The Devil's Backbone Quotes

[first lines]

[voice over narration]

Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.

[repeated line]

Santi: Many of you will die.

Santi: [to Carlos touching his face] Bring Jacinto To Me

[last lines]

Casares: [Carlos weeping over Casares returns his rifle to his side or lap as Jamie forces Carlos to get going]

[voice over narration]

Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.

[last lines]

Casares: [Owl is carried out by Jamie followed by Galvez using his spear as a crutch to join those others left]

[narrating from beyond the grave]

Casares: A Ghost

[last to leave is Carlos looking back]

Casares: That Is What I Am

[Casarers now a ghost is at the doorway observing them heading out to the horizon]

Carlos: [stirring the water] Are you the one who sighs?

[last lines]

Carlos: [sneering at a scowling Jacinto] Santi

[shoves him back into the pool, where the gold bars weight him down, struggling to discard them Santi suddenly drags him to the bottom]

[last lines]

Jacinto: [cornered by said now spear wielding surviving orphans] What A Joke