Memorable quotes for
White Oleander (2002) More at IMDbPro »

Paul: What happened?
Astrid: She let me go.

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Paul: I get this feeling like... you're not interested in guys.
Astrid: You're right, I'm not.

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Astrid: There's nothing wrong with being a Christian.
Ingrid: Are you out of your mind? How did this happen? I raised you, not a pack of Bible-thumping trailer trash. I raised you to think for yourself.
Astrid: No you didn't. You raised me to think like you.

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Astrid: You look at me, and you don't like what you see. But this is the price, Mother - the price of belonging to you.

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Ingrid: I made you. I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go
Astrid: Then let me go

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Astrid: Looks don't interest me.
Paul: That's easy for you to say, you've never been ugly.

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Astrid: My mother was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was also the most dangerous.

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Starr: Astrid, those are ugly shoes.
Astrid: Snakes don't bite above ankle.
Starr: Well, take my word for it, you better being bitten by snakes then dressin' for them.

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Astrid: But...
Starr: Don't "But" me. He is a man, and he sees what he sees, and does what he can.

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Ingrid: Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

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Ingrid: Of course I was jealous. I live in a cell with a women who has a vocabulary of 25 words.

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Claire Richards: Take my advice and stay away from broken people.

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Paul: I was born addicted to heroin.
Astrid: And what was that like?
Paul: I don't know - I was out of rehab by the time I was six months old.

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Rena: Workers of the world arise. You've got nothing to lose but Visa card, happy meal, and Kotex with wings.

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Claire Richards: What was the best day of your life?
Astrid: Today.

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Astrid: Beauty was my mothers law, her religion.

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Ray: My opinion is if there is a god he sure as hell ain't worth prayin' to.

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Carolee: Don't look at me like that. You're no different than I am... you just don't know it yet.

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Astrid: The Next time you and your friends jump me, I'll cut your throats when you're sleeping.

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Rena: You're a stupid girl, you walk away from money to punish mother?

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Astrid: Never let a man spend the night, she said. Never apologize, never explain. She was breaking all her rules, and it would change everything.

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Starr: He who believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall live. And don't you forget it, missy.

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Ingrid: Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself... know what you want.

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Astrid: You're either an artist or you're not. You are.

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Astrid: Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning, the reason is simple, I couldn't understand the beginning until I had reached the end. There were too many pieces of the puzzle missing, too much you would never tell. I could sell these things. People want to buy them, but I'd set all this on fire first. She'd like that, that's what she would do. She'd make it just to burn it. I couldn't afford this one, but the beginning deserves something special. But how do I show that nothing, not a taste, not a smell, not even the color of the sky, has ever been as clear and sharp as it was when I belonged to her. I don't know how to express the being with someone so dangerous is the last time I felt safe...

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Astrid: You look at me mother and you don't like what you see. But this is the price... the price of belonging to you.

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Ingrid: You don't go anywhere until I let you go.
Astrid: Then let me go.

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