Winter's Bone Quotes

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.

Sonny: [on gutting a squirrel] Do we eat these parts?

Ree: [grimly] Not yet...

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

Teardrop: Shut up.

Victoria: 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.

[first lines]

Ree: [waking her] Ashlee Dawn...

Ashlee: Hmmm?

[to her brother]

Ashlee: Wake up...

Teardrop: Those pills

[drugs]

Teardrop: helping your mama's mood any?

Ree: She keeps takin' 'em. But they aint workin'.

Ree: This fella with the money have a name?

Satterfield: Shit no. Probably left that in his other pants.

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

Ree: Kill me I guess.

Megan: That idea's been said already. Got any others?

Ree: Help me. Nobody's said that idea yet, have they?

Ree: What I really can't stand is the way I feel ashamed... for dad.

Teardrop: Well, he loved y'all. That's where he went weak.

Ree: You always have scared me.

Teardrop: That's cuz you're smart.

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.

[last lines]

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.

Ashlee: [wrestles up the banjo and starts plucking]

Gail: [after asking her husband to let her use his truck] 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, it's so sad to hear you say he won't let you do somethin' 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.

Ree: He might be hangin' around with Little Arthur and them. You think?

Teardrop: You don't wanna go around Little Arthur's askin' them people about anything they ain't offered to talk about. That's a real good way to end up et by hogs... or wishin' you was.

Merab: One of my nephews is Buster Leroy. Didn't he shoot your daddy one time?

Ree: Yes, but that's got nothin' to do with me. They settle that stuff themselves, don't they?

Merab: Shootin' him likely settled it.

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

Ree: We'll make do.

Blond Milton: 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?

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

Ree: My ass you will.

Blond Milton: 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.

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

Ree: He never blew no lab before.

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

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

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

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

Blond Milton: That's what I'm saying.

Ree: [starting to climb out of the truck] I'm going up there for a look.

Blond Milton: [pulling her back] 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.

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 to 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 have heard what Dollys 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, bread and buttered, and that's how I know dad's dead.

Ree: You always have scared me.

Teardrop: That's 'cause you're smart.

Ree: He ain't gon' say nothing to me?

Merab: If you're listening, child, you got your answer.

Merab: [after Ree makes a crass remark, threateningly] Don't you dare. Don't! I want you to listen to me, child. You need to turn around and get yourself on home.

[she begins to leave]

Merab: Don't you make me come out here and tell you again!