Extended Reading

Let the Right One In quotes

  • Oskar: How old are you?

    Eli: Twelve... more or less.

    Eli: What about you?

    Oskar: Twelve years, eight months and nine days. What do you mean, "more or less"?

    Oskar: When's your birthday?

    Eli: I don't know.

    Oskar: Don't you celebrate your birthday? Your parents... they've got to know.

    Eli: [Eli looks down on the ground]

    Oskar: Then you don't get any birthday presents, do you?

    Eli: No.

  • Eli: [standing outside the door] You have to invite me in.

    Oskar: What happens if I don't? What happens if you walk in anyway?

    [feels the air between himself and Eli]

    Oskar: Is there something in the way?