DAKOTA > CHARACTERS QUOTES > TAKEN: EPISODE 10

Allie: I just want to be home listening to my CDs... playing soccer with my friends.

Allie: I'm just a little kid. I didn't ask anyone to make me special.

Allie: A lot's been goin' on.

Allie: "People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do, every plan we make is kind of a lie. We're closing our eyes and pretending the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. You have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all."

Allie: Want a granola bar? They're not as healthy as they say on the wrapper. They've got a lot of sugar in them.

Allie: You eat food, don't you?

Allie: I don't want to do this.

Allie: At the gas station, I was gonna make those men hurt each other.

Allie: I almost did. I don't want to hurt people.

Allie: How do I make this stop? I mean, if I couldn't do any of those things, then people would leave me alone, wouldn't they?

Allie: I'm not going to go with you. I belong here with my family.

Allie: I already told him I wasn't going to go with him.

Allie: You mean no one will be able to find me?

Allie: "How do you let someone go? How do you understand that that's alright, that everything changes? How do you find a way for that to make you feel good about life instead of breaking your heart? The hardest thing you'll ever learn is how to say good-bye."

Allie: "They will be coming soon, coming to try to stop what was going to happen next. But maybe they could be stopped. Maybe something could happen that would make it hard for them to do what they wanted to do."

Allie: I know you're all scared, and you don't have to be scared anymore.

Allie: You have something in your heads. It lets them know where you are. I can shut them off. When they shut off, they'll fall out. Don't be scared. They won't come
for you anymore. They won't be able to find you. No one's going to take you. It doesn't seem right to, uh, interfere with us the way they did. Maybe not to us,
but if we saw this from someplace else, it was just time for this to happen.

Allie: Do you think if we'd been regular people, Charlie would have lived with us, and we could have been a family?

Allie: I don't want to go. I want to stay here with you.

Allie: If I stay here, people will kill each other. I don't want that to happen because of me.

Allie: There's nothing we can do.

Allie: I didn't ask for this! I want to be a little girl! I just want to be a little girl!

Allie: Charlie... I'm glad you turned out to be my dad.

Allie: I love you, too, Daddy.

Allie: I have to go.

Allie: I love you, too, Mama.

Allie: "I don't know what will happen next. I don't know what I'm going to be, what I'm going to learn, but what I do know is this-life, all life, is about asking questions, not about knowing answers. It is wanting to see what's over the next hill that keeps us all going. We have to keep asking questions, wanting to understand. Even when we know we'll never find the answers, we have to keep on asking the questions."

Allie: "My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky. She liked to watch the clouds in the day and the stars at night...especially the stars. We would play a game sometimes, a game called "What's Beyond the Sky?" We would imagine darkness or a blinding light or something else that we didn't know how to name. But of course, that was just a game. There's nothing beyond the sky. The sky just is, and it goes on and on, and we play all of our games beneath it."

Credit: Lucas

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