The City of Lost Children (1995)

Judith Vittet: Miette

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Quotes 

• Miette : When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.

• Miette : One?

  [One grunts] 

  Miette : You asleep?

  [One breathes deeply and mumbles] 

  Miette : What did you do before?

  One : One sailor. Harpooned Whales. One night

  [pauses] 

  One : One hear whales singing. After

  [gestures throwing of harpoon] 

  One : always always the target I miss. One loses job.

  Miette : One?

  [pauses] 

  Miette : What's it like to have a little brother?

  One : Keeps you

  [pauses] 

  One : running.

  Miette : Well, he can't complain he's got nobody to worry about him.

  One : [Turns over]  Denree- little brother. Miette- little sister.

  [Blows air on Miette's back] 

  Miette : What are you doing?

  One : [Whispers in Miette's ear]  Radiator

• One : Miette too little.

  Miette : Not as little as all that.

• le scaphandrier : The Children!

  Miette : What about them? What do you know?

  le scaphandrier : He takes them. The Devil takes them away. In his boat... he takes them to Hell.

  Miette : What Hell?

  le scaphandrier : The tattooed man: he knows where. The map... the map of the minefield is tattooed on his body.