Teardrop quotes from Winter's Bone (2010)

Teardrop

You ought not do that. Don’t go running after Jessup. Show or don’t show that choice is up to the one going to jail, not you.

Ree

You know where he’s at, don’t you?

Teardrop

Where a man’s at ain’t necessarily for you to know neither.

Ree

But you do...

Teardrop

I ain’t seen him.

Ree

Could be running around with Little Arthur and them, you think?

Teardrop

Don’t you ever go down around Little Arthur’s asking them people about shit they ain’t offering to talk about. That’s a real good way to end up et by hogs, or wishing you was.

Ree

We’re all related ain’t we?

Teardrop

Our relations get watered kinda thin between here and Little Arthur’s.

You know all those people, Teardrop. You could ask.

Teardrop

Shut up.

None of them’s gonna be in a great big hurry to tangle with you.

Teardrop

I said shut up once already with my mouth.

Ree

Jesus, Dad’s your only brother.

Teardrop

You think I forgot that? Hmm? Jessup and me run together for coming on forty years but I don’t know where he’s at, and I ain’t going to go around asking after him neither.

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.

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.