ParaNorman (2012) quotes

View Quote Aggie: I burnt the book into dust. Now I don’t have to listen to that stupid story ANYMORE!!! [shoots lightning at Norman] Leave me alone.
Norman: No! No, I’m not leaving. Just listen to me! Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl…
Aggie: What?
Norman: A little girl, who was different…who was different from the other people in her village.
Aggie: I’m not listening! [starts duplicating and swirls around Norman]
Norman: She could see and do things that no one could understand, and that made them scared of her.
Aggie: I don’t like this story!
Norman: She turned away from everyone and became sad and lonely and had no one to turn to!
Aggie: STOP IT!
[suddenly her yellow light explodes and sends lightning from the ground]
Norman: The more she turned away from people, the more scared they were of her! And they did something terrible! They became so scared that they took her away and they killed her!
Aggie: NO!
Norman: But even though she was dead, something in her came back!
Aggie: STOP!
Norman: And this part of her wouldn’t go away in over three hundred years!
Aggie: SHUT UP!
Norman: The longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl.
[Aggie screams and lightning crackles around her sending it into the ground, tearing the ground apart]
Aggie: I'll make you SUFFER!
Norman: Why?!
Aggie: Because… Because…
Norman: Because you want everyone to hurt just as much as you are. So whenever you wake up, you play this mean game, but you don't play fair!
Aggie: They hurt me!
Norman: So you hurt them back?
Aggie: I wanted everyone to see how rotten they were.
Norman: You're just like them, Agatha.
Aggie: No, I'm not!
Norman: You're a bully!
Aggie: No, I'm NOT!
Norman: They did something awful, but, that doesn't mean you should too! All that's left of you now is mean and horrible!
Aggie: That's not true!
Norman: Then stop! This is wrong and you know it! [walks a little closer to her] You spent so long remembering the bad people, that you forgot the good ones! There must have been someone who loved you and cared for you. You don't remember them?
Aggie: Leave me alone!
Norman: But you're not alone! You have to remember!
Aggie: Keep away from ME!!! [turns away from him to flee]
Norman: Remember! [grabs her hand]

View Quote Alvin: [seeing the witch's spirit in the clouds] What is that?
Norman: It's her.

View Quote Judge Hopkins: Do you have anything to say for yourself?
Aggie: [weeping] I was only playing…
Judge Hopkins: Aye, with fire! You were speaking with the dead! [in unison with Norman] I will not risk damnation on these good people.
Norman: [in unison] Wait! No! No, you can't do this!
Aggie: I didn't do anything WRONG!!
Judge Hopkins: You are to be taken to the place of execution where you will be hanged by the neck until you be dead!
Aggie: STOP! LEAVE ME ALONE OR I'LL MAKE YOU SORRY! I'LL MAKE ALL OF YOU SORRY!!!

View Quote Norman: Uh… Hello?
Aggie: You're not welcome here. Go away.
Norman: I really need to speak with you.
Aggie: Who are you?
Norman: I'm Norman. Norman Babcock. You don't actually know me, but I know you. We're actually kind of the same, you and I.
Aggie: You're not dead.
Norman: Well, no, apart from that.
Aggie: And you're a boy.
Norman: Well, yes, that too.
Aggie: You're not like me at all.
Norman: Well, I know how you feel.
Aggie: No, you don't. You don't know anything about me.
Norman: I know your name is Agatha Prenderghast.
Aggie: What?
Norman: And I know you're probably tired, right? Because, I mean, it's really late and it's been a long night and we're, like, only eleven years old, and...
Aggie: [whispering into Norman's ear; coldly] I don't want to go to sleep, and you can't make me.

View Quote Sandra: Oh, my gosh! Do you think this isn't anything to do with Norman?
Perry: Of course not.
Old Woman: [points] Everyone, look!
[The angry mob, Sandra and Perry notice Norman climbing up on the tower of Town Hall]
Sandra: Perry, do something!
Perry: [yelling] NORMAN! Get down from there, this instant! You're supposed to be grounded.

View Quote LEAVE HIM ALONE!!

View Quote THE DEAD ARE COMING!

View Quote [about his dead grandmother] She's in the living room.

View Quote [telling Aggie's ghost the story about her] Once upon a time, long ago, there was a little girl. (Aggie: What?) A little girl who was different… Who was different from the other people in her village. (Aggie: I'm not listening!) She could see and do things that no one could understand, and that made them scared of her. (Aggie: I don't like this story!) She turned away from everyone, and became sad and lonely, and had no one to turn to! (Aggie: STOP IT!) The more she turned away from people, the more scared they were of her. And they did something terrible! They became so scared that they took her away and they killed her! (Aggie: NO!) But even though she was dead, something in her came back. (Aggie: STOP!) And this part of her, wouldn't go away. Not for 300 years! (Aggie: SHUT UP!) And the longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl.

View Quote [while confronting Aggie's ghost] They did something awful, but, that doesn't mean you should too! All that's left of you now is mean and horrible! (Aggie: That's not true!)

View Quote [Yelling at the angry mob] EVERYBODY, LISTEN UP!!!! You all need to STOP trying to kill my brother! YOU'RE ADULTS! Stop it!

View Quote Don't make me throw this hummus! It's spicy!

View Quote Everyone in the real world thinks I'm a freak, and you know what? Maybe they're right! Maybe I am a freak, but I never asked for your help... just go! GET OUT!

View Quote I didn't ask to be born this way.

View Quote I love my big booty, only my friend can squeeze it, and not Alvin.