Memorable Quotes from Christopher Atkins
9 quotesThe Search for Understanding and Knowledge
Richard
There's so many things I don't understand, like why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after a heavy rain? Why do you hear the waves inside the big shells? Why are all these funny hairs growing on me? I wish a big book with all the answers to every question in the world would drop out of the sky and land in my hands right now. I'd read it till I knew everything.
Emmeline
Oh, Richard, you can't know everything. Only God knows everything.
Richard
God — He can't find us any better than Santa Claus.
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A Crucial Ship and Fractured Trust
Richard
Emmeline! Emmeline! A ship! A ship! The signal fire you didn't light it! Why didn't you light it?! Why Em, Why? You know how much important me to leave, It's the most important thing in the whole world to me!
[runs to her, excitedly; stops, worried]
Emmeline
I know.
Richard
First you cry for help, then you throw sticks at me. A ship comes, a ship! First ship we've seen since we've been here, and you let it go by. Just let it go by, well that's it? I've had it! I'm sick and tired of waiting for you to get better, I'm going to San Francisco without you!
[he pronounces it San Farisco]
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A Playful Exchange Between Friends
Richard
What are you looking at?
Emmeline
Your muscles.
Richard
What about them?
Richard
You're really acting silly lately, Em. Always saying dumb things like that. Always looking at me funny! You're not coming down with something, are you? Don't give it to me.
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Resolving Conflicts in Relationships
Richard
Why are we always fighting so much?
Emmeline
I don't know.
Richard
That should be our New Year's revolution Stop fighting so much.
[he said it wrong]
Emmeline
I'll try, but...
Richard
But what? Tell me.
Emmeline
I don't know what's wrong with me when I say the things I say. I just keep having all these strange thoughts.
Richard
What kind of thoughts?
Emmeline
Just funny thoughts about you and me.
Richard
Tell me. What are they?
Emmmeline
Oh, I couldn't. They're just thoughts; they don't mean anything.
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Island Life and Relationships Explored
Emmeline
You're such a silly dodo, Richard. We're never getting off this island.
Richard
Thanks to you!
Emmeline
This is where we live. This is our home, now and forever.
Richard
No! I could never live here forever with just you! I don't even like you! You never used to laugh at me! You never used to have secrets you wouldn't tell me!
Emmeline
Well you're not so perfect, either, Mr. Richard Lestrange. I've seen you playing with it, and I'll tell your father, if he ever gets here.
Richard
You! I hate you!
[throws a rock, narrowly missing her]
Emmeline
You almost hit me!
Richard
Take it back! Take back what you said!
Emmeline
I've seen it all! What happens after you've been doing it a long time?
Richard
Shut up! That isn't fair peeking. I don't peek on you!
Emmeline
That's a lie! You're always staring at my buppies.
Richard
Only cause they look so funny! You what you look like now, Em? You look like one of those pictures Paddy had in his drawer, one of his hootchie-cootchie girls!
Emmeline
I do not, I do not!
Richard
Hoochie coochie, hoochie coochie!
Emmeline
Stop that Richard, or I'll never talk to you again.
Richard
Hoochie coochie, hoochie coochie. See em jiggle, wiggle and shake.
Emmeline
Oh, I'm sorry, Richard. I didn't mean to hit you!
Richard
Wish you were dead and buried!
[slaps Emmeline across her face]
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Exploring Love and Uncertainty in Relationships
Emmeline
I'm sorry, Richard.
Richard
You didn't want to all yesterday, either. What's the matter, Em? Don't you love me any more?
Emmeline
Yes, I love you more than ever, Richard.
Richard
Then why don't you want to do it?
Emmeline
It just hurts right now, that's all. When it stops hurting, we'll do it.
Richard
When is that gonna be? I don't understand, Em. Why does it hurt?
Emmeline
I don't know. I don't know anything. But if you touch my tummy right now, you can feel it.
Richard
Feel what? How'd you make your tummy move like that?
[puts his hand on her belly]
Emmeline
I'm not doing it.
Richard
It's not doing it by itself.
Emmeline
Yes, it is.
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Exploring Marriage Through Pictures
Paddy
What's in them pictures, Richard?
Richard
It's a story about these funny people who get married. There's a saying in each one.
Paddy
Give us a look.
Richard
Were you ever married, Paddy?
Paddy
Seven times. Kids in every port from Clao to Macao. Seventeen at the last count, and never set eyes on a single one of em. Slant-eyed little devils, black little devils, even a couple of pink ones like you. And all with my eyes.
Richard
Paddy, what's "subjugation"?
Paddy
Something I've been trying to avoid all my life.
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A Debate Over Swimming Attire and Rules
Paddy
Come back here this instant! This ain't gonna hurt you!
Emmeline
We don't wanna go swimming!
Richard
We don't have out bathing costumes!
Paddy
To Hell with your bathing costumes! You don't wear em when you take a bath, do you?
Emmeline
This isn't a bathtub! This is the ocean!
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A Playful Moment Between Friends
Richard
Kiss me.
[while eating fruit]
Emmeline
You're all sticky!
Richard
So what? Kiss me.
Emmeline
Stop, I can't breathe.
Richard
But I don't wanna stop.
Emmeline
What are you doing? Stop it!
Richard
I have a funny feeling in my stomach.
Emmeline
Me, too.
Richard
My heart is beating so fast.
Emmeline
Mine, too.
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