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1 " You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key. "
― Nic Pizzolatto , Galveston
2 " [The Villagers tell Chris they collected everything of value in their village to hire gunmen]Chris Adams: I have been paid a lot for my work, but never everything. "
― Nic Pizzolatto
3 " Martin Hart: Can I ask you something? You're a Christian, yeah? Rustin Cohle: No. Martin Hart: Well, whadaya got the cross for, in your apartment? Rustin Cohle: It's a form of meditation. Martin Hart: How's that? Rustin Cohle: I contemplate the moment in the garden; the idea of allowing your own crucifixion. "
4 " I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age, you know who you are. Now, I live in a little room out in the country behind a bar... work four nights a week... in between I drink. And there ain't nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a... victory in that. "
5 " Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. "
6 " When it worked, reading could take away the burden of time. "
7 " We come here to tell stories so that we can manage the past without being swallowed by it. "
8 " I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit. "
9 " Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better. "
10 " I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too. "
11 " You’re here because it’s somewhere. Dogs pant in the streets. Beer won’t stay cold. The last new song you liked came out a long, long time ago, and the radio never plays it anymore. "
12 " There’s no getting out alive, but you hope to avoid a deadline. "
13 " Something passed close to me then, a feeling or piece of knowledge, but I couldn't quite get it. A sense of something I'd once known or felt, a memory that wouldn't come into the light. I kept reaching, but I couldn't grasp the thing.It felt near, though. "
14 " The past isn't real. "
15 " I suppose you have to be very careful how you use your memories. "
16 " You’re born and forty years later you hobble out a bar, startled by your own aches. Nobody knows you. You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key. So you head toward the last thing you have left to lose, with no real idea what you’re going to do with it. "
17 " What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him cruel. "
18 " When I read I got involved in the words and what they were saying so that I didn't measure the passing of time in typical ways. I was surprised to learn that there was this freedom made of nothing but words. Then I felt like I had missed some crucial point, a long time ago. "
19 " I remember a buddy of mine once telling me that every woman you loved was a mother and sister you didn't have, at once, and that what you were always really looking for was the female part of yourself, your female animal or something. This guy could get away with saying something like that because he was a junkie and read books. "
20 " Still, there was a bored sadness to her. And a resignation I’d seen on faces my whole life—people giving up, crossing over to that place without struggle—and I wanted to alter that. "
