Daisy:
I
promise
you, I'll never lose myself to self-pity again. Benjamin Button:[narrating]
And I think, right there and then, she realized none of us is perfect
forever.
Daisy:
I figure you
were born in
1918...49 years ago...I'm 43...we are almost the same age. We're
meeting in the middle. Benjamin Button:
We finally caught up with each other. Wait I wanna remember us just as
we are now.
Daisy: We
all end up
in diapers.
[being
interviewed on TV for
being the oldest woman to swim the English channel] Elizabeth
Abbott: I
suppose anything was possible.
Caroline:
This
Benjamin was my father? And this is how you tell me?!
[letter
to his
daughter] Benjamin
Button:[voice
over]
For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case,
too
early to
be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you
want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this
thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the
best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel
things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different
point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that
you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Daisy:
You are so much younger. Benjamin Button:
Only on the outside.
Daisy:
Nothing lasts. Benjamin Button:
I never stopped loving you. Daisy:
Benjamin, I'm an old woman now. Benjamin Button:
Some things you never forget.
Daisy:
And in the spring, 2003, he looked at me. And I knew, that he knew, who
I was. And then he closed his eyes, as if to go to sleep.
[last lines] Benjamin Button:[narrating]
Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning.
Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know
buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people,
dance.
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