DAKOTA > CHARACTERS QUOTES > TAKEN: EPISODE 7

Allie: "If a dream is just a dream. Something that happens in your mind while you're asleep. Then that's all right. It's yours to take with you into the morning and it fades away there in the light. But when the dreams start to come while you're awake, and they come with the light, then that is not all right.What we look for then is other people who have dreamed what we've dreamed, who have seen what we've seen. When the dreams become real sometimes the only comfort you can find is in knowing that you're not alone."

Allie: When you play a song, when you're right in the middle,are you thinking about how the song ends?

Allie: "As long as I can remember people have liked to talk to me. You know? Kind of how somebody
says something to you. Doesn't have to mean so much. It's just that it opens a door for you and you can see into a room you couldn't see into before. It doesn't really matter how you got there. The important part isyou're seeing somethingnew and different."

Allie: We read Sarah. Plain and Tall last year. This year, it's Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Allie: So this is the year I find out how everything works? The "big ideas"? And everybody takes these classes?

Allie: So then what happens, they all forget?

Allie: I don't think it's so boring.You get to watch the play come to you.

Allie: My mum didn't get mean, either. But some of the peopleshe knows did. I think people get mean when they're scared.

Allie: This is Brad. This is Devon. And this is Rich. He's the cutest.

Allie: I'm nine. I'm supposed to like this stuff.

Allie: That's my journal. I write down things I think of and stuff. Maybe sometime I could read you mine.
Allie: "I grew up, just my mom and me. I never thought a lot about who my father was or where he'd gone. I guess I knew there was something missing, but when you're a kid, your life is just your life. You don't think about all the other ways it might have been."

Allie: Your son Luke... He loved you very much. I just thought you should know.

Allie: "I think when you're older, what gets hard is that you forget how to take things as they come. And sometimes, the things that do come are more than anyone should have to take."

Allie: I don't really know what happened. There were some people... And I started to run... And then... I don't know what happened.

Allie: You really think if you're cruel enough to other people, all your own misery will go away?

Allie: I felt good about this guy as soon as I saw him.

Allie: That was the lady in the park, the one who tried to grab me.

Allie: What I do is I fool myself. I make myself believe I'm really going to cover. Because I believe it, he believes it.

Allie: I don't know. I'm afraid if I ever stop to think about it, it won't work anymore.

Allie: I'm not sure yet, but I think we're gonna find out soon.

Allie: This is the year for the "big ideas," right?

Allie: You don't have to be scared, Mum. This is all going to be all right. A lot of things are going to happen because of this. That's all. But it's going to be all right.

Allie: Mr Watson? Luke, when he died, he wasn't mad at you anymore. He knew. It was just one of those things that happens. He was growing up, and that was hard for you both. He loved you very, very much, Mr Watson. And that's what he was thinking when he died. He knows, Mr Watson. He knows.

Allie: I always figured that was just because I'm your only daughter and you love me so much.

Allie: Nothing you do is going to change anything about what happened to you, Mr Morrison. That man in the woods when you were eight. The one that took you in that shed. He wasn't from another planet. He was just mean and crazy. You're just going to hurt more people, that's all. It's not going to make what happened to you go away. It would be easier, wouldn't it? Blame it on them. They came down and took you. It's a lot scarier to think that the monsters might be us.

Allie: Look at me, Dad.

Allie: No. This is Allie. We're all going to come out of the building now. Please tell everybody not to shoot. I'll go with you.

Credit: Lucas

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