21 Grams

"[From trailer] They say we all lose 21 grams... who will be next?"

"Did you know that eating alone could cause kidney damage? And that's BAD."

"Just... disappear."

"I can't keep going like this. The insemination, the child. It's like we're trying to put a Band-Aid on something that's just been bled dry."

"[After waking up in the emergency room] So this is death's waiting room."

"What I doing in this precorpse club?"

"[Quoting a poem] The earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us, until it finally brought us together in this dream."

"There is a number hidden in every act of life, in every aspect of the universe. Fractals, matter-- there is a number screaming to tell us something... Numbers are a door to understanding a mystery that is bigger than us."

"We've been a fraud for a long time, Mary."

"There are so many things that have to happen for two people to meet."

"[Holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Ah. The culprit."

"How many lives do we live? How many times do we die? They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death. Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams? How much is lost? When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them? How much is gained? How much is gained? Twentyone grams. The weight of a stack of five nickels. The weight of a hummingbird. A chocolate bar. How much did 21 grams weigh?"

"You know what I thought when mom died? I couldn't understand how you could talk to people again, how you could laugh... again. I couldn't understand how you could play with us. And no, no that's a lie, life does not just go on."

"Nothing I can do is going to bring them back."

"Whoever looks for the truth deserves punishment for finding it."

"I haven't spoken to anyone in months.*"

"You can't just walk up to a woman you barely know and tell her you like her. You don't know what she's going through.*"

"God knows when a single hair moves on your head."

"I just ran over a man and two little girls."

"If someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn your other to him also."

"[After hitting his son upside the head to punish him for hitting his sister] There's no hitting in this house."

"How much does life weigh?"

"They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a hummingbird... a chocolate bar."

"How much does love weigh?"

"How much does revenge weigh?"

"This Fall, fate weighs in."

"How much does guilt weigh?"

"When do we lose 21 grams, how much goes with them?"

"Sean Penn — Paul Rivers"

"Naomi Watts — Cristina Peck"

"Benicio Del Toro — Jack Jordan"

"Danny Huston — Michael"