Mia Wasikowska credited as playing...
India Stoker
- India Stoker: He used to say, sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse.
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- India Stoker: My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free.
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- Sheriff: In a hurry? Know how fast you were doing?
- India Stoker: [speaks in Italian]
- Sheriff: Pardon?
- India Stoker: [translating for him] Effectively fast, Mister Sheriff.
- Sheriff: Effective for what?
- India Stoker: To get your attention.
- India Stoker: What do you want from me?
- Charles Stoker: To be friends.
- India Stoker: We don't need to be friends. We're family.
- India Stoker: Have you ever seen a picture of yourself, taken when you didn't know you were being photographed, from an angle that you don't usually see when you look in a mirror, and you think: "That's me... that's ALSO me." Do you know what I'm talking about?
- Whip: I think I do. So you are surprised at yourself? Does that mean you are not afraid of being touched anymore?
- India Stoker: Please don't spoil it.
- India Stoker: You look like my father.
- Charles Stoker: I am so sorry.
- India Stoker: It's your loss, too.
- Charles Stoker: She always used to say: "There's nothing a man could master that a woman couldn't make."
- India Stoker: What do you mean?
- Evelyn Stoker: That sounds better in French.