Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Esther: I like it when it`s just the two of us. You don`t know how long I`ve waited for a daddy just like you.
John Coleman: Mommy too, right?
Esther: I don`t think Mommy likes me very much.
John Coleman: Hey. That`s not true, Mommy loves you.
Esther: It`s all right. It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.
John Coleman: Sweetheart, you`re just as much part of this family as Danny and Max, okay? Why don`t you do something nice for Mommy, show her how much you love her?
Esther: That`s a wonderful idea. Esther: I have a special surprise for you, Mommy!
Brenda: Oh, look, Little Bo Peep text me - she wants her outfit back.
Kate Coleman: What did you do, you little bitch?
[to Max, after smashing Sister Abigail in the head with a hammer]
Esther: Stop crying. Grab a foot, and help me get her off the road. Now!
[Holding a big rock over an unconscious Daniel`s head]
Esther: Don`t worry. You`re going to Heaven.
[Esther and Max walk up after Daniel has shot a pigeon with his paintball gun]
Esther: Did you kill it?
Daniel Coleman: [crying] It was just a paintball, I didn`t think it`d hurt him...
[She picks up a big rock and holds it out to him]
Esther: Put it out of its misery.
[off his look]
Esther: It`s in pain. And it`s your responsibility.
Daniel Coleman: It was just an accident.
Esther: If you walk away now, it`ll starve to death. Is that what you want?
[pause]
Daniel Coleman: I`m not doin` it...
[after a moment, she smashes the pigeon with the rock]
Esther: [to Max] It`s all right. It`s in Heaven now.
Daniel Coleman: What`s wrong with you?
[Kate overhears Esther playing Tchaikovsky flawlessly on the piano]
Kate Coleman: You told me you didn`t know how to play.
Esther: No I didn`t.
Kate Coleman: Yes you did.
Esther: You offered to teach me, and I accepted.
Kate Coleman: Okay... so, then, you were just... pretending, this whole time?
Esther: I thought you would enjoy teaching me. It must be frustrating for someone who loves music as much as you to have a son who isn`t interested and a daughter who can`t even hear.
Kate Coleman: What the fuck?
Esther: Please... don`t let me die, Mommy.
Kate Coleman: I`m not your fucking mommy!
Kate Coleman: Esther? We have to talk about last night.
Esther: Do we?
Kate Coleman: Yes, we do... See, there are certain things that grownups do that children aren`t supposed to see, and, uh... that was one of `em.
[a pause; Esther keeps painting]
Kate Coleman: Esther, listen to me.
[Esther turns to Kate]
Kate Coleman: When grownups love each other very, very much... they want to show each other that love; they want to express it...
Esther: I know. They fuck.
[Esther holds a box cutter to a sleeping Daniel`s neck; he wakes up]
Esther: Shhhh...
[She grabs his hair and slams his head against the pillow]
Daniel Coleman: Ah!
Esther: Tell me what you saw.
Daniel Coleman: What are you doing?
Esther: What did you see?
Daniel Coleman: [crying] I saw you and Max in the treehouse...
Esther: [pulls his hair] What else?
Daniel Coleman: What do you mean?
Esther: What else did you see?
Daniel Coleman: Nothing, I didn`t see anything else, I swear!
Esther: Did you tell anyone?
Daniel Coleman: No... I didn`t tell anyone.
[as he cries, she moves the box cutter down between his legs]
Esther: If I find out that you`re lying, I`ll cut your hairless little prick off before you even figure out what it`s for. Do you understand me?
Daniel Coleman: Yes...
[a dark stain appears on his pants]
Esther: You pissed yourself.
Daniel Coleman: [watching Esther neatly cut up her food] Can you eat normal?
Esther: I am eating normal.
Daniel Coleman: Yeah, maybe in Transylvania or whatever country you`re from.
Esther: Incidentally, I`m from Russia. Transylvania isn`t even a country. It`s a part of Romania.
Daniel Coleman: You`re such a freak.
Kate Coleman: Hey.
John Coleman: Hey, Danny... I don`t want any more talk like that, all right?
Daniel Coleman: But why does she have to act like that? All my friends make fun of me because of her.
John Coleman: Maybe you need some different friends.
Daniel Coleman: Maybe you should send her back to the retard camp where she belongs.
Kate Coleman: Daniel.
John Coleman: Daniel! Apologize to your sister.
Daniel Coleman: She`s not my *fucking* sister.
Kate Coleman: I know what you`re doing. I will not let you hurt my children.
Esther: Me? I`m not the one who passed out drunk and let Max almost drown in the pond. If it wasn`t for John, she`d be dead. And you`d probably still be in jail.
Kate Coleman: ...Who told you that?
Esther: [holds up Kate`s diary] It`s very intimate. I learned so much about you.
Kate Coleman: Give it to me.
Esther: Jessica. Your cheating husband.
Kate Coleman: Esther... give it to me.
Esther: Where you hide your wine bottles.
Kate Coleman: I`m - I`m warning you right now.
Esther: [reading] "She was still kicking when the doctor told me it was something called phantom - "
[Kate angrily snatches the diary away]
Esther: " - fetal movement. For sixteen days I carried - "
Kate Coleman: Stop it.
Esther: " - my dead baby inside me."
Kate Coleman: Esther!
Esther: "It was the cruelest torture I could imagine."
Kate Coleman: Stop it! You stop it! What`s wrong with you?
Grandma Barbara: So... what are your plans?
Kate Coleman: I`ll get Esther settled, and, uh... then go back to teaching.
Grandma Barbara: Thought they weren`t gonna take you back.
Kate Coleman: No, I`m not talkin` about Yale, I`m just... I`ll probably give lessons from home.
Grandma Barbara: That`s too bad. That was a very good job.
Kate Coleman: Yeah, well, I didn`t quit `cause I wanted to.
Grandma Barbara: I know. You had to have your moment of clarity.
Kate Coleman: That is an AA term. And I didn`t go to AA; I just stopped drinkin`.
Grandma Barbara: Same difference. We all need a wake-up call sometimes.
Trevor: Your sister`s a total spaz.
Daniel Coleman: She`s not my sister.
Esther: Kate, it`s too late. It`s your own fault. You took your family for granted.
[She tries to leave; Kate grabs her]
Kate Coleman: What do you mean?
Esther: What are you going to do? Hit me?
John Coleman: She could`ve picked it up anywhere. Hell, she probably picked it up at school.
Kate Coleman: No, this wasn`t something she overheard; I mean, she knew what it meant.
John Coleman: Huh.
Kate Coleman: And, and babe, the *way* she said it, is, I don`t even think she expected to get in trouble over it.
John Coleman: Well... we`ll talk to her about it tonight.
Kate Coleman: [sighs] Fine...
John Coleman: Well, what did you have in mind?
Kate Coleman: Thought we could take her to Dr. Browning.
John Coleman: [chuckles] I don`t think we need to take her to the shrink quite yet.
Kate Coleman: Well, you know, we just don`t know that much about her, I mean... for all we know the, the family she stayed with could`ve been like, "Pass the fuckin` potatoes" at dinnertime.
[John laughs]
Kate Coleman: I, just, that she`s saying it to my face, what`s she saying when we`re not there? I don`t want her exerting that kind of influence over Max.
John Coleman: Anyway, I just don`t wanna make a big deal out of one little dirty word.
Kate Coleman: Fine... fuckin` spend some time with her, then.
John Coleman: A`ight, bitch.
Esther: I think people should always try to take the bad things that happen to them in their lives, and turn them into something good. Don`t you?
Sister Abigail: I`m afraid I... may have made a mistake. I think there could be something wrong with Esther.
John Coleman: What? What do you mean? You told us that you never had any trouble with her.
Sister Abigail: I didn`t. But trouble does have a way of finding her.
Kate Coleman: Go to your room.
Esther: Honestly, we`re past that now, aren`t we?
John Coleman: Where`d you get the idea for this one?
Esther: My paintings always tell stories. This one`s about a sad mother lion who can`t find her cubs.
John Coleman: She`s smiling.
Esther: She`s dreaming about her babies. It`s the only thing that makes her happy.
John Coleman: I hope she finds them.
Esther: She will. Look.
[She begins painting the cubs]
Esther: They were lost in the jungle, and they were so scared because they didn`t have a mother or father. But just when they thought they`d be alone forever, they found their mother asleep under this tree. Now when she wakes up, her dream will have come true. She`ll have her family again.
Esther: Going somewhere, Kate?
John Coleman: She painted all these.
Kate Coleman: Really?
John Coleman: Yeah.
Kate Coleman: These are fantastic. These are really wonderful.
Esther: Thank you.
Kate Coleman: Well, where did you learn how to do this?
Esther: I`ve just had lots of time to practice, I guess. It`s really boring here.
Kate Coleman: It`s boring here? Hey, if you`re so bored, then why aren`t you down at the party?
Esther: I`ve never really seen the point of it. Nobody`s ever talked to me before. I guess I`m different.
Kate Coleman: There`s nothing wrong with being different, you know.
John Coleman: Well, you two have a lot in common.
John Coleman: Kate... Kate. You can`t get jealous of every woman that I talk to, right? It`s been like, ten years.
Kate Coleman: What does that mean, "It`s been ten years"? You say that like it, it, it actually means something. It`s only been two years since you told me.
John Coleman: You know how sorry I am; I just feel like I`ve earned a little trust here. I gave you a second chance.
Kate Coleman: That`s not fair... that`s not fair.
John Coleman: Let me get this straight: We can talk about my mistakes, but not yours?
Kate Coleman: I was sick! You`re an asshole who wanted to fuck somebody else!
Max Coleman: [signing] You tricked me.
Esther: That doesn`t matter. They`ll send you to jail just for helping me hide her. I had to kill her, because she was going to tell on me. You`re not going to tell on me... are you?
[as Daniel rummages through his treehouse, Esther suddenly enters behind him]
Esther: Are you looking for this?
[pulls the hammer and her bloody clothes from Max`s backpack]
Esther: Poor Sister Abigail. I couldn`t have done it myself, you know. Max is just as guilty as I am.
Daniel Coleman: Whatever Max did, you made her do it!
Esther: Think about it.
[pulls Max`s drawings from her pocket]
Esther: How did she even know what was up here? It`s always better to burn the evidence.
[begins spraying lighter fluid on the pile]
Esther: If they find these things, they won`t just be coming for me. They`ll be coming for Max, too.
[lights a match]
Esther: Is it really what you want?
Daniel Coleman: Wait!
[She drops the match and sprays more fluid all over the floor]
Daniel Coleman: What are you doing? Are you crazy?
[pointing a revolver at Max`s head]
Esther: Do you want to play?
Saarne Institute Orderly: Hello?
Kate Coleman: Is this the Saarne Institute?
Saarne Institute Orderly: Yes.
Kate Coleman: Yes, I, I need to talk to somebody about, uh, one of your children. She was adopted by an American family. It`s a girl.
Saarne Institute Orderly: She is not come from here...
Kate Coleman: Well, I haven`t even told you her name yet.
Saarne Institute Orderly: You do not understand. Saarne Institute is not an orphanage, it is a mental hospital.
[whispering into Max`s hearing aid]
Esther: I`ll shoot Mommy if you tell.
Grandma Barbara: Esther and Maxine seem to be getting along well.
Kate Coleman: Yeah.
Grandma Barbara: How`s she doing, Kate?
Kate Coleman: Esther`s fittin` right in.
Grandma Barbara: I meant Maxine. She`s playing by the pond like nothing ever happened. She doesn`t remember anything, does she?
[first lines]
John Coleman: Hang on. I know. You`re doin` so good. You`re doin` so good, honey. You all right?
Kate Coleman: Yeah.
[last lines]
Kate Coleman: [to Max] Baby, it`s okay...
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