DAKOTA > CHARACTERS QUOTES > TAKEN: EPISODE 5

Allie: "Some people spend their lives hoping for something to happen that will change everything. They look for power, or love, or the answers to their biggest questions. I think really what they're looking for is another chance, some way to lead another life, where all the mistakes they've made would be erased, and they could just start over. Nothing bad has happened yet, and all their possibilities are still in front of them."

Allie: "People come home for a lot of reasons. They come home to remember, they come home because they've got no place else to go, they come home when they're beaten, they come home when they're proud. They come looking for a door out into their past, or a road out into their future. They come home for a lot of reasons. But they always come home to say goodbye."

Allie: "Some people put a lot of work into their lawn, as if a patch of green grass was the most important thing in the world. As if they thought that as long as the lawn out front was green and mowed and beautiful, it wouldn't matter at all what was going on inside of the house."

Allie: "Do you know the feeling of daring yourself to walk across a dark room? That way you're excited, because you know, you really do know that there's nothing there to hurt you. Some people get to chose their dark rooms. They get to look for places where the fear is only skin deep, but some people are nowhere near that lucky."

Allie: "When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things happen for."

Allie: "What makes a man who he is? Is it the worst things he's ever done? Or the best things he wants to be? When you find yourself in the middle of your life and you're nowhere near where you were going, how do you find a way from the person you've become, to the one you know you could have been?"

Allie: "People move through their lives sometimes without really thinking about where they're going. Days pile up, and they get sadder and lonelier without really knowing why they're so sad, or how they got so lonely. Then something happens. They meet someone who looks a certain way, or has something in their smile,. Maybe that's all that falling in love is: finding someone who makes you feel a little less alone."

Allie: "Sometimes people come to a moment where they think they found that one last chance to be someone else and they go for it. When it doesn't work out, they spend the rest of their lives looking back over their shoulder at what might have been."

Allie: "I never met my grandfather, but my father told me that he was a very brave man. And with all that he'd done, maybe because of all he'd done, his favorite thing in all the world was to mow the lawn. My dad said he heard his father talking to a neighbor once. The neighbor asked him how he was and what he'd been doing. And my grandfather said 'I've been cutting the grass and watching it grow, cutting the grass and watching it grow.' 'Life,' he said, 'is 90% maintenance.'"

Credit: Spielberg Films

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