“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” quotes

(2005)
Movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Ken Kwapis directed this movie in 2005
Title The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Year 2005
Director Ken Kwapis
Genre Drama, Comedy, Family
Plot – Four inseparable friends - Lena, Carmen, Bridget and Tibby - don't spend the summer together for the first time since they were born. Lena goes to visit her relatives in Greece, Carmen spends her holidays with her father in South Carolina, Bridget trains herself in a Mexican campus and Tibby works on her first film. A special pair of jeans will keep them in touch.
All actors – Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford, Nancy Travis, Rachel Ticotin, Mike Vogel, Michael Rady, Leonardo Nam, Maria Konstadarou, George Touliatos, Kyle Schmid, Erica Hubbard, Emily Tennant, Jacqueline Ann Steuart, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Ernie Lively, Kendall Cross, Kristie Marsden, Patricia Mayen-Salazar, Patricia Drake, Katie Stuart, Diana Artuso, Jonathon Young, Beverley Elliott, Victoria Tennant, Alanna Dawn Ekkert, Tiara Santana, Ashley Hale, J.B. McEown, Charles Andrew Payne, Marek Wiedman, Georgia Craig, Mary Black, Chic Gibson, Nicole Potvin, Lauren Jarrar, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Valerie Tian, Alisha Penev, Brenda James, Keith Dallas, Terence Kelly, Kirsten Alter, Cannon Smith, Efi Papatheodorou, Olga Archontoy, Mariana Arvanitou, Despina Alefragi, Giorgos Zarokostas, Alana Belton, Anoop Virk, Rebecca Williams, Angela Hodgson, Clayton Al Leung, Genevieve Mac Kay, Sarah Tippett, Michaelis Feroussis, Jorgos Makrakis, Chronis Mandas, , Stream
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  • “In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given, the most sacred. Turn your back on them and that is when you truly have nothing.”
    Maria Konstadarou - Yia Yia
    [Tag:family, values]
  • “I am afraid. There's a part of me that wants to let him in, but then I feel myself put this wall up and I don't understand why.”

    Alexis Bledel - Lena
    [Tag:fear, love]
  • “- Lena: We know now that no matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths...
    - Bridget: Somehow we would always find out way back to each other.”

    Alexis Bledel - Lena
    Blake Lively - Bridget
  • “- Lena: I'm kind of jealous of her. Because she knows who she is.
    - Kostas: Don't you?
    - Lena: I don't know. I think I know who I wanna be.”

    Alexis Bledel - Lena
    Michael Rady - Kostas
  • “I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be, to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.”
    Jenna Boyd - Bailey
  • “- Carmen: We have gathered here today to celebrate a magical gift that has been given to us...
    - Tibby: Then why had we to pay for it?”

    America Ferrera - Carmen
    Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
    [Tag:ceremony, money]
  • “It's okay to miss her. I mean, as hard as it is to be sad about it, don't you think maybe it's harder not to be?”

    America Ferrera - Carmen
    [Tag:death, mother, sorrow]
  • “- Tibby: How old are you, anyway? 10?
    - Bailey: I'm 12!
    - Tibby: Same difference. - Bailey: No, when I was 10, I didn't have an iPod.
    - Tibby: You're so cool. And what do you listen to on there, teletubbies hit parade?”

    Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
    Jenna Boyd - Bailey
  • “- Bridget: I just want to feel good and happy and alive. Because if I feel alive then it doesn't seem like she's dead. And if I'm not sad then it proves that I'm not like her.
    - Carmen: You don't have to prove that to anybody. You have a strength in you that your mom never had. As much as she wanted to, she couldn't find it.”

    Blake Lively - Bridget
    America Ferrera - Carmen
  • “Despite everything he's suffered he can still look at life in the most uncomplicated way. I've never known that kind of faith. It makes me so sad that people who have lost everything can still be open to love, while I, who have lost nothing, am not.”

    Alexis Bledel - Lena
    [Tag:faith, life, obstacles]
  • “Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.”
    Michael Rady - Kostas
  • “- Bailey: You know what I like most about the stars? You look at them, at all of them up there and you just know there's gotta be something more than...
    - Tibby: Life?
    - Bailey: There has to be.”

    Jenna Boyd - Bailey
    Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
    [Tag:heaven, life, stars]
  • “- Tibby: You were right, and I was wrong, but I'm wrong about most people.
    - Bailey: The important thing is you always change your mind about them.”

    Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
    Jenna Boyd - Bailey
  • “- Tibby: What is she doing here?
    - Bailey: She's thinking.
    - Tibby: I think she's trying to grow a brain, that's what.”

    Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
    Jenna Boyd - Bailey
  • “You can pretend that you don't understand me, but I know you do. What no-one ever sees is that there's this whole other part of me that's just like you: quiet, stubborn, and afraid of showing too much. Then I met someone who changed everything and he showed me that I can take a chance even when it's only for a moment.”

    Alexis Bledel - Lena
  • “You've found yourself this new family and I feel like some outsider that doesn't even belong to you anymore. It's like you traded me and mom in for something that you thought was better. And I wanna know why. Are you ashamed of me? Are you embarrassed? What did I do wrong? You just seem so happy about being Paul and Chris's dad, but you never...” (continue)(continue reading)

    America Ferrera - Carmen
  • “It happened just how I always imagined it would. So why do I feel this way? How can something that's supposed to make you feel so complete end up leaving you so empty?”
    Blake Lively - Bridget
  • “It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now I feel like our lives changed because they had to, and that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us together when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again.”

    America Ferrera - Carmen
  • “The truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life to be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things; making those count for more than the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it and that's all we can ask for.”

    Jenna Boyd - Bailey
    [Tag:happiness, life]
  • “You're the one who walks around saying screw the world because that's easier than having to feel something!”

    America Ferrera - Carmen
    [Tag:feeling]
  • “- Tibby: Maybe sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people you trust.
    - Carmen: Why?
    - Tibby: Because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”

    Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
    America Ferrera - Carmen
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