Winter's Bone 2010 quotes

Ree, I know losing Jessup leaves y'all hurting over there. I know it's a lot to handle.

Ree

We'll make do.

Sonya and me talked about it. We feel we could take Sonny off your hands. Not Ashlee, I don't reckon, but we could take Sonny.

Ree

You what?

We could take him and raise him up the rest of the way.

Ree

My ass you will.

We'd raise that boy way better than you and that nutjob mama of yours can. Maybe on down the line, we'd take Ashlee, too.

Ree

You go straight to hell, you son of a bitch. Sonny and Ashlee will die living in a cave with me and mama before they spend one night with you.

This right here is the last place me or anybody seen Jessup.

Ree

He never blew no lab before.

I know, but something must have jumped wrong this time.

Ree

He's known for never **** up labs or cooking bad batches. He's known for knowing what he's doing.

Well, you cook long enough, this is bound to happen.

Ree

You're sayin' dad's up there burnt to a crisp?

That's what I'm saying.

Ree

I'm going up there for a look.

No! That shit's poison. It'll rip the skin off your bones.

Ree

If dad's up there, I'm bringing him home to bury.

Gail

He said no.

Ree

Did you tell him I’d spring for gas?

Gail

I told him. He still won’t.

Ree

Why not?

Gail

He never says why not to me, Ree. He just says no.

Ree

Man, that’s so sad to hear you say he won’t let you do something, and then you don’t do it.

Gail

It’s different once you’re married.

Ree

It really must be. Cause you ain’t never used to eat no shit.

Little Arthur

You want a line?

Ree

No.

Little Arthur

You wanna blow some smoke?

Ree

No.

Little Arthur

Then I guess I got nothing for you. [He waves his hand to dismiss them] Go on!

Don’t tell nobody it was me who told you this, okay? But you’re going to have to go on up the hill and ask for a talk with Thump Milton. Now, I hope he’ll talk with you - he generally won’t.

Ree

That man, scares me way more than the rest.

Well, scared ain’t a bad way to be about him, neither, hon. He’s my own granpaw, and I still make damn sure I never piss him off none.

What are we ever gonna do with you, baby girl?

Ree

Kill me, I guess.

That idea has been said already. Got any others?

Ree

Help me. Ain’t nobody said that idea yet, have they?

I tried to help you some before, and this is what come of it.

Merab

He ain’t likely to have time for you, child.

Ree

I’ve got to talk to him. If he don’t know, nobody does.

Merab

Nope. Talking just causes witnesses. And he don’t want for any of those.

Ree

I’ll wait.

Merab

You need to get yourself on home.
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Merab

Thump knows you were in the valley, child. With Megan. And at Little Arthur’s. He knows what you want to ask, and he don’t want to hear it.

Ree

And that’s it? He ain’t gonna say nothing to me?

Merab

If you’re listening, child, you got your answer.

Ree

So, I guess come the nut-cutting, blood don’t really mean shit to the big man. Am I understanding that right?

Merab

Don’t you dare. Don’t! I want you to listen to me, child. You need to turn around, and get yourself on home. Don’t you make me come out here and tell you again!

Merab

You ain’t here for trouble, are you?

Ree

No, ma’am.

Merab

Cause one of my nephews is Buster Leroy, and didn’t he shoot your daddy one time?

Ree

Yes’m, but that ain’t got nothing to do with me. They settled all that theirselves, I think.

Merab

Shooting him likely settled it. What is it you want?

Ree

I got a real bad need to talk with Thump.

Merab

And he ain’t got no need to talk to you.

Ree

But I need to. I really, really got to ma’am. Please!

Ree

Some of our blood at least is the same. Ain’t that s’posed to mean somethin’ - isn’t that what is always said?

Merab

Ain’t you got no men could do this?

Ree

No, Ma’am, I don’t.

Ree

What I really can’t stand is how I feel so ashamed--for Dad.

Teardrop

Well, he loved y’all. That’s where he went weak. Lots of us can be tough, plenty tough enough, and do it for a long stretch, too.

Ree

But snitching.

Teardrop

For lots’n lots of years he wasn’t. He wasn’t, he wasn’t, and then one day he was.

Ree

You always have scared me.

Teardrop

That’s cause you’re smart.

Satterfield

I'm Mike Satterfield, A1 Bonds.

Ree

What is it you want?

Satterfield

We hold the bond on Jessup Dolly. Now he's a runner, it looks like.

Ree

Dad ain't no runner.

Satterfield

He didn't show for court. That makes him a runner.

Satterfield

Look, I don't want to kick your dad's ass, all right? I just want to keep the judge off mine.

Ree

Dad's dead. He didn't show for court 'cause he's lyin' dead somewhere.

Satterfield

When was the last time you saw him?

Ree

A couple weeks.

Satterfield

Who's he running around with? Where they all hanging out?

Ree

He doesn't tell me that stuff, sir.

Satterfield

Now, you know I got the legal right to go in there hunting the man, anyplace I want.

Ree

I know you'd be wasting your time and pissing me off. Jessup Dolly is dead. He’s lying in a crappy grave somewhere or become piles of shit in a hog pen. Maybe he’s been left out plain in the open, but wherever he is, he’s there dead.

Satterfield

And you know this how?

Ree

You must’ve heard what Dolly’s are, ain’t you, mister?

Satterfield

Well, I’ve heard what some are anyhow, and I have bonded a few.

Ree

I’m a Dolly, bred’n buttered, and that’s how I know Dad’s dead.

Satterfield

How old are you?

Ree

Seventeen.

Sheriff Baskin

I didn't shoot the other night cuz you were there in the truck. He never backed me down.

Ree

It looked to me like he did.

Sheriff Baskin

Don't you let me hear that's a story gettin' around.

Ree

I don't talk much about you, man. Ever.

Sonny

Are you wanting to leave us?

Ree

I'd be lost without the weight of you two on my back. I ain't goin' anywhere.

Sonny

Maybe they'll share some of that with us.

Ree

That could be.

Sonny

Maybe we should ask.

Ree

Never ask for what oughta be offered.

Teardrop

What Jessup done was against our ways, he knew it, I know it, and I ain’t raised no stink at all about whatever became of him. But she ain’t my brother. She’s about all the close family I got left, so I’ll be collecting her now and carrying her on out of here to home. That suit you, Thump?

You’re gonna stand for her, are you?

Teardrop

If she does wrong, you can put it on me.

She’s now yours to answer for.

Teardrop

This is a girl who ain’t gonna tell nobody nothing.