[last lines] Paul Rivers: How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes wit...
Paul Rivers: [quoting a poem] The earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us, until it finally brought us together in this dream.
Paul Rivers: There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.
Cristina Peck: You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on.
Jack Jordan: God knows when a single hair moves on your head.
[hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] Jack Jordan: There's no hitting in this house.
Marianne Jordan: Life has to go on Jack. With or without God.
Paul Rivers: Did you know that eating alone could cause kidney damage? And that's BAD.
[after waking up in the emergency room] Paul Rivers: So this is death's waiting room.
Cristina: Nothing I can do is going to bring them back.
Reverend John: Jesus didn't come to free us from pain. He came to give us the strength to bear it.
Jack Jordan: I'm gonna turn myself in. Marianne Jordan: What? Why would you do that, Jack? Jack Jordan: It's my duty. Marianne Jordan: Your duty's to your family! Jack Jordan: My duty's to God.
[from trailer] Paul Rivers: They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?
Paul Rivers: We have lived on a fraud a long time.
Jack Jordan: I just ran over a man and two little girls.
Jack Jordan: If someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn your other to him also.
[holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Paul Rivers: Ah. The culprit.
