Memorable Quotes from Björk
11 quotesCuriosity About Marriage and Relationships
Margit
What's it like beeing married?
Katla
Do you have someone in mind?
Margit
No, I just wanted to know.
Katla
Are you sure you're not thinking of someone?
Margit
No.
Katla
When you know, then you'll know why I woun't leave Jóhann. And you will know when you will find out.
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A Discussion on Game Rules and Fairness
Jónas
You took two.
Margit
I only nocked it with my hand.
Margit
You have to pick a shell first.
Jónas
Where are you end your sister from?
Margit
It's not there anymore.
Jónas
It disappeared?
Margit
No. There aren't any people there anymore. They are all gone.
Jónas
Will you ever go back?
Margit
Katla sais we'll stay here. That we are from here now.
Jónas
But you can't change where you are from
Margit
But what if where you are from isn't there anymore?
Jónas
Then you can be from here, but your sister can't be.
Margit
Why not?
Jónas
Because I'm from here and I don't want here to be.
Margit
But she's my sister and she has to be from the same place as I am.
Jónas
But I don't want her to be.
Margit
But she has to be.
Jónas
No, she can't be. I don't want her to be. No she can't be. I don't want her to be. She can't be. I don't want her to be. No. She can't be. I woun't let her.
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Desire to Avoid Unwanted Sight
Margit
I don't want to see. Even if I could.
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Finding Music in Everyday Sounds
Selma Ježková
Clatter, crash, clack! Racket, bang, thump! Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam! It's music, now dance!
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The Silence of the Deceased
Margit
This is Jónas.
[to mother]
Margit
She can't speak. When people are dead they can't speak anymore.
[to Jónas]
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Finding Music in Hardship
Selma Ježková
I've got little games I play when it goes really hard. When I'm working in the factory... and the machines, they make these... rhythms... And I just start dreaming, and it all becomes music.
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The Connection Between Souls and Nature
Margit
Where did she go?
Katla
She became ashes and left with the wind.
Margit
And her sould?
Katla
Her sould... was tied with the heart of a bird.
Margit
And the tread will hold forever?
Katla
Until the bird's heart breaks.
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A Conversation About a Mother's Vision
Margit
Jónas, Jónas.
Jónas
What's the matter?
Margit
I've seen my mother.
Jónas
Where
Margit
By the see, and on the heath. I couldn't remember before. But now I do.
Jónas
What dose she look like?
Margit
She's very beautiful.
Jónas
But how can she be here?
Margit
Sometimes people return.
Jónas
Is she a ghost?
Margit
No, she came to take care of me.
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The Importance of Memory and Presence
Jónas
I come here every day so she'll remember me.
Margit
And if you didn't come, she would forget?
Jónas
Yes
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The Illusion of Musicals in Dreams
Selma Ježková
I used to dream that I was in a musical coz in a musical nothing dreadful ever happens.
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Dreams of America in a Tin of Candy
Selma Ježková
In Czechoslovakia, I saw a film, and they were eating candy from a tin just like this. I thought to myself... how wonderful it must be in the United States.
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