Paul Rivers quotes from 21 Grams (2003)

Paul Rivers

They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?

Paul Rivers

Did you know that eating alone could cause kidney damage? And that's BAD.

Paul Rivers

Just... disappear.

Paul Rivers

I can't keep going like this. The insemination, the child. It's like we're trying to put a Band-Aid on something that's just been bled dry.

Paul Rivers

So this is death's waiting room.

Paul Rivers

What I doing in this precorpse club?

Paul Rivers

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's a number hidden in every aspect of life.

Paul Rivers

We've been a fraud for a long time, Mary.

Paul Rivers

There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet.

Paul Rivers

Ah. The culprit.

Paul Rivers

There is a number hidden in every act of life, in every aspect of the universe. Fractals, matter-- there is a number screaming to tell us something... Numbers are a door to understanding a mystery that is bigger than us.

Cristina Peck

Katie could have lived. She'd be alive right now but that bastard left her there. Laying in the street. He left the three of them like animals. He didn't care. She could be here with me. That son of a bitch is walking the streets, and I can't even go into their room. I wanna kill him. I'm gonna kill Jack Jordan. I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch.

Paul Rivers

Slow down, just slow down.

Cristina Peck

Slow down. Slow down. While I what, huh? While I what?

Paul Rivers

Take it easy.

Cristina Peck

Take it easy? My husband and my little girls are dead, and I'm supposed to take it **** easy? I can't just go on with my life! I am paralyzed here! I am a **** amputee! Do you see that? Who are you? You owe it to Michael. No, you've got his heart. You're in house **** his wife! And sitting in his chair! We have to kill him!

Paul Rivers

Not like this.

Cristina Peck

Then how? Tell me how! Katie died with red shoelaces on. She hated red shoelaces. And she kept asking me to get her some blue ones. And I never got her the blue ones. She was wearing those **** red shoelaces when she was killed!

Paul Rivers

You shouldn't have done it

Jack Jordan

Done what?

Paul Rivers

[shouting You shouldn't have done it!

Paul's doctor

The heart that you're carrying is going to give out soon. I need you to stay in the hospital until we can find you another donor.

Paul

I can't do that. I can't wait for someone to die locked up in a white room.

Paul's doctor

Your heart is going to give out sooner than you think. You will die from asphyxiation. Its not a nice death. At least here-

Paul

You can help me die better?! You can help me die better. I'm not going to do that. I'd rather die outside.