1923
Sundays on Paramount+1923 Quotes
A bear in the White House. Of all the things that happen in the world each day, why is the news telling you that? What aren't they telling you? That's the question. This isn't the news, Jack. This is camoflauge. We don't talk politics at the table. If you know what's good for you, you'll remember that.
Cara
Alex: I made you smile. My holy grail.
Spencer: You need loftier goals.
Cara: You know how to bake a cake?
Elizabeth: No.
Cara: I can remedy that.
Jack: They put the bosses of the mining companies in charge of regulatin' the mines?
Jacob: I'll tell you all you need to know about politics, son.
Jack: You're in politics.
Jacob: I'm in law enforcement.
Jack: Well, you enforce the laws you push through.
Cara: Jack.
Jack: I ain't complainin'. I'm just sayin' it's the same thing. You're a cattle man in charge of regulatin' cattle. Am I wrong?
Jacob: There's this theory that these scientists came up with after studyin' tribes in India and Africa, South America. The smaller tribes didn't have any government. Didn't need any. They could sit down and talk out their problems, decide where to plant crops, to hunt. They was just a big family, really. But when the number of people got up around 500, if there wasn't any government, the strongest people would take advantage of the weakest every time, without fail. They would enslave, rape, steal, enrich their lives at the expense of other people's lives. Government's man's ways of tryin' to control our behavior, but it can't be controlled. It's what we are. Sooner or later, the kind of people that would enrich themselves at your expense will use the government to do it, and mark my words, one day, they'll create laws to control what we say, how we think. They'll outlaw our right to disagree if we let 'em. I created the commission to protect the way this family provides for itself, how it protects the land.
Spencer: I'll tell you one. I'll tell you a dream. In my heart, I know it was wrong to take you. Everything that happened up to now was a sign, a warning. Elephant, the lions, the shipwreck. It was all the universe tellin' me to put you back. I'm just too fuckin' selfish to do it. My dream, my dream is that the universe was wrong, and you're mine to keep.
Alex: The universe has absolutely no say whatsoever. I'm following you wherever you go, whether you like it or not. Here's another dream. This one's already come true.
Spencer: It's far from coming true.
Alex: There is no putting me back. We are one now. When the sun hits your face, I'm your shadow. When it finds my back, you are mine. I go where you go, even if it's the death of me.
Captain: Can't make much of a ceremony here, but we can make something.
Spencer: Putting things off a day isn't proving conducive to our current lifestyle. [Alex laughs]
Captain: No, I don't suppose it is. Very well. I don't suppose you have rings.
Spencer: No rings.
Captain: [opens a box] When sailors pass, and we have no address to send along to their widows, they accumulate here. See if you can find some that fit.
Alex: Rather morbid, getting wed with a dead sailor's ring.
Captain: Yes, I would endeavor to replace at the first opportunity.
Spencer: I don't know. Ocean almost took us. Now it gives us rings. I think I'll keep mine.
We swim right now or we die!
Spencer
It ain't our fate. You're gonna need another reason to kiss me.
Spencer
You saved my life. I know it. I did not need to be told. It's not vengeance. It's preservation.
Jacob
Alex: Are we in danger? Broader danger than we were five minutes ago, I mean?
Spencer: I wouldn't go swimming.
Fear is the stench of guilt, child, and you reek of it.
Father Renaud
This isn't what you promised. You haven't lost anything that I haven't lost. I'm an orphan, too, now. All we have is each other, and I don't even have that. You know, our wedding day came and went with no mention of it. We don't speak. You don't even touch me. I've got just as much right to hate the man as you do, but I don't because hate takes your whole heart, every bit of it. It leaves no room for love. I choose not to hate him, so there's room in my heart for you. If you won't do the same for me, take me to town. Send me home, Jack.
Elizabeth
