Dialogue
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Ethan Wate: I was losing my mind. Until I realized that would be no great toss. I start junior year tomorrow, so insanity's inevitable. Share this quote on facebook
Ethan Wate: Mama used to say there's only two kinds of people in Gatlin: The ones too stupid to leave and the ones too stuck to move. Share this quote on facebook
Amma: You decide what colleges you applying to?
Ethan Wate: All of them, as long as they're a thousand miles away from here. Share this quote on facebook
Emily Asher: I want you to know something. I still care deeply for you as a friend. And I pray every night that you don't go straight to hell.
Ethan Wate: Oh, I won't go straight to hell, Emily. I wanna stop off in New York first. Share this quote on facebook
Ethan Wate: So I can stay with Dad. I'll get my teaching degree, and probably teach at the high school. Or maybe I'll take over the library from Amma. I'll probably marry Emily Asher and we'll have two kids. But I'll never make enough money for her, so I'll start drinking get three DUI's and lose my job. And, uh, have an affair on and off with Savannah Snow until I'm 49. The kids will live with their mother after we divorce. Then when I'm 52, I'll have my first heart attack, another one at 63. I'll move into an apartment above the Wayward Dog bar and help them sweep up after hours for free drinks. And then when I'm 64, I'll hang myself. Um... But they won't find the body right away. Not until I stink. Share this quote on facebook
Lena Duchannes: Don't be a snob, uncle. It's not their fault you never speak to any of them.
Macon Ravenwood: And it's not my fault that I have a predilection for good breeding... ...reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene. Share this quote on facebook
Macon Ravenwood: What is that source of authority? A bunch of sexually frustrated housewives... ...with miniscule minds and voluminous backs-ides. Share this quote on facebook
Lena Duchannes: My family's different.
Ethan Wate: Different how?
Lena Duchannes: We do things. We do different things.
Ethan Wate: So, like, what, you're from Europe? Share this quote on facebook
Lena Duchannes: I mean, calling us "witches" is like calling the smart kids "geeks" or the athletes "jocks." We prefer the term "Caster." Share this quote on facebook
Ethan Wate: My mama used to say: Get out of this town as soon as you can. Go find out how other people live and think before you find a place that's yours." And I'd say, "Mom, I'm 9. How do I do that?" So that's when she took me to the library. And, um, she said: Ethan, this is my church. This is where my family goes to celebrate what's holy: Ideas." Share this quote on facebook
Ethan Wate: Most people spend their entire lives... ...waiting for a moment that's gonna change everything. It never happens. We can start our lives right now, okay? Share this quote on facebook
Lena Duchannes: When a female Caster turns 16, we face what they call the Claiming. My powers will be claimed for either the Light or the Dark depending on my true nature. Whatever I'm destined to be. Share this quote on facebook
Sarafine: They invent ideas like God, and love, and righteousness and then they use those same ideas to kill anyone who disagrees with them. They pray without true beliefs and then wonder why their spells don't work. They don't even value their pathetic little lives until seconds before it's taken from them. Poor things. Share this quote on facebook
Macon Ravenwood: In that kind of darkness, there's not even a memory of love, only power.
Amma: Everything has a price. Share this quote on facebook
Ethan Wate: We don't have powers to just change things whenever we like. Being human is feeling bad, it's feeling Share this quote on facebook
Amma: Gatlin is like the capital of Caster America. The Caster Library used to be under Washington, D.C. until Nancy Reagan made them move. She was the only mortal they were ever scared of. They know a Caster's here. ... The Caster Library has been the responsibility of Seers like me for generations. Something I had no choice about either, by the way. And these books hold the histories of the Casters from around the world the laws that keep balance between Light and Dark. Share this quote on facebook
Lena Duchannes: I still don't know what to get you. ... What do you wish for every year that you never get?
Ethan Wate: No, it's not... You're gonna think I'm so not cool.
Lena Duchannes: That's okay, I don't think you're cool now.
Ethan Wate: Um... Snow.
Lena Duchannes: Really?
Ethan Wate: Well, you know what, I always wanted one of those white movie Christmases.I mean, look at this. This is, like, pathetic. This ain't Christmas, heh.
Lena Duchannes: That's what you really want? How am I gonna survive a lifetime of you surprising me?
(It starts to snow.)
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