Our list of the best quotes from Amazon Prime Video mystery western drama TV series. Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin), a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness. As the Abbotts are coping with the disappearance of daughter-in-law Rebecca, they are pushed further to the brink when the Tillersons make a play for their land. Then an untimely death in the community sets off a chain of events, and seemingly small-town, soil-bound troubles come to a head with the arrival of a mysterious black void in the Abbotts west pasture. Wild revelations unfold as Royal fights to protect his family, and through his eyes, we begin to see how time contains secrets held in the past and unsettling mysteries foreshadowed.
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Season 1 Quotes
'The world plays out how it's supposed to, so there's nothing to worry about.' – Autumn (Outer Range) Share on X
Royal Abbott: You know anything about a Greek god called Chronos? He carried a sickle. He used it to cut a hole. A tear in the cosmos between heaven and Earth. To separate this world from the next. To separate the known from the unknown. The world has been waiting for something like this.
Perry Abbott: Take some risks, and don’t regret them.
Cecilia Abbott: You know, just because we’re hurting it doesn’t mean God’s not there. I mean, you can’t fight it. You just got to accept it. It’s okay. It is.
Royal Abbott: Or it’s not.
Autumn: [after she finds him throwing Trevor’s body into the void] What is this, Royal?
Royal Abbott: I don’t know what it is.
Autumn: Well, you must know something. Why else would you throw a body in there?
Autumn: You know about the Greek god Chronos?
Royal Abbott: What?
Autumn: He’s trickled down, you know, into every civilization. He’s evolved here and there. He always carried a, like a sickle. He used that sickle to cut a hole. You know, make a tear in the cosmos between heaven and earth. To separate this world from the next. To separate the known from the unknown. You see, that’s how we got time. Because Chronos is chronology.
Cecilia Abbott: You think we’ll be forgiven for this?
Royal Abbott: Fixing to find out.
Perry Abbott: I’m talking about fate.
Royal Abbott: Fate. What about it?
Perry Abbott: Is that how you think the world works?
Royal Abbott: I don’t know how the world works.
Todd Barney: The Tillersons don’t lose.
Royal Abbott: Yeah. A first for everything, Todd.
Royal Abbott: You don’t cozy up to the Tillersons. You keep them as far away as possible.
Wayne Tillerson: We’re born to hunt, and one frontier begets another. I’m hungry more than anything else. I want your west pasture, because I want your west pasture.
Royal Abbott: Dear God, we pray for Trevor. For his family. And for our boys. Our family. We ask that You forgive us. I guess. We ask that You show us the way here, because we’re in trouble. We are desperate. You made this crazy world. So maybe You can give us some sort of hint as to what You’re up to. Because I don’t have the first f***ing clue. And maybe it’s that You have nothing to do with this, or maybe You’re not even there, who knows. There is a big distance between You and us. A gap, a void. There is a great void, and I’m asking You to fill that void. I’m asking You to fill that void. I’m asking You to come down here and explain Yourself. Because this world of Yours isn’t quite adding up, and I hate You for it. I really do. And I don’t even think I f***ing believe in You. But I really hate You. Amen.
Autumn: You need me to keep a hell of a lot of secrets, least of which is the fact that you threw a body into a hole.
Royal Abbott: So did you.
Autumn: But you came back. How?
Autumn: What do you remember from your childhood? Do you remember anything before the age of nine?
Royal Abbott: Why?
Autumn: Because I didn’t until I got here.
Autumn: [to Royal] Something’s happening here. Something bigger than you and me, and we’re the only two people that know about it. And we can help each other understand this. We don’t have to be afraid. What did you see in there?
Royal Abbott: First there was a storm of carbon and molten rock. And that beg at granite and soil. Then land shook, and cracked, and rose till it spiked the sky. And forests grew and died. And grew a hundred times again. And people grew and died. And grew a hundred times again. There were storms and seasons, and fences and blood. Wonder, and vengeance, and regret. And the land and the sky didn’t give two s**ts.
Royal Abbott: That’s what old people do, isn’t it? Repeat themselves.
Amy Abbott: You’re not that old.
Royal Abbott: Right.
Deputy Sheriff Joy: [to herself] Trudy’s a damn girl’s name.
Wayne Tillerson: You know what animals got the best hearings? Bats. Bats and moths. They bounce sound off of walls and each other. Echolocation. That’s also how they mate. Ultrasonic sexual communication. They are remarkable creatures. Remarkable.
Royal Abbott: Why did you push me in that hole?
Autumn: Maybe I just needed to see what would happen. I’m sorry, Royal. I’m happy that you came back. Truly.
Autumn: Holy f***ing s**t. Oh, my God. Royal. You traveled through f***ing time? Did you see me?
Cecilia Abbott: [to Royal] I have stood by you at every turn! Every single injury, every drought, every fire, every time you f***ing couldn’t pay the goddamn bills. Through Rebecca. Through this. And, holy s**t, we made it. We stuck together, because we had to. And all a sudden, you’re telling me you want to go it alone? Do you know what that feels like?
Royal Abbott: What do you need me to do?
Rhett Abbott: I don’t know. Turn back time?
Royal Abbott: There are no Fritos in that hole, Karl. So munch up while you can, big boy, because I got plans for you.
Royal Abbott: Yeah, it’s a crazy world. Strange times. What can you do?
Deputy Sheriff Joy: Same as I’ve always done. Be patient. Keep looking. Something will show up. World is not that crazy.
Royal Abbott: You ever wonder if the world’s not what you think it is? No law. No order. Just chaos all the way down. Heck, look around. We just put a man into the earth, and it’s all folks can do but drink themselves silly, fending off the dark. Fending off the end.
Autumn: Christ. You’re like a walking cliché, Royal. You want a pack of Marlboros too? Oh, you’re still angry, aren’t you? I thought we said all that was water under the bridge. Everyone, Royal Abbott is angry because I pushed him into a goddamn hole. Now, ain’t that some schoolyard s**t?
Trevor Tillerson: [as Royal hallucinates] Time’s a m**herf***er.
Cecilia Abbott: Well, it’s not your necklace anymore though, is it? You lost. He won.
Autumn: That’s such a binary way to look at it. There’s more to everything than just winning or losing.
Cecilia Abbott: Not poker.
Cecilia Abbott: Whatever you’re doing here, whatever you’re trying to get done, I’m not going to let it happen. Do you understand what I’m saying to you?
Autumn: Something’s already happening.
Autumn: It’s hard to really know anyone else, isn’t it? No matter how long you’ve known them. It’s hard enough to know yourself.
Deputy Sheriff Joy: [referring to Perry killing Trevor] Something inside me was talking, and I listened. He did it.
Perry Abbott: [referring to Royal] It’s in me too, you know.
Cecilia Abbott: What?
Perry Abbott: What’s in him. And what’s not.
Cecilia Abbott: It’s hard enough to know yourself, let alone anyone else.
Autumn: Time’s a dimension, right? Like, length, width, height. We can see those. We can touch them. So why not time?
Perry Abbott: It can be hard to explain things, or talk about them. Sometimes you keep things from the people you love because you don’t want to hurt them.
Amy Abbott: Not knowing hurts too.
Autumn: Once upon a time, long ago, there was a young astrologer. He’d walk the land, gazing up at the sky, marveling at the movement of the heavens. His eyes were always fixed on what was above him, so much so that, often he would stumble when he walked. One day, the stumbling astrologer tripped, and he fell into a well. And soon, his mother, who was a wise old woman, she found him at the bottom of the well. And she said to him, “How do you expect to know what’s in the heavens, if you can’t see what’s at your feet?”
Royal Abbott: [to Cecilia] I’d be lost without you. That’s the God’s honest truth.
Autumn: There are things that are happening that are connected to you, and they’re connected to me, and they’re connected to Rebecca. I know that it’s hard to accept this kind of darkness in your own family, Perry, but it is essential, it is essential that you do.
Autumn: [referring to the void] It’s time, Billy. It’s all of time. It’s just sitting there, waiting for us. There’s a pattern to everything happening here. It gets clearer every day. And slowly, but surely, that pattern’s moving everything my way.
Billy Tillerson: You don’t have to know what something is to believe in it.
Billy Tillerson: You think it’s the end? Or the beginning?
Royal Abbott: What?
Billy Tillerson: The hole.
Autumn: [to herself] Somewhere on this land is an altar that has not been built yet, but I will build it. Somewhere in the future is a portal to the past, and I will own it. Somewhere in your heart is a hole, and I will fill it. I am the Mother of Undying Time, and I will usher Her into the world with power, and love, and justice, as a gatekeeper to the Unknown. And I will be your shepherd in the night. And I will be your shepherd in the night. And I will be your shepherd in the night.
Royal Abbott: People have told me that grace is a given thing. That if you seek it, you’ll find it. When I was a kid, I’d go to church, and hear the pastor preach the word. And he’d make me feel everything in my heart. And everything in the world around me would have a little more meaning. The world was a bright place. It worked on me. God was everything good. Then, when I was eight years-old, I shot my father. When I watched that stray buckshot go into his chest and blow all his insides out his back, the world went black. Like it had ended altogether. It hit me that God is everything. Everything good, and everything bad.
Rhett Abbott: You think you’re going to stay here your whole life?
Amy Abbott: Aren’t you?
Billy Tillerson: The hole’s gone.
Luke Tillerson: What do you mean it’s gone?
Billy Tillerson: It’s gone. Disappeared. Maybe it’s hiding somewhere else, I don’t know.
Autumn: I know why you’re afraid of me. It’s okay. I’d be afraid too. You can’t beat fate, Royal.
Royal Abbott: Yeah, I think I’m going to give it a whirl.
Royal Abbott: [after realizing that Autumn is grown up Amy who’s traveled through time] You’re my family. And you pushed out that pain for me. But I held on to it no matter. And for my entire life, I was afraid of how it might bleed on to all of you. And it has. I tried to keep it secret. I tried to protect you from me. All of you. And I’m sorry. I want to do it different. I don’t want grace. I just want my family back. All I want is our family back.
Cecilia Abbott: Our family is gone. It’s all gone. Our children are gone. Amy’s gone.
Royal Abbott: No, she’s not.