“The things I did, the things I've seen, it becomes who you are. You can't just go home and scrub it off. The only way I could protect you was to walk away. Forget about you and your mom. I wanted a better life for you than the one I chose for myself.”

Liam Neeson - Jimmy Conlon

“I have given the piano back to you. I've had enough. The arrangement is making you a whore, and me wretched. I want you to care for me. But you can't. It's yours, leave. Go on, go.”

Harvey Keitel - Baines

“- Shuck: I wouldn't make a lot of noise if I was you. You don't want to alert Stoney of your leaving.
- Charles: As if he would care if I left.
- Shuck: What makes you think he don't care?
- Charles: I don't know... What would you call no contact for nine years?
- Shuck: I'd call it being a man of few words.”
Kris Kristofferson - Shuck
Joseph Mazzello - Charles

“- Ulee Jackson: Once you're better, I don't care what you do. But you're not moving until all that poison's out of your body. Even if only for a day.
- Helen Jackson: Oh, man. You always think you know, don't you?
- Ulee Jackson: Well, I know better than to run from responsibility.”
Peter Fonda - Ulee Jackson
Christine Dunford - Helen Jackson

“- Helen Jackson: There's all kinds of running, Ulee. Your body might have stuck around, and that lousy bully part of your mind, but your heart took off a long time ago.
- Ulee Jackson: Oh, you can't say that. That's not true.
- Helen Jackson: Maybe you're right. Maybe you never cared anything about anybody. Year after year, nothing touches Ulee!”
Christine Dunford - Helen Jackson
Peter Fonda - Ulee Jackson