Tonga Quotes in Dot and the Whale (1986)

Tonga: The ocean. How I loved the ocean. It was my world. Oh, I remember mother, so gentle. My father, so big and strong... and then they came. The man with the ships and the guns. And then my father was gone, and then my mother, and then all my friends. I wanted to go with them, but they didn't take me... I was too big to take, and too small to kill. I'll never return to the ocean.

Dot: But you must. You'll die out here on the beach.

Tonga: I know. I don't want to live anymore. There's no place for me to go. No family. No friends.