’s killer? I need to know.
Whitey Powers: The girl just wants to bed you; she don’t wanna wed you. You don’t even blink? She wants to worship at the temple of Sean Devine.
Dave Boyle: Maybe some day you forget what it’s like to be human and maybe then, it’s ok.
Sean Devine: So Jimmy, when was the last time you saw Dave?
Jimmy Markum: The last time I saw Dave…
Sean Devine: Yeah, Dave Boyle.
Jimmy Markum: Dave Boyle…
Sean Devine: Yeah Jimmy, Dave Boyle.
Jimmy Markum: That was twenty-five years ago, going up this street, in the back of that car.
Sean Devine: Jimmy, what did you do?
Jimmy Markum: [rubs Sean Devine on the shoulder]
Jimmy Markum: Thanks for finding my daughter’s killer, Sean. If only you’d been a little faster.
Sean Devine: You gonna send Celeste Boyle 500 a month too?
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