Aidan Quotes in The Secret of Kells (2009)

Brendan: You can't find out everything from books, you know.

Aidan: I think I read that once.

Aidan: Old fools should learn to keep quiet.

Brendan: Unless young fools want to listen.

Aidan: When they come, all we can do is run and hope that we are fast enough.

[Eve and Aidan are playing draughts. Aidan wins]

Eve Malone: All right then, you win. What do I have to do?

Aidan: You've got to hold it in your hand... for sixty seconds.

Eve Malone: All right, I'll hold it. But I won't diddle it about, d'you understand?

Lindsay: Why'd you and your brother come back?

Aidan: This is the house we grew up in. It's our home.

[Lindsay starts look at pictures]

Aidan: That's her.

Lindsay: She's beautiful.

Aidan: You remind me of her.

Lindsay: Really?

Aidan: I don't mean looks. It's how you carry yourself. How you treat people.

Lindsay: Is that you and your brother?

Aidan: [Aiden points to himself in a picture] That's me.

Aidan: We've all been dead a lot longer than we've been alive.