Brooklyn - A Girl's Worth in County Wexford
Eilis Lacey:
You're the prettiest girl in County Wexford. You should be able to choose any man you want. And we're hoping that George Sheridan from the rugby club looks your way.
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Brooklyn - Confronting Past Ties and Personal Identity
Eilis Lacey:
I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Eilis Fiorello.
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Brooklyn - Embracing Change and New Beginnings
Eilis Lacey:
You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day, the sun will come out you might not even notice straight away-it'll be that faint. And then you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who's only yours.And you'll realize that this is where your life is.
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The Lovely Bones - A Moment of Understanding Between Friends
Susie Salmon: [''opens her locker as her books fall out'']
Oh! Crap.
Ray Singh: [''laughs'']
Oops.
Susie Salmon: [''starts picking her books up'']
It's okay.
Ray Singh: [''secretly slips a note into her book'']
It's fine. I got it.
Susie Salmon:
Stupid books. I don't even read them... I- I...
Ray Singh:
Susie... what are you doing on Saturday?
Susie Salmon: [''stands up in a loss for words'']
Are you really from England?
Ray Singh: [''smiles'']
Yes. You are beautiful, Susie Salmon.
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The Lovely Bones - A Misguided Prediction About Life's Length
Susie Salmon:
Grandma Lynn predicted I would live a long life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong.
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The Lovely Bones - Between Heaven and Earth: A Haunting Reflection
Susie Salmon:
I was in the blue horizon between heaven and earth. The days were unchanging and every and every night, I dream the same dream. The smell of damp earth. The scream no one heard. The sound of my heart beating like a hammer against cloth and I would hear them calling, the voices of the dead. I wanted to follow them to find a way out but I would always come back to the same door. And I was afraid. I knew if I went in there I would never come out.
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The Lovely Bones - Reflections on Heaven and Memory
Susie Salmon:
Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven beyond everything we knew; where there was no cornfield, no memory, no grave... but I wasn't looking beyond yet, I was still looking back.
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The Lovely Bones - Embracing Existence in a Personal Realm
Susie Salmon:
I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.
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The Lovely Bones - Neighborhood Shadows and Lost Moments
Susie Salmon:
My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. I took his photo once; he stepped out of nowhere and ruined the shot. He ruined a lot of things.
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The Lovely Bones - A Father's Unconditional Love for His Child
Susie Salmon:
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
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The Lovely Bones - Lingering Memories and Letting Go
Susie Salmon:
Always, I would watch Ray; I was in the air around him, I was in the cold winter mornings he spent with Ruth Connors; and sometimes Ray would think of me, but he began to wonder maybe it was time to put that memory away, maybe it was time to let me go.
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The Lovely Bones - Embracing Purpose Amidst Fear of Loss
Susie Salmon:
I was slipping away, that's what it felt like, life was leaving me, but I wasn't afraid; then I remembered: "There was something I was meant to do; somewhere I was meant to be.
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Mary Queen of Scots - Envy and Protection Between Rival Queens
Queen Elizabeth I:
I was jealous. Your beauty. Your bravery. Your motherhood. You seemed to surpass me in every way. But now I see there is no cause for envy. Your gifts are your downfall.
Mary Stuart:
What now, sister?
Queen Elizabeth I:
You will still have my protection. Under my terms.
Mary Stuart:
Until you have me killed?
Queen Elizabeth I:
I will do no such thing.
Mary Stuart:
Wouldn't you? As Henry killed your mother?
Queen Elizabeth I:
I am not my father.
Mary Stuart:
But, you share his blood.
Queen Elizabeth I:
As long as you do not provoke my enemies, you have nothing to fear. Your fate rests in your own hands.
Mary Stuart:
If I seek to help your enemies, tis only because you pushed me to their arms. And should you murder me, remember that you murder your sister - and you murder your Queen.
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