Mystic River Quotes

Jimmy : How long?
Whitey Powers : How long what?
Jimmy : How long till you catch my daughter's killer? I need to know.

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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.

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Jimmy : [ after Dave has told him a story about a boy being molested filled with inconsistency ] One more time... about the boy, and I will cut you the fuck open!

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Sean Devine : [ on the phone with Lauren ] Okay. "Hey Sean, how was your day?" Oh me? I'm tired of wishing things made sense. I'm tired of caring about some dead girl, and there's just gonna be another one after her. Sending killers to jail is just sending them where they've been heading all their dumb, pathetic lives. The dead are still dead.

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[ first lines ]
Radio Announcer #1 : ...before the end of the season last year, and then re-injured it in spring training on a terrific game-saving play. You know, I was talking with...
Sean's Father : What time is this going on?
Jimmy's Father : 7: 30 is the pre-game.
Sean's Father : Who'd you say was pitching tonight?
Jimmy's Father : Tiant's pitching.
Sean's Father : Goddamn Cuban, man. He can hurl it.
Jimmy's Father : I'd hate to be facing him.

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Whitey Powers : The moment I laid eyes on him, I could tell he'd done time. They never loose it you know. That tension, it settles up around their shoulders.
Sean Devine : He just lost his daughter, maybe that's what's settled in his shoulders.
Whitey Powers : No, that's in his stomach. The tension in his shoulders, that's prison.

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Jimmy : I remember, I was more afraid of my little daughter than I ever was of being in prison.

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Brendan Harris : I loved her so much. I'm never gonna feel that again. It doesn't happen twice.
Sean Devine : Doesn't happen once most times.

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Dave : Neighborhood needs a fucking crime wave. Get property values where they belong.

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[ last lines ]
Annabeth Markum : Their daddy's a king. And a king knows what to do and *does* it. Even when it's hard. And their daddy will do whatever he has to for those he loves. And that's all that matters. Because everyone is weak, Jimmy. Everyone but us. We will never be weak. And you, you could rule this town. And after Jimmy, let's take the girls down to the parade. Katie would like that.

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