‘I submit,’ the prophet said, ‘that everything that has ever happened on this earth has happened for a reason.’ Chapter 12 The light we carry within us is the ark that carried Noah and his people over the face of the terrible waters, and I submit that we were saved …. The flu,’ the prophet said, ‘the great cleansing that we suffered twenty years ago, that flu was our flood. (Travelling Symphony motto) Chapter 11īeing alive is a risk.
Chapter 11īecause survival is insufficient. What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. Chapter 10Īll three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labelled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. The problem with the Traveling Symphony was the same problem suffered by every group of people everywhere since before the collapse, undoubtedly since well before the beginning of recorded history. I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. They walked slowly with weapons in hand, the actors running their lines and the musicians trying to ignore the actors, scouts watching for danger ahead and behind on the road. Chapter 7Īugust always gazed longingly at televisions. He’d played in a punk band in college and longed for the sound of an electric guitar. He himself found it difficult to live in the present. ‘People want what was best about the world,’ Dieter said. They’d performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings. ‘If you can remember your lines in questionable territory, you’ll be fine onstage.’ (Gil) Chapter 7 The ships were lit up to prevent collisions in the dark, and when she looked out at them she felt stranded, the blaze of light on the horizon both filled with mystery and impossibly distant, a fairy-tale kingdom.
That evening on the beach below her hotel, Miranda was seized by a loneliness she couldn’t explain. ‘Good night, Jeevan.’ Hua disconnected and Jeevan was alone in the snow. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city. Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. They drank for a few more minutes and then went their separate ways in the storm. In the lobby, the people gathered at the bar clinked their glasses together. But now there was a prickling at the back of his neck, a sense of being watched from above. That’s a ridiculous thought, Jeevan told himself. He was thinking about the way the dropped curtain closed off the fourth wall and turned the stage into a room, albeit a room with cavernous space instead of a ceiling, fathoms of catwalks and lights between which a soul might slip undetected. No one looked at Jeevan, and it occurred to him that his role in this performance was done. He swayed, his eyes unfocused, and it was obvious to Jeevan that he wasn’t Lear anymore. I’ve been waiting my whole life, I just don’t know what the hell for.But Arthur Leander was running out of time. No, I haven’t been waiting for you to retire. I know you’ve been waiting for years for me to either drop dead or retire…
The terminal quotes free#
You set him free so that somebody else can have the pleasure of catching him. Why Viktor Navorski?Īmelia Warren: That’s something a guy like you could never understand. You are the kind of woman who can get any guy she wants. But America doesn’t work that way.įrank Dixon: I’m just curious. Viktor Navorski: So, I have chance go New York, 50-50.ĭelores Torres: Yes, that’s a beautiful way to look at it. Viktor Navorski: You… you have two stamp. Why do you wait here two hours every day when I’ve told you there’s nothing I can do for you – that your new visa will not arrive until your country is recognized by the United States? Enjoy.ĭelores Torres: Let me ask you something, Mr.
The terminal quotes movie#
It’s a really inspirational movie about a person who is stranded in an airport in America due to his home country undergoing revolution.īelow are some great quotes from the movie. I watched The Terminal several years ago and till this day, I still watch it.
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