The Tree of Life (2011)
Jessica Chastain: Mrs. O'Brien
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Quotes
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Mrs. O'Brien : [voice over] Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
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Mrs. O'Brien : [voice over] The nuns taught us there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end. I will be true to you. Whatever comes.
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Mrs. O'Brien : [voice over] The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.
[silence]
Mrs. O'Brien : [voice over] Do good to them. Wonder. Hope.
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Father Haynes : He is in God's hands, now.
Mrs. O'Brien : He was in God's hands the whole time. Wasn't he?
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Mrs. O'Brien : [voice over] Lord, Why? Where were you? Did you know what happened? Do you care?
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[last lines]
Mrs. O'Brien : [voice-over] I give him to you. I give you my son.
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Mrs. O'Brien : [pointing to the sky] That's where God lives!
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Mrs. O'Brien : Light of my life. I search for you.
Mrs. O'Brien : My hope. My child.
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Mrs. O'Brien : What are we to you?
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Mrs. O'Brien : Come here!
Young Jack : NO! I'm gonna do what I want to do, and you let him walk all over you.
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Mrs. O'Brien : You'll be grown before that tree is tall.
