Jonas Quotes in Skinwalkers (2006)

Varek: Don't make me do something I don't want to do. Join me. We're one and the same.

Jonas: I'm nothing like you.

Varek: I am what I was meant to be. You live a lie... we were wrong. I know what you're feeling, trust me.

Jonas: Trust you? You're killing fellow human beings.

Varek: I am NOT human. And I will not risk spending the rest of my days as one. Deseased and flawed... we're better than that.

Jonas: Where do you hail from?

The Beggar: From under a rock. That's where they say we all begin...crawling out from underneath something.

Jonas: We'll find another widow. Take her away and bury her... Deep... bring back her clothes.

Jonas: Ben, go into Denton. Try to find a durable, respectful female. This time one that doesn't booze.

Jonas: May I inquire just what it is you are looking for?

The Sheriff: Mass murders and what they stole.

Jonas: Not the roughies we heard about in Denton? The ones who destroyed the army convoy in Denton.

The Sheriff: They are somewhere around. We found some of their handywork in Denton's rocky hills. A woman's body... stripped clean.

Jane: You really don't care about anybody or anything except yourself, do you?

Jonas: Oh, Jane... I never pretended I did.

Jonas: Look, I run a show here. It's a lot of smoke and noise and it's strictly for the suckers. I've been pulling one kind of scam or another since I was your age, and if there's one thing I know it's how to spot the genuine article because that's what you've got to watch out for. Not the cops, you can always get around the cops. But the one thing you can never, ever get around is the genuine article, and you, kid, are the genuine article.

Jonas: Death's a breeze. Ever hear someone come back to complain?

Jonas: Hey boss. Remember me? Jack Newton. Got a question for you. Why did you make so many suckers? You say, 'love never endeth.' I say love never started. You say 'the meek shall inherit the earth.' And I say all the meek can count on is getting the short end of the stick. You say, 'is there one among you who is pure of heart?' and I say not one.

Jonas: What did the doctors tell you about your legs?

Boyd: The doctors have nothing to do with my legs. I'll walk if it's God's will.

Jonas: God doesn't have a trucker's license.

Boyd: I believe that things happen for a reason.

Jonas: You believe that. I'm gonna run.

Jonas: A woman is like a slingshot. The greater the resistance, the further you can get with her.

Jonas: You can't have it both ways.

Jonas: A twelve-gauge, double-barreled, grenade-launcher of LOVE!

Jonas: Yakety yak, God's talking back!

Jonas: A town this deep in the crapper's got nowhere to turn but GOD!

Jonas: [Addressing the congregation as the choir sings] Oh, people, the Lord is speaking to me right now.

[to Jane via a wireless radio transmitter]

Jonas: It better be good.

Jane: Now just relax. Cherry hat, Section 4, Row F.

Jonas: [points to the elderly man] You sir, in the brown jacket, I feel a burden you're carrying.

Brown Jacket: Who-who, me?

Jonas: Yes, sir. Now stand up and tell me if I'm hearing the Lord right. You're having a problem with your neighbor, am I right?

Brown Jacket: I sure am.

Jonas: Building a fence. Gonna harm your kids, right?

Brown Jacket: Yes, sir.

Jonas: Well, the Lord tells me...

Jane: [on the bus watching the events on the TV monitors; impressed] Amazing!

Jonas: [continues] ... is to make 'im your friend. You talk to him, and serve him up your best fried chicken...

[to his wife with the cherry hat]

Jonas: because yours is the best in the county, ain't it ma'am?

Woman with Cherries Hat: [excited] You know it is!

Jonas: Whoa boy, I'd love to get me some of that! Now come on up and thank the Lord for his saving!

[first lines]

Jonas: Emir was my best friend. He has always been my friend. He is 15 years old and comes from Yugoslavia. I have always known that he would make my life a living hell. It scared me out of my wits. My name is Jonas and I'm 14 years old. I have always lived here in town, and I have always lived with my mum. I have never met my father. When Mir was little, his dad clubbed him on the head. Now he has a right proper dent. He had lain down on his bed without taking his shoes off. His dad was pretty aggressive.

Jonas: What the hell? Isn't that the guy we beat up?

Emir: Jonas, promise that you will never leave me behind.

Jonas: Mir, there is just one problem. How do I prevent you from hitting other people in the head?

Jonas: I had learned that knowing what something is, is not the same as knowing how something feels.

Jonas: Your instructions said I can lie. Do you lie?

The Giver: All the time. Mostly for personal amusement.

Jonas: Fiona, there is more. So much more.

[kisses her]

Chief Elder's Assistant: What are they doing?

Jonas: Fiona, what do you feel?

Fiona: I don't have the words to describe it.

Jonas: It was like a memory, but Fiona was there.

The Giver: You had a dream.

Jonas: A what?

The Giver: A dream. A combination of reality, fantasy, emotions and what you had for dinner. You have stopped taking your injections, haven't you?

Jonas: The emotion was so strong. And the wedding, everyone all together, laughing and dancing. The old with the young, the bride and the groom; there was something there. But different from what we have.

The Giver: Yes. We don't have that any more.

Jonas: What do you mean by "that"?

The Giver: Well. I'm talking about what you feel for someone else. And the mind can't explain it, and you can't make it go away.

Jonas: What is it?

The Giver: Love. It's called love.

[first lines]

Title Card: All memories of the past were erased.

Jonas: After The Ruin we started over, creating a new society, one of true equality. Rules were the building blocks of that equality. We learned them as Newchildren. Rules like: use precise language, wear your assigned clothing, take your morning medication, obey the curfew, never lie.

Jonas: My name is Jonas. I don't have a last name. None of us did. That day, the day before graduation, I admit it, I was scared. Tomorrow we'd be assigned our jobs, our purpose. It seemed everyone knew theirs already. Not me. I was lost. I always felt like I saw things - differently; saw things other people didn't. I never said anything. I didn't want to be different. Who would?

Asher: [bicycle bell dinging] Jonas!

Fiona: I apologize, we're late. I got Asher to come say goodbye to Teacher.

Jonas: I accept your apology.

Jonas: [narration continues] Asher and Fiona. We'd been friends our whole lives. Asher was the boy who made everyone laugh. Fiona, well, she was the girl who made everyone smile.

Asher: [standing on his bicycle pedals] ... Take that back! Whoever is listening, please, please, do not make me Vice Chancellor of Waste Management! Please!

Jonas: [narration continues] We lived in a world where differences weren't allowed. There was no "popular." No fame. No losers and no winners. Our Elders had eliminated all of that, so there'd be no conflict between us. Fear, pain, envy, hate, they weren't words so much as sounds. Their echoes were gone, to the other side of history. I'm asked if I should apologize for what I did. I'll let you decide.

[last lines]

Jonas: I wish I had been there when the memories returned. They were the truth. The Elders and their rules were the lie. So I do *not* apologize. I knew Fiona was safe. That I'd see her again, and that I held the future there in my arms.

[distant singing]

Jonas: The Giver had led us here, to this house. It was real. From far behind me, from the place I had left, I thought I heard music, too. Perhaps it was only an echo. But it was enough. It would lead us all home.

Jonas: If you can't feel... what's the point?

The Giver: But what can you do?

Jonas: Asher, there's something I have to do that is right, but is sort of against the rules.

Asher: If it's the right thing to do, how can it be against the rules?

Jonas: There are things that I've learned that you don't know, that you can't know, not because it's your fault...

The Giver: [grabbing hold of him] There is no way for me to prepare you for what I'm going to do now. You can take comfort in knowing you are completely helpless.

[sighs]

The Giver: If any of this proves too much for you, tell me immediately.

Jonas: I just have...

[passes into a trance]

The Giver: Everything is connected, everything is a balance. With good there is always bad. The two...

Jonas: Show me more!

The Giver: Let's go for a walk.

Jonas: [scoots his chair forward for another vision]

The Giver: A real one, with your legs.

Chief Elder: What exactly do you do in your training?

Jonas: We sit in chairs. And we don't say a word all day. Then, when we're done, I go home. Then, in the morning, I go back. And do it again

Jonas: Even as a child, Jeremy was psychotic, but he was my son!

Jonas: [Final lines] May I kiss you now?

Britt-Marie: Yes, but gently.

Jónas: I come here every day so she'll remember me.

Margit: And if you didn't come, she would forget?

Jónas: Yes

Jónas: Don't.

Katla: Don't what?

Jónas: Don't do your work on me.

Jónas: You took two.

Margit: I only knocked it with my hand.

Margit: You have to pick a shell first.

Jónas: Where are you and your sister from?

Margit: It's not there anymore.

Jónas: It disappeared?

Margit: No. There aren't any people there anymore. They are all gone.

Jónas: Will you ever go back?

Margit: Katla says we'll stay here. That we are from here now.

Jónas: But you can't change where you are from.

Margit: But what if where you are from isn't there anymore?

Jónas: Then you can be from here, but your sister can't be.

Margit: Why not?

Jónas: Because I'm from here and I don't want her to be.

Margit: But she's my sister and she has to be from the same place as I am.

Jónas: But I don't want her to be.

Margit: But she has to be.

Jónas: No, she can't be. I don't want her to be. No she can't be. I don't want her to be. She can't be. I don't want her to be. No. She can't be. I won't let her.

Margit: Jónas, Jónas.

Jónas: What's the matter?

Margit: I've seen my mother.

Jónas: Where?

Margit: By the sea, and on the heath. I couldn't remember before. But now I do.

Jónas: What dose she look like?

Margit: She's very beautiful.

Jónas: But how can she be here?

Margit: Sometimes people return.

Jónas: Is she a ghost?

Margit: No, she came to take care of me.

Katla: You should remember I'm carrying your little brother.

Jónas: He won't be my brother.

Katla: Your father is the father. So he will be your brother.

Jónas: Your a witch, your a dirty witch.

Jonas: I don't fuck the animals.

Jonas, Mercy: [singing] Black Phillip, Black Phillip, a crown grows out his head. Black Phillip, Black Phillip, to nanny queen is wed. Jump to the fence post. Running in the stall. Black Phillip, Black Phillip, king of all.

Adam Finch: You know, I never believed in this shit.

Jonas: I always did.

Jonas: How do you know all this?

Amanda: Because I've played before.

Xavier: [picking up Obi's note from Jigsaw] 'Obi'?

Jonas: What the fuck is a 'Obi'?

Obi: 'Ah-bi'. That's my name.

Jonas: What the fuck is a Obi?

Laura: Jail. You said you three had been there. Make it four.

Jonas: For what?

Laura: Doesn't matter.

Jonas: You remind me of me, no matter what kind of fucked up situation you're in you've got to find an enemy. You know what? I got enemies man.

[begins to cry]

Jonas: Outside these fucking walls, bro... and they're lookin for me. And if they don't find ME they're going after the ones closest to me, my family. You understand?

Jonas: All I'm saying is let's just take our time and come up with a game plan!

Xavier: Well you come up with a game plan. Alright? I'm getting out of here.

Laura: [to Obi] You're the last person I saw before I woke up here. You did this!

Jonas: Are you sure it's him? You better be sure.

Laura: I'm sure.

Obi: You would have done the same. I did what I had to do.

Xavier: I'll give you a choice.

[pulls a knife on Obi]

Xavier: You got 5 seconds to get us out of here!

Obi: I don't know the way out.

Laura: [smashes a glass bottle] Bullshit! You got us in here. You can get us out of here!

Obi: No I can't.

Xavier: Then you're a dead man.

Obi: So are you.

Jonas: But remember, if you find any golden coin, then you'll find ghosts, and backwards too.

Jonas: I need to take a piss!

Jonas: I just rose up from hell, with my hair on fire!

Johnsy Boy Hood: Mister, I've only got a dab of cash on me.

Jonas: Down Johnsy Boy and fast.

Jonas: When you brand, it's usual to earmark and geld.