DAKOTA > CHARACTERS QUOTES > TAKEN: EPISODE 6

Allie: "Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? if it is, does that make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in, too? After you hit the ball, do you stand and wait to see if it goes out, or do you start running and let nature take its course?"

Allie: "People say that when we grow up, we kick at everything we've been told, we rebel against the world our parents have worked so hard to bring us into, that part of growing up is kicking at the ties that bind. But I don't think that's why we kick at all. I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all."

Allie: "My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. It's not your old life at all, but your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were. Your choice is about hiding, or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you."

Allie: "Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps, to do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small, familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed, but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be."

Allie: "My mom says that life is like a roller coaster ride. There are ups and downs, there are big scares and slow builds and places where it levels out. The only difference with this roller coaster is that every time it stops, you get off in someplace totally different from where you got on."

Allie: "I remember the first time that I ever saw dolphins. I was three. It was the first time in my life I can remember knowing that something was beautiful...and it was the first time I had the feeling that there was something about me that was different from everybody else."

Credit: Spielberg Films

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