“Tuck Everlasting” quotes
(2002)Plot – Winnie Foster, a teenager who dreams of a life far from the control of her mother, meets Jesse Tuck by chance in a forest. He is different from the people she knows. He and his parents greet her as if she is part of the family. However, the Tucks hide a secret that cannot be revealed, otherwise they will be punished with the transformation of the world in which they live: after drinking water from an enchanted stream, they were victims of a spell that made them immortal and thus destined to never age.
All actors – Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, Victor Garber, Kosha Engler, Richard Pilcher, Bradley Coryell, John Badila, Julia Hart, Naomi Kline, Kathryn Kelley, Brigid Cleary, Sean Pratt, Kyle Prue, Neal Moran, Irving Jacobs, Robert Lewis, Jean Schertler, Dominic Angelella, Theresa Flynn, Elizabeth McNamara, Steve Walker, Maurice Philogene, Kelly McDaniel, Reeny Eul, Jordin McDaniel, Beau Russell, Dillion Gardner, Charlie Cooper, Lester Horn, Cynthia Webb, Stephen Szibler, Sam De Crispino, Tom McNutt, Helen E. McNutt, Megan Cooper, Mac McLure, Matthew R. Staley, Tamara Carter, Elisabeth Shue, , Robert Randolph Caton, Bob Colletti, Peter Epstein, Rick Kain, Lauren Levitt, Michelle Mulitz
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“- Young Pastor: You speak blasphemy, sir.
- Man in the Yellow Suit: Fluently.”“Immortality isn't all the preachers crack it up to be.”
“If there's one thing I've learned about people, it's that many will do anything, anything not to die. And they'll do anything to keep from living their life.”
“What we Tucks have, you can't call it living. We just... are. We're like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.”
“Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life.”
“- Winnie Foster: I can't swim.
- Jesse Tuck: You're joshing me!
- Winnie Foster: I wish I were.
- Jesse Tuck: So, you're afraid you'll drown, right? Swallow too much water, sink to the bottom and die!
- Winnie: Thank you for putting it so vividly, and yes, considering I'd sink like a rock, drowning is a fair concern!”“I'm going to see the whole world, every speck of it. Heck, I may even find some new continents or something!”
“Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel.”
“- Winnie Foster: I don't wanna die; is that wrong?
- Angus Tuck: No. No human does. But it-it's part of the wheel... the same as being born.”
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