My Sister's Keeper (2009) - Quotes

Unexpected Encounter in the Waiting Room

Secretary: [Over the intercom] Your 11 o'clock appointment is here.

Alexander: I don't have an 11 o'clock appointment.

Secretary: [Through door] Wait, you can't go in there!

Sara: Get your hands off me. Mr. Alexander, I'm Sara Fitzgerald, Anna's mother.

Alexander: [To secretary] It's okay, Gloria.

Gloria: Are you sure? Because I don't mind calling security.

Alexander: [Gloria leaves] No, no. Thank you. What can I do for you, Mrs. Fitzgerald?

Sara: [Reaching into her bag, taking out a card and handing it to him] The legal age for emancipation of a minor is 14 in the state of California. It's the law, you might want to check it out. Anna is only 11.

Alexander: I'm aware of the law she's challenging.

Sara: She can't. She's too young to stand for herself.

Alexander: I'm filing for her as guardian ad litem.

Sara: As what? A family independence agency?

Alexander: [Hands the power of attorney over to her] I have 15 years as a volunteer member of the ACLU. In addition to which, I have this power of attorney signed by your daughter.

Sara: [reading] This'll never hold up. It's not even legal.

Alexander: Anna doesn't want to do it any more. And 11 years old or not, she has rights. And so long as she wants to move forward, I am going to help her.

Sara: Why? What's your interest? This isn't a case for you. There's no money!

Alexander: [outraged] What's my interest!? Eight hospitalizations in eleven years, six catheterizations, two bone-marrow aspirations, two stem-cell purges!

Sara: [Indignantly] She was helping her sister!

Alexander: [Ignoring her] Not to mention the side effects, including bleeding, infections, bruising. Filgrastim shots! Those are growth hormones, am I correct?

Sara: Something like that.

Alexander: Drugs for nausea, opiates for pain, Ambien for sleep. Not exactly the proper medication for a pre-teen!

Sara: Every procedure had its risks and complications! Anna understood that, she was okay with it!

Alexander: Really?

Sara: Yeah!

Alexander: At five years old?

Sara: [Angrily] Oh my God, you're good. You're really good. You know, I've seen your commercials, right? I mean, who hasn't! I always thought you were some sort of headline-seeking hack, but you have real talent. You almost had me believing that you cared about Anna!

Alexander: [Coldly] Funny, I was about to say the same thing to you.

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Family Conversations and Zodiac Signs

Kate: Want to hear our routine?

Sara: What routine?

Anna: [lowers voice, imitating a male] Hey baby, what's your sign?

Kate: Cancer.

Anna: You're a cancer?

Kate: No, I'm a Leo.

Both girls: But I have cancer.

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A Patient's Reluctance for a Sample

Nurse: We need a urine sample.

Kate: But I don't have to go.

Nurse: Then drink something.

Kate: But I'm not thirsty.

Nurse: Drink something, don't drink something, I don't care, but that cup better be filled when I get back. (walks away)

Kate: What a bitch.

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Questioning Paternity and Parental Identity

Brian: These your kids?

Sara: Yes, they are. Question is, are they yours?

Brian: I believe that.

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A Conversation About Attraction and Opinions

Kate: (After Taylor walks away) So, what do you think?

Nurse: Girl, that boy is fine.

Kate: I know, right?

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Casual Conversation at Happy Hour

Kate: What are you in here for?

Taylor: The free cocktails.

Kate: Right, happy hour.

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Family Tensions and Emotional Distance

Brian: Your mom just needs a little time to cool off.

Anna: Yeah, I heard her, Get her out of here. I don't want to see her face anymore.

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Legal Battle Over Bodily Autonomy

Anna: I want to sue my parents for the rights to my own body.

Campbell Alexander: Would you repeat that, please?

Anna: I want to sue my parents for the right to my own body. My sister has leukemia. They are trying to force me to give her my body parts.

Campbell: You're supposed to give her a kidney?

Anna: She has been in renal failure for months now.

Campbell: Well, no one can force you to donate if you don't want to, can they?

Anna: They think they can. I'm under eighteen, they're my legal guardians.

Campbell: They can't do that.

Anna: Well that's what I want you to tell them because they have been doing it to me my whole life. I wouldn't even be alive if Kate wasn't sick. I'm a designer baby. I was made in a dish to be spare parts for Kate.

Campbell: You're kidding, right? You do know what will happen if you don't give her your kidney, right?

Anna: Yeah, she will die.

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A Simple Conversation Between Sisters

Sara: Where are you going?

Kate: Bathroom, wanna come?

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The Price of Survival and Sacrifice

Campbell Alexander: The kid wasn't lying. The doctor started taking things from her the moment she was born. Cord blood as an infant, white blood cell transfusions, bone marrow, lymphocytes, injections to add more stem cells, then they took them, too, but it was never enough.

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Navigating Life with Unique Challenges

Campbell Alexander: I have an iron lung, and Judge helps me steer clear of magnets.

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Unexpected First Impressions in My Sister's Keeper

Campbell Alexander: When Anna Fitzgerald first stepped into my office I thought she was selling girl scout cookies.

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A Desperate Offer for Help

Kate Fitzgerald: I don't have any money, but ll pay you in sexual favors.

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The Impact of Illness on Family Dynamics

Kate Fitzgerald: I don't mind my disease killing me, but it's killing my family, too.

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Kate's Question About Beauty

Kate Fitzgerald: Do I look pretty, Daddy?

Unexpected Breakthrough in a Tense Moment

Jesse Fitzgerald: She kicked the door down?!

Acknowledging one's own insanity

Jesse Fitzgerald: You know you're nuts, right?

Family Disconnection in Times of Crisis

Jesse Fitzgerald: Nobody is saying anything, but seeing everyone together let's me know that this is serious. Our family is kind of disconnected. Dad's relatives are wealthy and distant, and Mom's side drive her crazy. So besides Aunt Kelly, we never get to really see everybody except on holidays or disasters.

Contrasting Forces: Healing and Depletion

Sara Fitzgerald: The radiation, which ultimately put Kate into remission, worked its magic by wearing her down. Taylor Ambrose, a drug of an entirely different sort, worked his magic by building her up.

A Mother's Determination to Save Her Child

Sara Fitzgerald: I'm not going to let her die. You know that, right?

Confronting the Reality of Cancer

Sara Fitzgerald: Oncology? But that's cancer.

Reflecting on Lost Innocence and Happiness

Sara Fitzgerald: It's hard to imagine now, that there was a time before all this happened, when the kids were just kids and everyone was happy

Reflections on Sisterhood and Loss

Anna Fitzgerald: Once upon a time I thought I was put on earth to save my sister. And in the end I couldn't do it. I realize now that wasn't the point. The point was I had a sister. She was fantastic. One day I'm sure I'll see her again. But until then our relationship continues...

Family Dynamics Amidst Illness and Change

Anna Fitzgerald: That's my Mom and Aunt Kelly making dinner. Since my sister got sick, things have changed, Aunt Kelly only works part time and Mom quit her job as a lawyer. Her life now revolves around keeping Kate alive, cooking and cleaning, everything steamed, organic, and germ-free. I guess you could say we're a little dysfunctional, but we all love each other and we do the best we can.

A Child's Plea for Recognition and Importance

Anna Fitzgerald: I'm important too, Mom! I'm important too!

Anna's Statement About Kate's Condition

Anna Fitzgerald: That's my sister Kate. She's dying.

Reflections on Life and Health Choices

Anna Fitzgerald: Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Kate had been healthy, I'd probably still be up in heaven or wherever, waiting to be attached to a body down here on earth, but coincidence or not, I'm here.

The Nature of Existence and Purpose

Anna Fitzgerald: When I was a kid, my mother told me that I was a little piece of blue sky that came into this world cause she and dad loved me so much. It was only later that I realized that it wasn't exactly true. Most babies are coincidences. I mean up in space you've got all of these souls flying around, looking for bodies to live in, then down here on earth two people have sex or whatever and bam, coincidence. Sure you hear all these stories about how everyone plans these perfect families. But the truth is, most babies are products of drunken evenings and lack of birth control. They're accidents. Only people who have trouble making babies actually plan for them. I on the other hand, am not a coincidence. I was engineered, born for a particular reason. A scientist hooked up my mother's eggs and my father's sperm to make a specific combination of genes. He did it to save my sister's life.