Rev. Clayton Quotes in Forsaken (2015)

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Rev. Clayton Quotes:

  • Rev. Clayton: You don't wear guns.

    John Henry Clayton: I put them away. I'm done with that. What is that supposed to mean?

    Rev. Clayton: It means I don't know if a man can get away from who he is.

    John Henry Clayton: And you think you know who I am?

    Rev. Clayton: I thought I did.

  • Rev. Clayton: What is the reason you came home?

    John Henry Clayton: I didn't know I had to have a reason, Pa.

  • Rev. Clayton: Your mother and I kept asking ourselves... asking God... what we done wrong in your upbringing? What did we do that filled you with so much hate?

    John Henry Clayton: It weren't you.

    Rev. Clayton: John 8:32, remember? The truth will set you free. God knows the truth.

    John Henry Clayton: All through the war I kept asking myself, where was God? Where was he at Shiloh and Seven Pines when men lay dead and dying? All good men, God-fearing men. They just lay there, begging for some small act of mercy on His behalf. And then it finally dawned on me: There ain't no God.

    Rev. Clayton: [jumping out of his chair and blustering toward him ] THERE IS NO GOD?

    John Henry Clayton: [standing up to meet him] All I'm saying is that if there was ever a time that man needed God it was then, and trust me, he wasn't there. If you're expecting God to save you, he ain't gonna.

    Rev. Clayton: Most men came out of that war wanting nothing more to do with killing, but not you... You went looking for it. God is not responsible for the life you choose.

    John Henry Clayton: I DID NOT CHOOSE IT!

  • John Henry Clayton: This ain't gonna end, Pa, till someone ends it.

    Rev. Clayton: Not you. It doesn't have to be you.

    John Henry Clayton: It's time I did something right in my life. This is what I know how to do.

  • [first lines]

    Rev. Clayton: Your mother is dead.

    [turns and walks back into the house]

    John Henry Clayton: [follows him into the house] I did not know that she had passed.

    Rev. Clayton: How could you?

    John Henry Clayton: If I had known that she had been sick, I'd...

    Rev. Clayton: You would've done what? You would've come home if you knew she was dying? But you couldn't come home when she was living, when she was full of hope?

    John Henry Clayton: How did she pass?

    Rev. Clayton: In my arms, lying beside me in bed. Weeping. Calling out your name.

  • Rev. Clayton: Remember when I kept asking ourselves what we done wrong and it filled you with so much hate?

  • Rev. Clayton: God is not responsible for the life you choose.

    John Henry Clayton: I DID NOT CHOOSE IT!

  • [last lines]

    Rev. Clayton: [tearfully] You're not going for another 10 years, are you?

    John Henry Clayton: No, I promise. See you soon, Pa...

    Gentleman Dave Turner: [narrating] Little is known of him after that. Some say he drifted down to Coffeeville where he was involved in another altercation a few years later. But those accusations were never proven. The common view was he moved westward under a different name, where he lived a life of quiet isolation. What is known is that when Mary Alice died a few years later, he did not attend her funeral. However, many say the following day, a faded red ribbon was found attached to her headstone. Others in Fowler recounted stories of seeing him throughout the years, up until his father's death, at which time he came no more.

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