The Tree of Life Quotes

Young Jack: [voice over]How do I get back? To where they are.

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Mrs. O'Brien: What are we to you?

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Jack: [voice over]Brother. Keep us. Guide us. To the end of time.

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[first lines]Jack: [in a whisper]Brother. Mother. It was they who led me to your door. [choir singing dirge]

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R.L.: Tell us a story from before we can remember.

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Mr. O'Brien: [voice over]You're all I have. You're all I want to have. You're a sweet boy.

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Mrs. O'Brien: Come here!
Young Jack: NO! I'm gonna do what I want to do, and you let him walk all over you.

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Young Jack: She only loves ME!

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Young Jack: I am sorry. You are my brother.

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Mrs. O'Brien: [voice over]The nuns taught us there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end. I will be true to you. Whatever comes.

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