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Arthur: People can present themselves as being one way, and once you’re sure you know them, once you’re sure you’ve found what you’re looking for, they reveal themselves for whom they really are.

Arthur: Sometimes wishes should never be spoken aloud as they won’t come true.

Linus: Dreams are merely that: dreams. They’re meant to be flights of fancy. They’re not necessarily supposed to come true.

Arthur: The world is a weird and wonderful place, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not without its teeth, and it will bite you when you least expect it.

Arthur: Change often starts with the smallest of whispers, like-minded people building it up into a roar.

Bilski: Once someone names your grief, you can no longer pretend it isn’t real.

Bilski: I know that life has a way of beating you up with one thing or another: I’ll health, sick kids, too many bills, broken hearts, bad jobs, or too much complacency.

Mary: Knights wear armor. Ladies wear gowns for the same reason: to conquer.

Bilski: Memory is time; time is loss; loss is life.

Bilski: At the root of parenthood there is an unspoken helplessness to how things will turn out for your kids. Maybe when you’re a young mother, you dream of grandeur fir them, but as you get older, and you watch the world and all it’s trouble, all you hope for is the absence of bad luck.

Bilski: Each era has a belief system or two that influences our view of things. We stake everything on it and pity the poor antiquated people who came before us and didn’t have the benefit of this enlightenment, this bright new wisdom.

Klune: Linus had learned early on in life that people often forgot he was there or even existed. His mother told him once as a child that he blended in with the paint on the wall.

Bilski: I think horse love is for the lonely girl at heart.

Bilski: There has been an all-out government effort to plant trees in Iceland to avoid erosion, so driving around you do see fledgling pockets of brave saplings. But the common joke is: If you get lost in the forests of Iceland, just stand up.

Sylvie: There’s something [in the East] that you can’t get here in the West. It has to do with how one lives believing in fatalism. The West has lost that. In the Middle Ages, they had the Wheel of Fortune. You spun the wheel, and the goddess Fortuna decided your fate at random.

Anton: This is becoming a habit for you, isn't it, Domek? Befriending monsters?
Domek: Apparently.

Kaja: Men are reckless when they have something powerful in their grasp, and you're a curious man.