The Broken Circle Breakdown Quotes

  • Didier Bontinck: Bluegrass, that is Country in its purest form.

  • Elise Vandevelde: Life is NOT generous.

  • Didier Bontinck: I am an ape. And I'm afraid.

  • [last lines]

    Didier Bontinck: Will you say hello to Maybelle for me?

  • Elise Vandevelde: I always knew. That it was too good to be true. That it couldn't last. That life isn't like that, life isn't generous. You mustn't love someone. You mustn't become attached to someone. Life begrudges you that. It takes everything away from you and it laughs in your face. It betrays you.

  • Didier Bontinck: Bye bye, birdie.

    Maybelle: Bye bye, birdie.

    Didier Bontinck: I love you.

    Maybelle: I love you too.

    Didier Bontinck: Clever girl.

  • Elise Vandevelde: If I want to believe that Maybelle is a star up in the sky, I will. If I want to believe she's a bird that perches on our window sill, or a butterfly that sits on my shoulder or a bloody frog that...

    Didier Bontinck: Maybelle is dead, sweetheart. She's dead. She's gone, she's not here anymore.But we are still here. I'm still here. We have to carry on together.

  • Didier Bontinck: [preaching] Well, still one god to go! Still one god to go! Still one god to go.