“Hard Candy” quotes

“- Jeff Kohlver: You're getting yourself in terrible trouble. If you cut me in any way, you won't forget it. It changes you when you hurt somebody.
- Hayley Stark: Oh, and you speak from experience, I guess.
- Jeff Kohlver: I've just lived. Unlike you. The things you do wrong, they haunt you.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Hayley Stark: Tell me what you're haunted by.
- Jeff Kohlver: Do you wanna remember this day when you're with a guy? On a date? Or on your wedding night? 'Cause I promise you you will. Don't do that to yourself.
- Hayley Stark: You know, that is so thoughtful! You are speaking to me so selflessly! I mean, you just don't want me to castrate you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver

“Torture? Is this torture to you? Because wow, I guess you've never read anything about Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, because this is nothing.”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: I think it's better to meet people online first, sometimes. You get to know what they're like inside. When you work as a photographer you find out, real quick, people's faces lie.
- Hayley Stark: Does my face lie?”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“She was only technically a girl, she acted like a woman. It's just so easy to blame a kid. Just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman does not mean she's ready to do what a woman does.”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: I'm a decent guy. Ask anyone. Go ahead. Ask these models.
- Hayley Stark: Of course they will. You're not an idiot. You don't piss where you live. Those girls were your work, and I, on the other hand, was your play.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“Sorry, I couldn't hear you. Maybe it was the music, or I dunno, maybe it was the bullshit.”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: Who the hell are you?
- Hayley Stark: I am every little girl you ever watched, touched, hurt, screwed, killed.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: You and your mom are both wacked?
- Hayley Stark: There's that whole nature versus nurture question, isn't it? Was I born a cute, vindictive, little bitch or did society make me that way? I go back and forth on that.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: Those letters are mine.
- Hayley Stark: Nothing's yours when you invite a teenager into your home.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: Is this some kind of teenage joke?
- Hayley Stark: Teenage? Yeah. Joke? No.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“I mean, you're the grown-up here. If a kid is experimenting and says something flirtatious, you ignore it, you don't encourage it! If a kid says 'Hey, let's make screwdrivers!', you take the alcohol away, and you don't race them to the next drink!”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Jeff Kohlver: I'm not the monster you think I am. I crossed a line. Just call the cops. I'll turn myself in.
- Hayley Stark: Cute pedophile pleads guilty.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Hayley Stark: It's not his fault. He's sick. He has an addiction.
- Jeff Kohlver: I'll do jail. Isn't, isn't that what should happen?
- Hayley Stark: You might get jail time.Therapy, drugs, group discussions, notifying people when you move into a new house. How bad is that, really?
- Jeff Kohlver: It'll ruin my career, ruin my life.
- Hayley...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver

“You look older than you are and you certainly act older than you are.”
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver