Live by Night

"We're all going to hell."

Joe Coughlin: "Do you think we that we got where we are by letting some inbreds muscle us?"
Virgil Beauregard: "If that's what you think we are, you're making a fatal miscalculation. We're clerks and bankers and police officer, and we even got a judge, and if you're dumb enough to fight us, I'm going to rain bloody hellfire down on you and all you love."
Joe Coughlin: "So you're threatening me with people who are more powerful than you?"
Virgil Beauregard: "Exactly."
Joe Coughlin: "So what am I talking to you for?"

"Did you find out if you are cruel as you need to be?"
[to Joe]

"I realized to be free in this life breaking the rules meant nothing, you had to be strong enough to make your own."

"What you put out in this world will always come back to you, but it never comes back how you would predict."
[to Joe]

"You spent your whole life hoping someone will punish you for your sins. Well, here I am."
[to Joe]

"This is heaven, right here. We're in it now."

Loretta Figgis: "My father says there was once a good man in you."
Joe Coughlin: "We all find ourselves in lives we didn't expect."
Loretta Figgis: "Repent, repent, repent."