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The Man in the Moon Quotes

"Remember when you couldn't wait for your life to begin... and then, one day, it did?"

PG-13 1991 · 1h 39m
74
Audience
74
Audience
13 quotes
Confronting Perceptions of Maturity and Experience
Court Have you ever been kissed before?
Dani Sure. Lots of times.
Court Yeah... I'll bet. Well you just almost got yourself more than kissed, little girl.
Dani I'm not a little girl.
Court You are too Dani! You're a little girl and you don't know what you're doing.
A Father's Trust in His Daughter's Care
Matthew What time you got?
Billy 6:13.
Matthew You're responsible for my daughter for the next 5 hours and 7 minutes.
Billy Yes sir, Mr. Trant. You don't have a thing to worry about.
Matthew Then neither will you.
Embracing Life's Uncertainties and Fears
Dani I'm afraid nothing's ever gonna make sense again.
Maureen Maybe life's not supposed to make sense.
Dani Doesn't that scare you?
Maureen Yes.
Dani I wish we could still talk to the Man in the Moon. Don't you?
Maureen It would be nice.
Dani Will we always talk like this?
Maureen Always.
The Complexity of Strong Feelings
Dani Trant Maureen, have you ever liked somebody so much, it almost made you sick?
Desire for Deeper Connection
Dani I wanna know you.
Court You do know me.
Dani I wanna know you more... I wanna know you all I can.
Court What do you wanna know?
Dani I wanna know... your hopes.
Court Well... I hope your boobs will get bigger and your butt will fill out.
Understanding Through Care and Effort
Dani Trant When two people really care about each other, they try to understand things. Even when it's hard.
Growing Up and Missing the Moment
Matthew She's getting too big to be running around wild as a jack rabbit.
[about Dani]
Abigail It used to be she was too little, and now she's too big. I guess she passed up just right when nobody was lookin'.
Navigating Unwanted Company and Kindness
Court You know you don't have to come along.
Dani Are you sure you can find your way, it's an awful big town.
Court Are you always in the habit of going where you're not wanted or is this a new thing with you?
Dani Are you always this nice to people you just met or are you practicin up to be a horse's butt?
First Kiss Expectations and Reality
Dani I want you to be the first boy I ever kiss.
Court I thought you'd been kissed "so many times.
Court How was that?
Dani Perfect.
Navigating Sisterly Relationships and Forgiveness
Matthew Now, Dani, you and Maureen are gonna be sisters for a long time. Maureen's been good to you all your days. Remember that.
Dani Don't ask me to forgive her.
Matthew You got a right to be upset. You got a right to be hurt.
Dani You don't know what she did.
Matthew I know enough. But I also know that Maureen's hurting real bad...as much as you...maybe even more. And if you get so involved in your own pain that you can't see when someone else is hurting, you might as well crawl into a hole and pull the dirt right in on top of you cause you'll never be any good to yourself...or to anyone else.
The Burden of Age and Understanding
Court Well maybe if you were just a little bit older, you could understand.
Dani If I were just a little older, I could do everything. Couldn't I, Court?
Expressions of Love and Affection
Dani I love ] so much.
[[Elvis]
Maureen You love everybody so much.
Dani I do not.
Maureen You do, too.
Dani No I don't.
Maureen Okay, you don't.
Dani Well, I don't. Maureen, sometimes you make me feel like such a baby.
Maureen You are a baby.
Dani I wish I could be just like you.
Maureen Don't talk silly.
Dani It's not silly. You're the smartest girl in school, you're so pretty it hurts - the boys fall all over themselves when you walk down the street. And I'm just a lump.
Conflicted Feelings in Love and Relationships
Dani I love you, Court.
Court Don't! Don't love me now. When things are so mixed up.