Train Dreams (film)

"Were but children on this earth pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods."

"Not too many folks I cross paths with more than once in this life. I see it is a blessing when theyre brought back around."

"A tree was a friend if you let it alone. But the second the blade bit in, you had yourself a war and the tree was a killer."

"Kerry Condon - Claire Thompson"

"You just go through what you go through."

"Branden Lindsay - Elijah Brown"

"When Robert Grainier died in his sleep sometime in November of 1968, his life ended as quietly as it had begun. Hed never purchased a firearm or spoken into a telephone. He had no idea who his parents might have been, and he left no heirs behind him. But on that spring day, as he misplaced all sense of up and down, he felt, at last, connected to it all."

"Seeing Kate again felt as real as anything else in his life, even as he wondered if it really happened to him. He spent many days and evenings wandering the forests and fields of the region, looking for any sign of her. Though he found none, he spent the rest of his days waiting, so he would be there if she ever came back."

"In the forest, every least things important. Its all threaded together. So you cant tell where one thing ends and another begins. If you really look at it, the little insects you cant even see, they play a role as vital as the river. The dead tree is as important as the living one. There must be something for us to learn from that."

"The world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit."

"There were once passageways to the old world; strange trails, hidden paths. Youd turn a corner and suddenly find yourself face-to-face with the great mystery, the foundation of all things. And even though that old world is gone now, even though its been rolled up like a scroll and put somewhere, you can still feel the echo of it."

"Thats where all those myths come from, you know? All those flood stories. All those different religions all over the world. Its just the same story, different slants."