True Detective Quotes

Wayne Hays: It's always too late... whatever we do.

Wayne Hays: I don't know what I'm gonna do. But the smartest person I know told me I'd be good at almost anything.

Amelia Reardon: I'll take a hard truth over a nice lie any day.

Amelia Reardon: What part of the case made you burn your suit at 3:00 in the morning? Wayne Hays: The bad part.

Wayne Hays: Getting you to go after Harris, trying to make you do what I wanted. I shouldn'ta done that. I didn't realize how different we were. I hope we can move past it. Roland West: We're past it, bro. Come on.

Elisa Montgomery: I have to say I'm disappointed. I most wanted to talk to you because your record indicated you never went along with the official version. I've been hoping you'd provide a missing piece. Wayne Hays: Young lady, my whole brain's a bunch of missing pieces. 

Wayne Hays: Being police, there's no certainty. Lot of the time, there's no clarity at all. You just do your best, and learn to live with ambiguity.

Wayne Hays: Before you ever knew me, I wasn't scared much. I wasn't a fearful man. I did things some people even called brave. Y'all made a coward of me. I've been terrified since the day you were born.

Wayne Hays: Nothing stays like it used to be.

Dan O'Brien: I want $7,000. Wayne Hays: I want a boat.

Roland West: I thought it took God seven days to make the world. Wayne Hays: He rested on the seventh. I always thought He should have put the extra day in, instead of half-assing it.

Wayne Hays: It's terrible what this work makes you ponder.

Wayne Hays: Hell of a day when a gunfight is the second most exciting thing that happens to you.

Roland West: How is it your son don't have you locked up? Wayne Hays: He don't know how f***ed up I am.

Wayne Hays: You never got married? Not once? I'd sworn you were married.  Roland West: Well, you don't talk to somebody for 24 years, you're gonna miss some s***.  

Roland West: You show a woman you got good kitchen skills, they know you ain't looking for a cook.

Wayne Hays: Gifts shouldn't flatter the giver.