Benjamin
Button
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Daisy [Age 10]: Where are you going?Benjamin Button: To sea. I'll send you a postcard.
Daisy [Age 10]: From everywhere. Write me a postcard from everywhere...
Benjamin Button: [narrating] Her name was Elizabeth Abbott. She was not beautiful. She was plain as paper. But she was as pretty as any picture to me.
[after she has removed her shoes and left the elevator. Benjamin give her a quizzical look]
Elizabeth Abbott: I broke a heel! I don't make it a point to walk about in my stocking feet!
Elizabeth Abbott: You haven't been with many women, have you?
Benjamin Button: Not on Sundays.
Benjamin Button: I feel so much younger when I'm with you.
Elizabeth Abbott: That's such a nice thing to say. You make me feel years younger, too. I wish I was. I would change so many things. I would undo all of my mistakes.
Benjamin Button: What mistakes?
Elizabeth Abbott: I kept waiting, thinking I would do something to change my circumstance. Do something. But I never did. It's an awful waste, you can never get it back...wasted time.
Elizabeth Abbott: If we're going to have an affair, you're never to look at me during the day, we must always part by sunrise, and we can never say "I love you".
Benjamin Button: [narrating] She was the first woman who ever loved me.
[Benjamin receives a note from Elizabeth Abbott]
Benjamin Button: [narrating] She had left a note. She wrote, it was nice to have met you." That was it.
[after getting shot]
Captain Mike: You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
The Girl: Who is that mama?
Queenie: Your brother, Benjamin
The Girl: I didn't know he was my brother.
Queenie: [laughs] There's a shit load of things you don't know child.
Benjamin Button: [narrating] It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.
Daisy: Benjamin I've been with older men.
Benjamin Button: You're going back to New York in the morning, you should be with your friends, you're only young once.
Daisy: I'm old enough.
Benjamin Button: [narrating] Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Benjamin Button: [narrating] While everybody else was aging...I was getting younger... all alone...
Daisy: I did what you told me to...enjoy my life...I'm only going to be young once...I had no idea you were coming. What did you think I was going to do? You can't expect me to just drop everything, Benjamin...this is my life...
Benjamin Button: [narrating] Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it.
Benjamin Button: [narrating] But life being what it is...a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control...that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.
Daisy: We're not little children playing under the table. Remember, when you came to New York. You didn't belong there. I didn't want to be with you then, I don't want to be with you now! I want you to leave! I'm not going anywhere with you! I want you to stay out of my life!
Daisy: Sleep with me.
Benjamin Button: Absolutely.
Daisy: I'm so glad we didn't find one another when I was 26.
Benjamin Button: Why do you say that?
Daisy: I was so young and you were so old. It happened when it was supposed to .
Daisy: What's it like growing younger?
Benjamin Button: Can't really say. I'm always lookin' out my own eyes.
Daisy: Will you still love me when my skin grows old and saggy?
Benjamin Button: Will you still love me when I have acne? When I wet the bed? When I'm afraid of what's under the stairs?
Daisy: What...what are you thinking?
Benjamin Button: I was thinking how nothin' lasts and what a shame that is.
Daisy: Some things last.
Benjamin Button: Goodnight Daisy.
Daisy: Goodnight Benjamin.
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