Olivia Harris Quotes in The Station Agent (2003)

Joe Oramas: Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?

Olivia Harris: No.

Joe Oramas: How can you not have a garlic press?

Olivia Harris: [both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!

Joe Oramas: Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press!

[turns back to kitchen]

Olivia Harris: [to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.

Finbar McBride: It's a nice house.

Olivia Harris: Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.

Finbar McBride: Where did you used to live?

Olivia Harris: Princeton.

[glancing at Fin]

Olivia Harris: I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died.

[a bit of silence falls between them]

Olivia Harris: How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?

Finbar McBride: [smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe!

[Laughter spreads out gradually from them]

Joe Oramas: [leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys!

[Fin and Olivia burst into laughter]

Joe Oramas: Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks!

[the two keep laughing crazily]

[last lines]

Joe Oramas: It's the librarian fantasy, man. Glasses off, hair down, books flying.

Finbar McBride: She doesn't wear glasses.

Olivia Harris: Well, buy her some, it's worth it.

Finbar McBride: Well, there are people called train chasers. They follow a train and they film it.

Olivia Harris: Are you a train chaser?

Finbar McBride: No.

Olivia Harris: How come?

Finbar McBride: I don't know how to drive a car. And I don't own a camera.

Olivia Harris: That'd do it.

Joe Oramas: Trains are really cool.

Olivia Harris: They are.

Finbar McBride: [smoking marijuana] So are horses.

Joe Oramas: What?

Finbar McBride: I was just thinking that.

Joe Oramas: Give me the joint, man.

Olivia Harris: Would you do me a favor and not look at me right now?

Olivia Harris: [Breaking the ice] When I was 19, I actually slept with a guy because he rolled his own cigarettes.