Little Birds (2011)

Kay Panabaker: Alison Hoffman

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• [last lines] 

  Alison : You only get a little time between a cut and knowing how deep it is. If it's only going to be nicked, or disfigured forever. All you can do is try to stretch out that moment for as long as you possibly can. 'Cause once you know, there ain't no coming back.

• Alison : Where's the furthest you've ever been?

  Hogan : Bora Bora.

  Alison : No way.

  Hogan : I found work on a freighter. We docked there and I decided to stay.

  Alison : Was it amazing?

  Hogan : I got a job at a resort where this mangy dog and her pup would hang around begging for food. The guest complained, so the manager sent me and this other guy, just a local, out to get 'em. The mother, she trusted humans, so she was easy. But her pup, she was a slippery little sucker. We couldn't get her no matter how hard we tried. We were supposed to take her out to the bigger island, about a 20-minute boat ride. My co-worker wanted to get home for dinner, though. His wife was making a Poisson Cru. So he threw the dog off the boat about halfway there.

  Alison : Oh, my God!

  Hogan : That night the whole island could hear that pup howling and crying for its mother. I traveled halfway across the world to find out that people are dumb and cruel everywhere. I could've just stayed home.

• [first lines] 

  Alison : [narrating]  My best friend Lily thought she was drowning. Drowning in the Salton Sea. Even though the water was too polluted to set foot in, and left anything in their town either dying, or dead.

  Margaret Hobart : Lily? Are you okay? Hello...

  Alison : Lily was determined to never let it get her.

  [drops down into the bath water and starts screaming] 

• Lily Hobart : I like him.

  Alison : I know you do.