Maïna Quotes in Maïna (2013)

Maïna: I haven't had my first bleeding! Men can't touch me. You are no exception!

[to Saitu]

Maïna: We were formed into small clans, and that was how we protected our hunting territories. Our clan was called the Nearly-Wolves. I quickly realized that wolves were animals of a greater intelligence.

Maïna: I had decided to be the most courageous of them all. I was the chief's daughter. I had to prove to the spirits that I was different and that I deserved an exceptional totem to fulfill my destiny. The Great Manitou could have matched me with the spirit of a tree or a hare, or a bird, but I wanted more.

Maïna: They've brought you along to eat you.

[referring to Natak and Ouujuuq]

Nipki: They want to eat me? I'll defend myself.

Maïna: They will kill you first. Then they will eat you.

Nipki: If it were true, they would start by eating you. There's more of you to eat.

Maïna: Help me. Help me! I don't know who I am anymore.

Tekahera: You are becoming yourself... a little more every day, Maina. Stop rowing against the tide.

Maïna: There is nothing in your land.

Natak: Only for the one who doesn't know how to look.

Maïna: I want to go back home with Nipki.

Natak: Nipki will decide when he becomes a man. You can't. You are intended for me.

Nipki: What are you doing?

Maïna: I am with myself. Here... no one notices me. Would you like to go back home?

Nipki: Maybe, but not alone.

Maïna: Don't worry. I'll be with you.

Nipki: I wasn't talking about you...

[referring to his Inuit girlfriend]

Maïna: Natak accompanied the seal on it's last journey, as I had done with the sick wolf. He was not so different from me after all.

[during a hunt]

Natak: What are you thinking about?

Maïna: I wondered... if you would let me return home.

Natak: Yes, you can go.

Maïna: If you let me go... I choose to say...

Maïna: Is it done?

[asking about her painted tattoos]

Assivak: If he likes this, you can get it done for real.

Assivak: Tikkittuq honored Natak by asking him to lend for the night. Your refusal humiliated him and offended his best friend.

Maïna: Would you accept to sleep with a visitor to please Quujuq?

Assivak: I'd be the one who'd be pleased. It's nice to experience new caresses.

Maïna: Natak is my man. I don't want any other.

Maïna: My tunic is made of seal and caribou. It comes from my people and yours.

Natak: You did not choose one or the other. You sewed them together. You have offended the spirits by mixing what comes from the land, with what comes from the sea. You will never be one of us.

Maïna: Along with the Inuit who had joined us, Natak and I decided to found a new clan. Our children would inherit the best of our two cultures.

Maïna: I had finally attained the extraordinary destiny I dreamed of. Not only was I expecting a child with the man I love, but I was also reunited with my mother again, your grandmother. My totem had never abandoned me. And then, a few moons later, guess who came into this world?

Maïna & Natak's daughter: That's me!