Train Dreams 2025 quotes

Robert Grainier

You told Adrien that these tents are from the Civil War?

Arn Peeples

That's right. Union infantry. After that, they went to the US Cavalry for the Indian campaigns. These old things have served longer than the people they sheltered. Rough canvas, but they'll probably be here long after we're gone.

Robert Grainier

Hmmm.

Arn Peeples

What's keeping you awake over there?

Robert Grainier

Oh, uh... Arn, do you... do you think that... the bad things that we do follow us through life?

Arn Peeples

I don't know. I've seen bad men raised up and good men brought to their knees. I reckon if I could figure it out, I'd be sleeping next to someone a lot better-looking than you.

Arn Peeples

A tree was a friend if you let it alone. But the second the blade bit in, you had yourself a war and the tree was a killer.

Claire Thompson

In the forest, every least thing's important. It's all threaded together. So you can't tell where one thing ends and another begins. If you really look at it, the little insects you can't even see, they play a role as vital as the river. The dead tree is as important as the living one. There must be something for us to learn from that.

Arn Peeples

My family is everywhere there's a smiling face. Never been somewhere I didn't have some family there.

Robert Grainier

Newness of the experience.

Arn Peeples

Not too many folks I cross paths with more than once in this life. I see it is a blessing when they're brought back around.

Narrator

Seeing Kate again felt as real as anything else in his life, even as he wondered if it really happened to him. He spent many days and evenings wandering the forests and fields of the region, looking for any sign of her. Though he found none, he spent the rest of his days waiting, so he would be there if she ever came back.

Claire Thompson

That's where all those myths come from, you know? All those flood stories. All those different religions all over the world. It's just the same story, different slants.

Arn Peeples

The world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we will not know how it affects the design of things.

Claire Thompson

The world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit.

Narrator

There were once passageways to the old world; strange trails, hidden paths. You'd turn a corner and suddenly find yourself face-to-face with the great mystery, the foundation of all things. And even though that old world is gone now, even though it's been rolled up like a scroll and put somewhere, you can still feel the echo of it.

Arn Peeples

We're but children on this earth pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods.

Narrator

When Robert Grainier died in his sleep sometime in November of 1968, his life ended as quietly as it had begun. He'd never purchased a firearm or spoken into a telephone. He had no idea who his parents might have been, and he left no heirs behind him. But on that spring day, as he misplaced all sense of up and down, he felt, at last, connected to it all.

Claire Thompson

You just go through what you go through.