Dan: You're very strange. You sure I never interviewed you before?
Kirby: You tell me.
Dan: I know you.
Kirby: From where? [crying] If you ever remember, you know where to find me.

Harper: I need you to talk to me. Clear, none of the horseshit about the lights.
Leo: They're always there. You would talk about them, too.

Harper: Please. I thought nobody was here.
Kirby: You don't care who's here.
Harper: No, I swear! I wouldn't, I wouldn't have hurt you. I wouldn't.
Kirby: Because I have a gun; you're on the ground.
Harper: Please, I can go. I can go right now. Just walk out the door right now, please.
Kirby: And you won't come back?
Harper: No, never. You'll never see my face again. I promise.
Kirby: You can't not be who you are. Second son of a German mother. When she died, no one wanted you, not even the nuns, and they'll take anyone. At least, that's what you tell yourself in your head. And it makes you think that the world owes you and that you can take whatever you want from whoever there is. This is mine. This is my house.
Harper: Why are you doing this? I don't know you.
Kirby: No, not today. But I am always with you. Get out, or I'll kill you. I've done it before.

Kirby: It was never you. It's this house.
Harper: That's right. It's my fuckin' house. [Kirby knifes him in the throat]

Kirby: I wanted to see him.
Iris: No, you don't. Not like this.

You tried that with Klara. She saw through you. I will too. I know why you don't want to go back. Because you have nothing there. There's nothing behind you; there's nothing ahead of you. That's why you'll never leave this house. Because no one wants you anywhere else.

Leo

I don't want to feel this way anymore, so I don't care what happens next.

Kirby

You know, I never, never let people take too many photos of me. I never feel like I need 'em. I see myself. I stay aflight. I don't cause arguments. I don't fight, but when my wife told me what happened to her, I wanted to find 'im and kill him. I never felt that before. That violence? Oh, it pulled the sinner out of me, changed me into somebody I don't even recognize, and I can't even imagine what she is going through right now. She really doesn't remember who she is, and I'm watching it happen to her. If you don't want to hear it, then I don't know who I am supposed to tell. Who do I tell?

Marcus

Kirby: Up until the last week, ah, I didn't really know you. And those photos you showed me, I don't recognize any of them.
Marcus: I don't understand. You, you're having trouble remembering?
Kirby: No. I was never there. Those photos, it wasn't me.
Marcus: Who do you think it was then?
Kirby: It's still me, but it's from a part of my life that I haven't gotten to yet.
Marcus: Really? You think that? How long's it been like this?
Kirby: Since your birthday.
Marcus: Kirby, you can't keep going after this story. You're not going to be OK.
Kirby: I don't know you, but we are together because one day, I will.

Just because I don't work here anymore doesn't mean I'm going to stop looking for him.

Kirby

Kirby: Your keychain. He took your old one and left it in another woman.
Jinny: What does that mean? Is he gonna kill me?
Kirby: He already has, just not yet.

Klara: I hear they hand out medals on the ride home. How many did you get?
Harper: I just got the ride.

Shining Girls Quotes

Kirby: The detective who was on my case, he called me in. Doesn't matter. It's- I thought it did, but it doesn't.
Dan: He called you in for what?
Kirby: He thought it was the same guy.
Dan: What someone did to Julia, they tried to do to you?
Kirby: It was six years ago.

First we find its shine, and then we take it away.

Harper