Mara Quotes in The Time Machine (2002)

Mara: Why have you come here? Why have you traveled through time?

Alexander Hartdegen: To have a question answered.

Mara: A question?

Alexander Hartdegen: Yes. Why can't I change the past?

Mara: Why would you want to?

[a look of realization]

Mara: You've lost someone. Someone you loved very much.

Mara: Some things are better left unsaid.

Mara: I don't like brutality. I like heroics. I like the blood of heroes.

Wyatt: Hey, has Christian ever showed you the roof or the basement? They're pretty cool.

Mara: Really?

Wyatt: Yeah. You wanna check 'em out instead of awkwardly waiting?

[Alex opens the window to the morning sun and wakes Mara, bringing her a bouquet of sunflowers]

Alex Bernier: I hope you like sunflowers

Mara: I love sunflowers. You know that.

Alex Bernier: Why? Why do you love sunflowers?

Mara: Because I always thought that when God was making beautiful things, He messed up with sunflowers.

Alex Bernier: How?

Mara: Well, 'cause they look like - I don't know. They look like crooked teeth around a mouth that's too big, kind of.

Alex Bernier: Yeah.

Mara: But... just when He was about to start over, He realized that's what made them beautiful. They were a brilliant mistake.

Alex Bernier: Like you and me.

Mara: [to Alex] It's you and me. You and me till the wheels fall off.

Alex Bernier: Promise you won't try to kill me.

Mara: [sighs] Cross my heart, hope to die.

Mara: We're the Catholic Pete, Link and Julie.

Mara: Who are they?

Alex Bernier: Orphans. Of what, I don't know.

Alex: [to Mara as they fight their recently possessed friend, Cecelia] Try not to hurt her!

Mara: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Leah: The telekinesis with the blood and water was a nice trick, Alex.

Alex: And what about you Leah? Walk through any walls lately?

Leah: [softly, almost ashamed] It was a... filing cabinet.

Mara: Wait, you can walk through walls? I'm sorry, what are we still doing here?

Leah: Just objects. I can't leave a room... yet.

Mara: Okay, I'm with freaks...

Mara: Ah, see, and I was trying not to be prejudiced against this school's Pentagram.

Cecilia: I always say, you've stepped in one Pentagram...

Mara: She broke my healing hand!

Cecilia: You mean to tell you don't believe in the devil?

Mara: Oh I believe in the devil, his name is Man and he is pissing me of.

Mara: Why don't you do it?

Jon: Not all of me came back from the war

Mara: I mean, everyone said that only a CGI cartoon could win the Boonta Eve.

Ani: I mean, don't get me wrong. I butchered my fair share of defenseless Sandpeople. Then I cried about it.

[pause]

Ani: I also choked my pregnant wife to death. I cried about that too.

Mara: Eww. Ani. I would've rather not known any of that.

Ani: Mara Jade, huh? Never heard of you.

Mara: Really? You must not know dick about Star Wars.

Ani: Great dance, kid, that was one in a million.

Mara: Thanks, Ani!

Bib Fortuna: Jabba says you got the part!

[Last lines]