Shutter Island Quotes

(she is a mental patient who is told by Marshal Daniels that she seems quite normal in comparison to the other patients) "Well I have my dark days, I suppose everybody does. The difference is that most people don't kill their husbands with an axe."
- Bridget Kearns, Shutter Island

(stating what is on his mind to Marshal Daniels) "Did you knows that the word trauma comes from the Greek for wound? Wounds can create monsters and you, you are wounded Marshal. And wouldn't you agree that when you see a monster you must stop it? "
- Dr. Jeremiah Naering, Shutter Island

(explaining how mental patients used to be treated) "It used to be that the kind of patients we deal with here were shackled and left in their own filth. They were beaten as if whipping them bloody would drive their psychosis out. We drove screws into their brains and we submerged them in icy water until they lost consciousness or drowned."
- Dr. John Cawley, Shutter Island

(explaining to Marshal Teddy Daniels the details of Rachel Solanso's disappearance from her cell) "What's more disturbing is we don't know how she got out of her room, it was locked from the outside. It was as if she evaporated straight through the walls."
- Dr. John Cawley, Shutter Island

(confronting Marshal Teddy Daniels) "You know, I've built something valuable here and valuable things have a way of being misunderstood in their own time, everyone wants a quick fix, they always have. I'm trying to do something that people, yourself included, do not understand and I'm not going to give up without a fight."
- Dr. John Cawley, Shutter Island

(counseling Teddy Daniels) "You blew up my car. I really loved that car."
- Dr. John Cawley, Shutter Island

(talking with Teddy Daniels) "I wish I could just let you live in your fantasy world, I really do. You are violent, trained, dangerous. You are the most dangerous patient we have."
- Dr. John Cawley, Shutter Island

(upon arriving on Shutter Island and being briefed on all the rules) "You act like insanity is catching."
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

(learning from Dr. John Cawley that all of the patients are killers but that they attempt to help them keep their sense of calm) "Well personally Doctor I have to say screw their sense of calm."
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

(telling his partner, Chuck Aule, why he took this case) "Andrew Laeddis was a maintenance man in the apartment building where my wife and I lived. He was also a fire bug. Andrew Laeddis lit the match that caused the fire that killed my wife."
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

(telling his partner, Chuck Aule, his suspicions) "They're experimenting on people here. That's the beauty of it, isn't it? Crazy people are perfect subjects, they talk and nobody listens."
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

(talking to his dead wife) "I'm sorry honey, I love this thing because you gave it to me. The truth is, it's one f*****g ugly tie."
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

(talking with Dr. Cawley who tries to tell him that he has been a patient for the last two years) "You really think you can convince me that I'm crazy, huh? Do you know the kind of people that I deal with every day? I'm a U.S. Marshal for God's sake."
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

(talking to his partner at the movie's end) "This place makes me wonder. Which would be better, to live as a monster or die a good man?"
- Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island

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