Skylark (1993 TV Movie)

Christopher Bell: Caleb Witting

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Quotes 

• 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] 

• 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.

• Caleb : What are you going to do when we're gone, Papa?

  Jacob Witting : I'll miss you.

• Caleb : I've never been in a car before.

  Chub 'Chubbers' Horatio : About time you were. Wanna drive?

  Caleb : [Nervously]  No.

• Caleb : What's dashing?

  Lou Wheaton : That's what I'm doing, right now. Dashing into the water.

  Caleb : You are?

  Lou Wheaton : You wanna come? I'm going skinny-dipping.

  Harriet Wheaton : Lou! Not in front of the children!

  Lou Wheaton : Harriet, what is you do each evening, when everyone's in bed?

  Harriet Wheaton : Lou!

  Caleb : No clothes on?

  [Runs after her] 

  Caleb : You mean you're gonna swim all naked?

  Sarah Witting : Everyone goes skinny-dipping.

  Caleb : [Calling]  Anna! Anna! Come here! In the moonlight she looks like a big fish!

  [Everyone laughs] 

• Lou Wheaton : What's so funny?

  Sarah Witting : We had a lovely day.

  Matty Wheaton : Catch any fish?

  Sarah Witting : No.

  Lou Wheaton : Tell me. You gonna tell me? Tell me.

  Caleb : [Giggling]  Aw, it's a secret.

  Lou Wheaton : Oh-oh, a Chub secret? Oh, I will make a deal with you. You tell me the Chub secret, and I will tell you Chub's real name. You can blackmail him.

  Caleb : What's blackmail?

  Harriet Wheaton : A criminal act, my dear.

  Lou Wheaton : Come along, Caleb. Let us go to the porch, where I will reveal, only to you mind you, Chub's real name.