21 Grams (2004) - Quotes

The Weight of Guilt Explored

Taglines: How much does guilt weigh?

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Fate's Influence on Life and Death

Taglines: This Fall, fate weighs in.

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The Weight of Revenge

Taglines: How much does revenge weigh?

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The Weight of Love Explored

Taglines: How much does love weigh?

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The Weight of Life and Death

Taglines: They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a hummingbird... a chocolate bar.

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The Weight of Life Explored

Taglines: How much does life weigh?

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Choosing Life Over Hospital Confinement

Paul's doctor: The heart that you're carrying is going to give out soon. I need you to stay in the hospital until we can find you another donor.

Paul: I can't do that. I can't wait for someone to die locked up in a white room.

Paul's doctor: Your heart is going to give out sooner than you think. You will die from asphyxiation. Its not a nice death. At least here-

Paul: You can help me die better?! You can help me die better. I'm not going to do that. I'd rather die outside.

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Confrontation Over Unforgivable Actions

Paul Rivers: You shouldn't have done it

Jack Jordan: Done what?

Paul Rivers: [shouting You shouldn't have done it!

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Duty versus Family: A Difficult Decision

Jack Jordan: I'm gonna turn myself in.

Marianne Jordan: What? Why would you do that, Jack?

Jack Jordan: It's my duty.

Marianne Jordan: Your duty's to your family!

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Desperate Grief and Vengeful Rage

Cristina Peck: Katie could have lived. She'd be alive right now but that bastard left her there. Laying in the street. He left the three of them like animals. He didn't care. She could be here with me. That son of a bitch is walking the streets, and I can't even go into their room. I wanna kill him. I'm gonna kill Jack Jordan. I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch.

Paul Rivers: Slow down, just slow down.

Cristina Peck: Slow down. Slow down. While I what, huh? While I what?

Paul Rivers: Take it easy.

Cristina Peck: Take it easy? My husband and my little girls are dead, and I'm supposed to take it fucking easy? I can't just go on with my life! I am paralyzed here! I am a fucking amputee! Do you see that? Who are you? You owe it to Michael. No, you've got his heart. You're in house fucking his wife! And sitting in his chair! We have to kill him!

Paul Rivers: Not like this.

Cristina Peck: Then how? Tell me how! Katie died with red shoelaces on. She hated red shoelaces. And she kept asking me to get her some blue ones. And I never got her the blue ones. She was wearing those fucking red shoelaces when she was killed!

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Strength in Pain and Life's Continuation

Reverend John: Jesus didn't come to free us from pain. He came to give us the strength to bear it.

Marianne Jordan: Life has to go on Jack. With or without God.

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Household Rules on Violence

Jack Jordan: [After hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] There's no hitting in this house.

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Turning the Other Cheek

Jack Jordan: If someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn your other to him also.

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Tragic Consequences of a Hit-and-Run Accident

Jack Jordan: I just ran over a man and two little girls.

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The Divine Awareness of Every Detail

Jack Jordan: God knows when a single hair moves on your head.

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Understanding Emotional Boundaries in Relationships

Cristina Peck: You can't just walk up to a woman you barely know and tell her you like her. You don't know what she's going through.*

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21 Grams - Cristina Peck

Cristina Peck: I haven't spoken to anyone in months.*

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The Consequences of Seeking the Truth

Cristina Peck: Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it.

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The Irreversibility of Loss

Cristina Peck: Nothing I can do is going to bring them back.

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The Challenge of Moving On After Loss

Cristina Peck: You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on.

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The Weight of Life and Loss

Paul Rivers: How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twentyone grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh?

Recognition of Responsibility

Paul Rivers: [Holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Ah. The culprit.

The Complexity of Human Connections

Paul Rivers: There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.

Acknowledging Longstanding Deception in Relationships

Paul Rivers: We've been a fraud for a long time, Mary.

The Significance of Numbers in Life

Paul Rivers: There is a number hidden in every act of life, in every aspect of the universe. Fractals, matter-- there is a number screaming to tell us something... Numbers are a door to understanding a mystery that is bigger than us.

Connection Through the Earth's Movement

Paul Rivers: [Quoting a poem] The earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us, until it finally brought us together in this dream.

Questioning Existence in a Strange Situation

Paul Rivers: What I doing in this precorpse club?

Reflections on Death's Waiting Room

Paul Rivers: [After waking up in the emergency room] So this is death's waiting room.

Struggling with Loss and Unfulfilled Desires

Paul Rivers: I can't keep going like this. The insemination, the child. It's like we're trying to put a Band-Aid on something that's just been bled dry.