Sean Devine quotes from Mystic River (2003)

View Quote [after finding Katie's body] What the **** am I gonna tell him? 'Hey, Jimmy... ...God said you owed another marker. He came to collect.'

View Quote I'm tired of caring about some dead girl, and...there's just gonna be another one after her. Sending killers to jail is sending them where...they've been heading all their lives. The dead are still dead.

View Quote Whitey Powers: So the wife left you six months ago?
Sean Devine: So?
Whitey Powers: So Jenny Coughlin there with the body, voice and the cuffs... This girl, she makes gay guys rethink their orientation.
Sean Devine: So, what's your point?
Whitey Powers: The girl just wants to bed you, not wed you. You don't even blink? She wants to worship at the temple of Devine.

View Quote Jimmy Markum: Did you ever think about how one little choice could change a whole life? I heard Hitler's mother wanted to abort him. At the last minute, she changed her mind. See what I mean?
Sean Devine: What do you mean, Jimmy?
Jimmy Markum: What if you or I had gotten into that car instead of Dave Boyle?
Sean Devine: What car? You're losing me here.
Jimmy Markum: If I'd gotten into that car that day, my life would have been a different thing. My first wife, Marita, Katie's mother...she was a beautiful woman. Regal. As a lot of Latin women are, and she knew it. You had to have balls to go near her, and I did. Eighteen years old, the two of us. She was carrying Katie. Now, here's the thing, Sean. If I'd gotten into that car, I'd be a basket case. I never would have had the juice to go near her. And Katie never would have been born. And she never would have been murdered. You know?

View Quote Whitey Powers: Your pal Markum, the moment I laid eyes on him, I could tell he'd done time. They never lose that tension, it settles in their shoulders.
Sean Devine: He lost his daughter. That's what's in his shoulders.
Whitey Powers: No, that's in his stomach. The tension in his shoulders, that's prison.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Dave Boyle: Hey, you think I could get that Sprite, Sean?
Sean Devine: Sure.
Dave Boyle: Oh, I get it. You're the good cop. How about a meatball sub while you're at it?
Sean Devine: I ain't your bitch, Dave. Looks like you'll have to wait.
Dave Boyle: Yeah, but you're someone's bitch, aren't you, Sean?

View Quote 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 25 years ago, going up this street in the back of that car.
Sean Devine: Jimmy, what did you do?
Jimmy Markum: Thanks for finding my daughter's killers, Sean. If only you'd been a little faster.

View Quote Sean Devine: Sometimes I think... I think all three of us got in that car. And all of this is just a dream, you know?
Jimmy Markum: A dream, sure.
Sean Devine: In reality, we're still eleven year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives woulda been like if we'd escaped.
Jimmy Markum: Maybe you're right. Who the **** knows?