Blue Car (2002)

David Strathairn: Auster

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Quotes 

• [after looking over her poem] 

  Auster : Okay... you tell me.

  Meg : I don't know.

  Auster : Why not? Are you afraid I'm going to tell you your work stinks?

  Meg : Does it?

  Auster : What do you think?

  Meg : Probably. I don't know.

  Auster : Come back when you do.

  [rises, starts to leave] 

  Meg : It doesn't stink. There's a line that I like.

  Auster : Which one?

  Meg : "Lost leaves spin past the glass, but the trees don't go. They stay by my window."

  Auster : What about the rest of it?

  Meg : I could go deeper.

  Auster : Good for you.

• [Repeated line] 

  Auster : Are you okay?

• Auster : A world emerges from little details. For example, when we buried my son, I had forgotten to put in my contact lenses. I stood over him before they closed the coffin, trying to fix him in my memory. I could see the red from his sweater and his blue pants, and there was a scab on his forehead that hadn't healed. It was from a bicycle accident. I could feel that scab when I kissed him, but when I looked at him... he was out of focus.