32 quotes
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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The Weight of Loss and Its Impact
Paul Rivers
They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?
[From trailer]
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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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21 Grams - Cristina Peck
Cristina Peck
I haven't spoken to anyone in months.*
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Acknowledging Longstanding Deception in Relationships
Paul Rivers
We've been a fraud for a long time, Mary.
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Connection Through the Earth's Movement
Paul Rivers
The earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us, until it finally brought us together in this dream.
[Quoting a poem]
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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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Questioning Existence in a Strange Situation
Paul Rivers
What I doing in this precorpse club?
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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?
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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.
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Reflections on Death's Waiting Room
Paul Rivers
So this is death's waiting room.
[After waking up in the emergency room]
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The Weight of Revenge
Taglines
How much does revenge weigh?
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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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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 Love Explored
Taglines
How much does love weigh?
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Desire for Escape and Anonymity
Paul Rivers
Just... disappear.
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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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The Weight of Life Explored
Taglines
How much does life weigh?
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Eating Alone and Health Risks
Paul Rivers
Did you know that eating alone could cause kidney damage? And that's BAD.
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Fate's Influence on Life and Death
Taglines
This Fall, fate weighs in.
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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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Recognition of Responsibility
Paul Rivers
Ah. The culprit.
[Holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart]
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The Complexity of Human Connections
Paul Rivers
There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.
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The Irreversibility of Loss
Cristina Peck
Nothing I can do is going to bring them back.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Household Rules on Violence
Jack Jordan
There's no hitting in this house.
[After hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister]
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The Weight of Guilt Explored
Taglines
How much does guilt weigh?
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