Ngunda Oti: You'll see little man, plenty of times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret I find out. We know we alone. Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... but they scared shitless.
Daisy: Goodnight Benjamin.
Benjamin Button: Goodnight Daisy.
Daisy: Sleep with me.
Benjamin Button: Absolutely.
Benjamin Button: My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone.
Queenie: You never know what's comin' for ya.
Benjamin Button: Some nights, I'd have to sleep alone. I didn't mind, I would listen to the house breathin'. All those people sleepin'. I felt... safe.
Captain Mike: Why is it when you showed up you were no bigger than a pollard with one foot in the grave. Now, either I drank a hell of a lot more than I think I did, or you spry'd up. What's your secret?
Benjamin Button: Well captain, you *did* drink a lot.
Elizabeth Abbott: You haven't been with many women, have you?
Benjamin Button: Not on Sundays.
Daisy: Loving you is worth everything to me...
Daisy: I have to go pee.
Queenie: Poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.
Benjamin Button: I'm always lookin' out my own eyes.
Benjamin Button: What if I told you that instead of gettin' older, I was gettin' younger than everybody else?
Mr. Daws: Did I ever tell you I been struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was just sittin' in my truck just minding my own business:
[brief footage of a man getting struck by lightning]
Mr. Daws: Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was in the field, just tending to my cows:
[brief footage of a man getting struck by lightning]
Dr. Rose: Where'd he come from?
Queenie: My sister's child. From Lafayette. She had an unfortunate adventure. The poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.
[from trailer]
Daisy - Age 7: Are you sick?
Benjamin Button: They said I was gonna die soon but, maybe not.
Daisy - Age 7: You're odd.
[first lines]
Daisy: What are you looking at, Caroline?
Caroline: The wind, mom.
[yawns]
Caroline: They say the hurricane is coming.
Dr. Rose: Queenie, some creatures weren't meant to survive.
Queenie: [observing Benjamin] Mm-mm, no, this baby here is a miracle, that's for certain...
[turns to Dr. Rose]
Queenie: just like the kind of miracle one hopes to see.
[Dr. Rose shrugs in defeat]
