The Glass Castle (2017)

Brie Larson: Jeannette

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Quotes 

• Rex : I never built the glass castle.

  Jeannette : No. But it was fun to plan it.

• Jeannette : [sighs]  My parents are squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side.

  David : Jeanette...

  Jeannette : They were homeless before that for three years before that, which was pretty much how they raised us. My dad is not developing a technology for bituminous coal but he could tell you anything you want to know about it. He is the smartest man I know. He is also a drunk.

  [inhales] 

  Jeannette : never finishes what he starts and can be extremely cruel. But he dreams bigger than anyone I've ever met. And he never tries to be somebody that he's not. He never wanted me to either.

  [Exhales] 

  Jeannette : I'm sorry, but I have to leave.

  David : Go.

• Jeannette : He's never gonna change. You have to leave him.

  [pause] 

  Rose Mary : I can't.

• Jeannette : I feel so... fortunate.

• Jeannette : You did all this for me?

  Rex : Since when is it wrong for a father to take care of his little girl?

• Jeannette : Do you think... Erma ever did something to Dad?

  Rose Mary : Like what?

  Jeannette : Like what she did to Brian.

  Rose Mary : You can't think about things like that. It'll make you crazy.

  Jeannette : ...

  [Meets Rex in a bar] 

  Jeannette : Dad... I'm sorry about Erma.

  Rex : Whenever it's time to go, you go.

  Jeannette : I'm not talking about that... "it's impossible to breathe when you're drowning in shit."

  Rex : ...You still believe in your old man?

• Jeannette : When it comes to my family, let me do the lying.

• Jeannette : We were never a family, Mom. We were a nightmare.