The Starling Girl (2023)

Wrenn Schmidt: Heidi Starling

Quotes 

• Pastor Taylor : Before Owen, did you have any impure thoughts?

  [pause] 

  Pastor Taylor : Did you feel overtaken by them?

  Jem Starling : I don't know.

  Pastor Taylor : When did this thing with Owen begin? And... whose idea was it? Who started it?

  Jem Starling : Where is Owen?

  Pastor Taylor : I don't know. Why would you ask?

  Jem Starling : He and I talked about it. And if we could just explain...

  Heidi Starling : Explain what?

  Jem Starling : That we-we're meant to be together...

  Heidi Starling : Stop it.

  Pastor Taylor : Wow, enough, alright.

  [to Jem] 

  Pastor Taylor : You've let Satan into your heart.

  Jem Starling : I haven't.

  Pastor Taylor : No, you have. Why do you think you're hurting the people that love you? Listen. If you think that God wanted you and Owen to be together, how are you so certain that wasn't Satan whispering in your ear?

  Jem Starling : If you just get Owen here...

  Pastor Taylor : Owen doesn't wanna talk to you. His life is ruined. He's gotta give up his position. Misty wants to leave him.

  Heidi Starling : Your son had a big part in that.

  Pastor Taylor : Certainly, but, uh... but he says that Jem brought him to sin. He says that she inhibited his ability to control himself. Jem, is any of that true? I mean, I ain't saying that he ain't at fault. That's clear. He is. But we're here and we're talking to you about this. And it is clear to me that Satan has got his hold on you.

  [Jem starts to cry] 

  Pastor Taylor : This-this is a spiritual attack. You've tumbled down a very dark hole, Jem.