Big Fish & Begonia (2016)

JB Blanc: Lingpo

Quotes 

• Lingpo : What brings you to the Island of Souls?

  Chun : There's a soul I'm looking for: the soul of a human boy

  Lingpo : What time was it he died?

  Chun : It was two days before the wheat harvest.

  Lingpo : You need to be sure of the date. Otherwise you're searching for a needle in a haystack. So many die every day.

  Chun : I'm sure. It was my birthday.

  Lingpo : I know what you're trying to do, girl, and it goes against the laws of nature!

  Chun : I don't care. I've got to save him!

  Lingpo : The punishment is harsh for those who defy nature, no matter who you are, so you *should* care.

  Chun : But I owe him, for saving my life.

  Lingpo : How very touching. I've been stuck here for 800 years, and I'm still not done paying penance for my sin!

  Chun : But you didn't...!

  Lingpo : Don't interrupt! Let me tell you what real tragedy is. Meeting someone you care about so much you forget yourself and make a mistake. So then you go back and try to fix it and make things right again, and then you learn that fixing it's impossible.

  [chuckles] 

  Lingpo : We can never undo the wrongs we've done. This I know.

  Chun : You're saying you won't help me?

  Lingpo : I'm saying I pity you. Besides, resurrecting someone from the dead doesn't come cheap.

  Chun : What would it cost?

  Lingpo : No less than a lovely girl's loveliest features: your eyes.

  Chun : [winces] 

  Lingpo : [laughing]  Now she's scared.

  [chuckles] 

  Lingpo : Don't want to give up your pretty eyes, eh? All right, I'll take half your life instead.

  Chun : If that'll save him, take it.