We should’ve given them more time to make the suits bulletproof.[to Camille]
We mothers do what we can to keep our sons from the grave.
Tommy, you are surrounded by fierce women, and maybe that’s why you’re so fierce. They make you fierce.[Gallino]I’m not fierce. I’m very protective.[Tommy Norris]
The kind of people who do the troubling things you think we’re doing are the kind of people who will do anything to protect their children.[to Gene]
The dead aren’t our problem. In surrounding us, they protect us. It’s why we’re still here. We don’t fear them. They’re us. They were our neighbors, our friends, our sisters, our parents, our children. And one day them. And you, and me.
That’s what a good father does. Protects the ones they’re responsible for. The ones they love.
That’s our world now, Will. We lie to everyone. We lie to our friends and our colleagues and our family. We lie out of fear. We lie to protect ourselves.
Stay the f*** away from my family. And honestly, you should stay away from yours too.[to Amy]
Sometimes what haunts us is what keeps us safe.
Sometimes we have to do things we don’t like to protect the people we care about.
Sometimes there are lies that we tell to protect ourselves, and lies that we tell to protect those we love. And sometimes, they’re the same lie.[to Linda]
Sometimes the only way to protect the ones you love is to let them go.
