Digging to China (1997)

Evan Rachel Wood: Harriet Frankovitz

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Quotes 

• Ricky : You live here, at a hotel?

  Harriet : My mom got it as a divorce present.

• Harriet : My sister Gwen should have been a nurse, she's always making some guy feel better!

• Harriet : I think Gwen was mostly upset that I'd gotten married before her, seeing as how I was so much younger.

• Harriet : Prince Ricky, I grant you three wishes.

  Ricky : I don't want to do that.

  Harriet : Come on!

  Ricky : Okay. I want to stay here.

  Harriet : That's one, you've got two more!

  Ricky : Umm... I want my mom to live forever!

  Harriet : That's two. One more.

  Ricky : I want a hundred more wishes!

  Harriet : You can't do that you only have three!

  Ricky : I want to be as smart as everybody else... just for a day.

• Harriet : Gwen?

  Gwen : Down here...

  Harriet : You're supposed to wait with me till the sandman comes.

  Gwen : Okay... Am I supposed to tell you a story?

  Harriet : Sometimes, but mostly we just talk about stuff.

  Gwen : Okay. Do I pick the subject or do you?

  Harriet : Either... Turn out the light?

  Gwen : Okay... ready?

• Harriet : My mother lived in one world. I was always looking for another.

• Harriet : I always wished for the same two things which were really only one thing. I wanted something magical to happen to me, and I wanted my mother to get well.

• Harriet : My mother says I was born with an angel on my shoulder. This is supposed to bring me luck and happiness. I think she lied.

• Harriet : Sometimes I thought my mother was smart and really beautiful. Other times I worried a nest of spiders was living in her hair and they were eating through her skull and chewing on her brain.

• Ricky : My mother says before I was born I was the same as everybody else, better even. My mom says I'm from a place where I'm the smartest person there. Everybody sings.

  Harriet : Well, maybe the home will be like that, and it'll look like a castle and have a moat around it and have gardens and bushes shaped like animals.

  Ricky : I don't want to go to a home.

• Harriet : Mom, is there a planet where everyone's dumber than us?

  Mrs. Frankovitz : Sure, that's the one all of Gwen's boyfriends are from.

• Harriet : I always figured I'd leave my mother. But she left me first.

• Gwen : You want to sleep in my room with me tonight?

  Harriet : No!

  Gwen : Don't be mad at me about mom, it's not my fault. Don't think it's your fault either.

  Harriet : I'm glad she's dead!

  Gwen : You don't mean that.

  Harriet : I won't miss her at all.

  Gwen : Harriet you loved her. She loved you too, very much. Sometimes, just... things just happen sometimes... Look; you don't have to worry about being an orphan or anything. You've got me.

  Harriet : The booby prize.

  Gwen : I'm trying to tell you something here, Harriet... So... I'm going to be your mother now. What do you think about that?

  Harriet : I don't need a mother.

  Gwen : Sure you do.

  Harriet : My mother is in a box covered with dirt.

  Gwen : No, I'm your mother... I had you when I was fifteen. I was letting Mom be your mother.

  Harriet : You're lying.

  Gwen : No... Sorry. I'm not.

  Harriet : Go away Gwen, I wish you'd died!

• Gwen : I'm not mad at you, okay? But I want you to promise me something...

  Harriet : What?

  Gwen : Promise me you won't hang around Ricky anymore.

  Harriet : But Ricky is my best friend.

  Gwen : He can't be Harriet. He's a man, he's a grown-up, he's a... retarded. If you hang around him long enough you'll start talking like him or walking like him or maybe even acting like him.

  Harriet : Well, at least it would be better than talking and walking and acting like you.

• Harriet : Have you ever, ever, ever in your very long life seen a long-legged sailor and his long-legged wife? No, I never ever, ever in my very long life seen a long-legged sailor and his long-legged wife.

• [first lines] 

  Harriet : My mother lived in one world. I was always looking for another.

  Harriet : Once I tried to squeeze down a rabbit hole.

  [fire department arriving] 

  Harriet : Then I tried digging all the way to China.

  [sparks fly] 

  Harriet : That's when I learned a mysterious electric force protected the center of the Earth. Then I tried to make the carpet from the front hall fly me to Persia.

  Harriet : I always wish for the same two things, which are really only one thing. I want something magical to happen to me. And I wanted my mother to get well.

• Harriet : [to Gwen's one night stand]  Gwen has a trumpet up her butt. You should hear her blow.

• [last lines] 

  Harriet : You're supposed to wait with me until the sandman comes.

  Gwen : Okay.

  Gwen : Am I supposed to tell you a story?

  Harriet : Sometimes. But mostly we just talk about stuff.

  Gwen : Okay. Do I pick the subject, or do you?

  Harriet : Either.

  Harriet : Turn off the light.

  Gwen : Okay, ready?

• Harriet : [to Gwen's one-night stand]  Gwen has a trumpet up her butt. You should hear you blow.