The Horse Whisperer (1998)

Scarlett Johansson: Grace MacLean

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• Tom Booker : There was a boy from the Blackfeet reservation, he used to do some work around here for a while. Sixteen, strong kid, good kid. He and I were really, really good friends. One day he went swimming and dove headfirst into the lake... and right into a rock. And it snapped his neck, paralyzed him. And after the accident I'd look in on him from time to time. But he wasn't there. It was like his mind, his spirit, whatever you want to call it, just disappeared. The only thing left was just anger. Just sort of as if the... the boy I once knew just went somewhere else.

  Grace : I know where he goes.

  Tom Booker : I know you do. Don't you disappear. You do whatever you have to do to hold on.

• Grace : Are you afraid of anything, Tom Booker?

  Tom Booker : Of growing old. Being of no use.

• Annie : Don't they believe in signs around here?

  Grace : What would they say? Ten miles to big rock. Twenty miles to bigger rock.

• Grace : Why do you always wear that hat?

  Joe Booker : Cuz it fits my head. Wanna try it on?

• Grace : I've decided about Pilgrim.

  Annie : Oh.

  Grace : I think we should put him down. It's not fair to let him suffer.

  Annie : Well I think that's a very...

  Grace : And maybe we should put me down too.

• [Upon having her leg amputated] 

  Grace : Who's going to want me now?

• [first lines] 

  Judith : [waves]  Hello!

  Grace : [waves]  Hello!

• Tom Booker : Is she going to be long?

  Grace : Probably, she's on the phone 23 hours a day.

  Tom Booker : What does she do?

  Grace : She's an editor.

  Tom Booker : An editor? Ah.

  Grace : Just in case she hasn't told you, which she probably hasn't, I don't want to be a part of this. Okay?

• Tom Booker : Hey, Grace?

  Grace : Hmm?

  Tom Booker : What went on out there with Pilgrim?

  [Grace says nothing, just turns toward the truck's rear] 

  Tom Booker : See Grace, I've got a problem. When I work with a horse, I like to know its history. Now sometimes, a horse, in their own way, can pretty much tell you the whole story. But sometimes, they get so messed up in their head that you need more to go on. Now I don't know how you feel about talking about it. And if you don't feel like it, I understand. But if I'm gonna figure out what's going on in his head, it sure would help me if I understood exactly what happened that day. You know, not today. Whenever you feel like it. I'll leave that up to you.