The Station Agent Quotes

Finbar McBride: Well, there are people called train chasers. They follow a train and they film it.
Olivia Harris: Are you a train chaser?
Finbar McBride: No.
Olivia Harris: How come?
Finbar McBride: I don't know how to drive a car. And I don't own a camera.
Olivia Harris: That'd do it.

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Finbar McBride: You said you weren't going to talk to me if I sat here, Joe.
Joe Oramas: I haven't said anything in like twenty minutes. [Fin checks his pocket watch]
Finbar McBride: Nine.
Joe Oramas: You timed me?
Finbar McBride: Mm-hmm.
Joe Oramas: That's cold, bro.

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Joe Oramas: Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?
Olivia Harris: No.
Joe Oramas: How can you not have a garlic press?
Olivia Harris: [both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!
Joe Oramas: Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press! [turns back to kitchen]
Olivia Harris: [to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.
Finbar McBride: It's a nice house.
Olivia Harris: Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.
Finbar McBride: Where did you used to live?
Olivia Harris: Princeton. [glancing at Fin]
Olivia Harris: I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died. [a bit of silence falls between them]
Olivia Harris: How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?
Finbar McBride: [smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe! [Laughter spreads out gradually from them]
Joe Oramas: [leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys! [Fin and Olivia burst into laughter]
Joe Oramas: Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks! [the two keep laughing crazily]

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