Tom Garnett Quotes in Away We Go (2009)

Tom Garnett: It's all those good things you have in you. The love, the wisdom, the generosity, the selflessness, the patience. The patience! At 3 A.M. when everyone's awake because Ibrahim is sick and he can't find the bathroom and he's just puked all over Katki's bed. When you blink, when you blink! And it's 5:30 and it's time to get up again and you know you're going to be tired all day, all week, all your fucking life. And you're thinking what happened to Greece? What happened to swimming naked off the coast of Greece? And you have to be willing to make the family out of whatever you have.

Tom Garnett: She had another miscarriage.

Burt Farlander: What? When?

Tom Garnett: Thursday.

Burt Farlander: This Thursday?

Tom Garnett: Yeah. This is her fifth. I know she loves all those kids like, like they were her own blood. But, I wonder if we've been selfish. People like us we wait till our thirties and then we're surprised when the babies aren't so easy to make anymore and then every day another million fourteen year olds get pregnant without trying. It's a terrible feeling, this helpless, man. You just watch these babies grow and then fade. You don't know if you're supposed to name them, or bury them, or... I'm sorry.

Verona De Tessant: Hey, so the movie ends when the Von Trapps go to sleep?

Tom Garnett: Yeah, we sort of skip it.

Verona De Tessant: You skip the Nazis?

Tom Garnett: We kind of figured 'What's the point?' you know?