DAKOTA > CHARACTERS QUOTES > TAKEN: EPISODE 8

Allie: "I guess I always knew that there was something different about me. But when all of this began to happen, when I started to be able to do things, it was kind of scary-like in a dream where you start falling and it feels kind of good, until you begin to wonder if you'll ever be able to stop."

Allie: I wanted you to leave my mum and all the other people alone. I was afraid you might hurt someone. I thought if I went with you, they'd be all right.

Allie: We might just be the beginning.

Allie: Your grandfather wasn't a very happy man. Why are you trying so hard to be like him?

Allie: "When you've done something that you can't take back, something that you don't understand, you start to hold tightly to the things you do understand, and you try to make sense out of everything you can. Because if you believed that all you had to do to make things right was find a reason, but what happens when you find the reasons and they are not your own? How do you find any comfort or any sense in that?"

Allie: I'm cold.

Allie: "We had come to the time I had always known was coming. I had always had this feelings that one day I would have to do something very hard. I just hoped that I could find a way to do it without anyone getting hurt."

Allie: I'm all right.

Allie: I was afraid they'd hurt other people.

Allie: I don't feel very brave right now.

Allie: If it wouldn't make you
too sad to remember her... I'd like to hear the story.

Allie: My mum, too.My mum's great.

Allie: "Most of the fights people have are about something simple-you want something the other person has or maybe they're afraid you're going to want it, and they go after you first. People always think that if they win, then that's the end, everything will be all right from then on. But everything changes, and tomorrow, the thing you were fighting for will just be a memory. Like everything else, it's already happened."

Allie: "My mother used to sing to me a lot, folk songs mostly, and things she liked when she was a little girl. There was this one song called "Further Along" that always made me feel better when I was sad. "Further along, we'll know more about it/Further along we'll understand why/cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine/we'll understand it all, by and by." When you get to wondering too much about things, a song like that can really help a lot."

Allie: Thanks for the book.

Allie: I'm not quite sure. I'm important to the- do you guys call them aliens?

Allie: Okay, the aliens. And your general figures they'll come get me.

Allie: They're my other family. I'm part them.

Allie: Maybe they're not as different as you think.

Allie: Can I ask you something? Are you mad at them?

Allie: But you'll fight with them just the same? Grownups are weird.

Allie: What do you want it to say?

Credit: Lucas

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