Ondine Quotes

Syracuse: How long are you staying?

Ondine: Depends, I guess.

Syracuse: On what?

Ondine: On you.

Syracuse: On me? It depends on me, you can stay forever.

Ondine: Forever?

Syracuse: Forever, happily ever after, once upon a time... I'm been telling my daughter a story, a fairy tale...

[first lines]

Syracuse: [into radio] Anybody out there? I need a little help.

Ondine: I don't want to see anyone.

Syracuse: Well I just disappear then?

Ondine: I don't mind seeing you.

Syracuse: "You don't mind seeing me." That's nice.

Ondine: Say again?

Syracuse: Most people do.

Annie: You sure it's not some kind of wish-fulfillment kind of thing?

Syracuse: Where did you learn words like that?

Annie: I go to school.

Syracuse: And I didn't...

Annie: No. Let's be honest, you didn't. You move your mouth when you read.

Fishery Board Man II: There's a girl here Syracuse, in your net.

Syracuse: Is that illegal?

Fishery Board Man II: No, but... it's unusual.

Syracuse: What's wrong with being seen?

Ondine: Nothing. When you look good.

Syracuse: You don't like the dress?

Ondine: No, I like it. It's just, underwear would be better.

Syracuse: Doesn't fit?

Ondine: Tight around the edges.

Syracuse: You have edges?

Annie: This town is what you call sartorially-challenged.

Ondine: What does that mean?

Annie: A supermodel's nightmare.

Syracuse: So what kind of a tree are you father?

Priest: Oh, well, I suppose I'm an Oak.

Syracuse: You look more like one of the ones that they make holly sticks out of.

Priest: Oh, an Ash, yeah...

Priest: So, who's going to marry her, Syracuse?

Syracuse: It's not like there's a queue, father.

Priest: And I can't marry her.

Syracuse: No, you're a tree.

Priest: Exactly.

Annie: So I supposed she isn't a Selkie really. 'Cause you can't marry a seal, can ya?

Priest: No, you definitely cannot.

Annie: Not in the real quotidian world, any way.

Priest: Quotidian?

Annie: Yep. Means the one we have to live in. If she was a seal, though, would you still do the wedding?

Priest: Me?

[last lines]

Annie: What about your past lives?

Ondine: Are you sure I have them?

Annie: Oh yeah, everybody does. It's just a matter of remembering.

Annie: [to her dad] Stop peeping, would you?

Syracuse: I don't peep.

Annie: I mean, you could have even been married in one of them...

Syracuse: [Ondine is sitting on the wheelhouse floor, steering the boat with her foot, showing lots of leg] You can't really guide a boat with your foot.

Ondine: I'm not doing well?

Syracuse: No, I never say that!