Grand Canyon (1991)
Mary McDonnell: Claire
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Quotes
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Claire : Look, Mack, I don't even know what I'm gonna say from one second to the next. The world doesn't make any sense to me any more. What's going on? There are babies lying around in the streets. There are people living in boxes. There are people ready to shoot you if you look at them. And we're getting used to it. The world is so nuts, it makes me wonder about all the choices that we've made.
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Claire : Mack, you think that I want that baby because l've got some hole in my life or I think I'm gonna have some hole in my life, but that's not it. Or if it is it, it's just a part of it. That baby needs someone to love it and take care of it. Something has happened. You can't go back and have it not happen. Some kind of connection has been made. lt has to be played out... What if these are miracles, Mack? Maybe we don't have any experience with miracles, so we're slow to recognise them.
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Roberto : All right, you got 15 seconds to tell me all the mother stuff one more time.
Claire : Sunscreen, hat, allergy pills, summer reading, floss. Watch out for poison oak, Lyme ticks, bears, dragons, pestilence. Just be careful, okay? Write if you need anything.
Roberto : Mom, I'm going to camp, not the army.
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Claire : How do you know that? How do you know that this man isn't gonna be your friend until the day that you die? What if these are miracles, Mack? Maybe we don't have any experience with miracles, so we're slow to recognize them.
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Claire : I haven't taken leave of my senses. I just wanted you to see her, so I waited till you got home, that's all. She's so beautiful. I just wanted *you* to see her.
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Claire : Everything seems so close together. All the good and bad things in the world. Everything. I feel it in myself even. And in us. Our marriage.
