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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.

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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.

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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.

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Gail: [about borrowing her husband's 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, that’s so sad to hear you say he won’t let you do something, 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.

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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. 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. Ree: Jesus, Dad’s your only brother. Teardrop: You think I forgot that? Hmm? Jessup and me run together for coming on forty years

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Little Arthur: You want a line? Ree: No. Little Arthur: You wanna blow some smoke? Ree: No. Little Arthur: Then I guess I got nothing for you. [He waves his hand to dismiss them] Go on!

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Megan: Don’t tell nobody it was me who told you this, okay? But you’re going to have to go on up the hill and ask for a talk with Thump Milton. Now, I hope he’ll talk with you - he generally won’t. Ree: That man scares me way more than the rest. Megan: Well, scared ain’t a bad way to be about him, neither, hon. He’s my own granpaw, and I still make damn sure I never piss him off none.

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Merab: You ain’t here for trouble, are you? Ree: No, ma’am. Merab: Cause one of my nephews is Buster Leroy, and didn’t he shoot your daddy one time? Ree: Yes’m, but that ain’t got nothing to do with me. They settled all that theirselves, I think. Merab: Shooting him likely settled it. What is it you want? Ree: I got a real bad need to talk with Thump. Merab: And he ain’t got no need to talk to you. Ree: But I need to. I really, really got to ma’am. Please! Ree: Some of our blood at least is the same. Ain’t that s’posed to mean somethin’ - isn’t that what is always said? Merab: [irritated] Ain’t you got no men could do this? Ree: No, Ma’am, I don’t.

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Merab: He ain’t likely to have time for you, child. Ree: I’ve got to talk to him. If he don’t know, nobody does. Merab: Nope. Talking just causes witnesses. And he don’t want for any of those. Ree: I’ll wait. Merab: You need to get yourself on home.

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Merab: Thump knows you were in the valley, child. With Megan. And at Little Arthur’s. He knows what you want to ask, and he don’t want to hear it. Ree: And that’s it? He ain’t gonna say nothing to me? Merab: If you’re listening, child, you got your answer. Ree: So, I guess come the nut-cutting, blood don’t really mean shit to the big man. Am I understanding that right? Merab: Don’t you dare. Don’t! I want you to listen to me, child. You need to turn around, and get yourself on home. Don’t you make me come out here and tell you again!

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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 or 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’ve heard what Dolly’s 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, bred’n buttered, and that’s how I know Dad’s dead. Satterfield: How old are you? Ree: Seventeen.

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Megan: What are we ever gonna do with you, baby girl? Ree: Kill me, I guess. Megan: That idea has been said already. Got any others? Ree: Help me. Ain’t nobody said that idea yet, have they? Megan: I tried to help you some before, and this is what come of it.

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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? Thump Milton: You’re gonna stand for her, are you? Teardrop: If she does wrong, you can put it on me. Thump Milton: She’s now yours to answer for. Teardrop: This is a girl who ain’t gonna tell nobody nothing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.