Skylark (1993 TV Movie)
Christopher Walken: Jacob Witting
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Quotes
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Jacob Witting : I love you, Sarah. There are some things that can't be written... in a letter. I'm not good with words.
Sarah Witting : You're fine with words. I never thought you'd come. I dreamed about it at night when the sea sounded like wind through the grasses. I thought about it at night when Caleb had bad dreams. I saw your face everywhere, Jacob, everywhere. I'd look at the sea and see your face there, and in the sky. When I looked at Anna and Caleb you were there. Once in the street I saw somebody that looked like you and I rushed after him. Once I met the train because something told me maybe you'd be there... but I never thought you'd come. Here I was like a child come home to my beautiful sea and I should've been happy but I was frightened. And I am frightened because... this terrible love for you is so strong I, I've never known such a thing before.
Jacob Witting : [whispered] I know.
Sarah Witting : I never thought you'd come.
Caleb : [Jacob kisses Sarah] They're kissing and hugging!
Chub 'Chubbers' Horatio : Of course they are.
Sarah Witting : Once Matty asked me how long I'd stay here and I know now. I came to stay long enough to say goodbye. I think, Jacob, our baby should be born on the prairie. It's the right thing.
[pauses]
Sarah Witting : You were right - some things can't be written in a letter. You, you said it once; sometimes words aren't good enough... Jacob?
[he smiles, they laugh and hug]
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Jacob Witting : I think she's something more than fat, Sarah.
Sarah Witting : What?
Caleb : What does Papa mean?
Anna Witting : Kittens. He means kittens.
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Jacob Witting : I could've been gone. I could have gone for water when this happened.
Sarah Witting : But you weren't gone.
Jacob Witting : You might've been here alone with the children. You have to go, Sarah. You have to take Anna and Caleb away from here.
Sarah Witting : No, Jacob.
Jacob Witting : Sarah, there's no water. There's NOTHING here for Anna and Caleb. I can't have them here. They can't go alone.
Sarah Witting : We won't leave you. I won't go. I can't go.
Jacob Witting : I know, but you and the children have to go. Do you understand? Sarah, this land is my life. Like your father and the sea. I can't go away from it. But you have to. But without you, I-
[they hug]
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Sarah Witting : What will happen to us?
Jacob Witting : We'll write letters. We've written letters before.
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Jacob Witting : Excuse me, could you tell me where the Wheaton's live?
Chub 'Chubbers' Horatio : Get in, I'll take you there. I'm Chub...
Jacob Witting : Chubbers Horatio Umberto Bell. I'm Jacob Witting.
Chub 'Chubbers' Horatio : Jacob Witting, yeah. About time you got here.
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Caleb : What are you going to do when we're gone, Papa?
Jacob Witting : I'll miss you.
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Jacob Witting : I can't pay you, Jess.
Jess Stearns : I didn't come to get paid. I came to help.
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Jess Stearns : Someday when times are better and there's money to be earned, I'll buy a place like this. My Papa used to say a man is rich if he has land. People, they come and go, but the land is always there. Got the whole world under your feet.
Jacob Witting : The whole world. That's what I used to think.
Jess Stearns : The whole world, Jacob.
