1923 Quotes (Season 2)

People aren’t defined by what happens to them. They’re defined by what they do. More often than not, they’re defined by what they don’t do. What they’re too scared to do.

Selling an experience is an infinite resource that costs nothing to create because it already exists.

Schools don’t teach you what happened. They teach you what they want you to believe. And if they can teach you that, you’ll believe anything they tell you.

Mothers can endure anything. A child’s first act on this planet is to tear his mother in two. Rip her apart from the inside. What emerges is a life completely dependent on her. For food, warmth, comfort, protection. The child will speak a language devised solely of wails and murmurs and furrowed brows and the mother understands this language the instant it is spoken. The mother is consumed and driven by a love that is indescribable to those who have not experienced it. It is not the butterflies of infatuation. It is the instinct of love.

Man destroys everything. He has been at war with this world since he first entered it. War with its trees. War with its weather. So is everything else. If it was up to the wolves, it would be wolves and nothing else. Same goes for the bear and the snake and the spider. Trees grow tall to rob sunlight from all beneath it. Nothing coexists. Life is a constant state of battle for survival. And only one thing rings victorious: the world itself. Earth is not a benign rock condemned to endure countless little rapes from its inhabitants. It is a living, evolving, interactive being capable of wiping all existence by the simplest of wobbles on its axis. There have been five mass extinctions on this planet where almost all life was eradicated, its occupiers cleansed from this place. It only stands to reason that a sixth one is coming.

I sure hope you’ll come back. But not like that boy does. Sun don’t rise in the east with him. Rises with you.[to Elizabeth]

Desiring what another man has, his land, his money, his wife; that has led to every atrocity this world has ever seen.

Winter is the killing season. When the hunters among us seek out the weak, the foolish. Only the very strongest of nature’s creatures survive it. Winter is the time of the wolf. The time of the lion. When all nature’s failures become a meal. Then spring brings new life. And God tries again.

We’re not subject to our deeds. We decide the deeds, and our decisions become the truth.[to Banner]

The mother that would choose herself over her child is no mother at all.

Did you talk to her?[Jacob Dutton]Tried.[Cara Dutton]Let me try.[Jacob Dutton]Can’t make it any worse. I stand corrected. If anyone can make it worse, it would be you.[Cara Dutton]That’s why we’ve lasted so long, honey. Your unwavering belief in me.[Jacob Dutton]

That rarest of creatures. Your smile.[to Spencer]