Quotes from Quvenzhane Wallis movies and TV shows

Will Stacks: See, you gotta play the cards that you've been dealt. No matter how bad the cards are.
Annie: What if you don't have any cards.
Will Stacks: Then you bluff.

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Hushpuppy: Strong animals know when your hearts are weak, and that makes 'em hungry. And they start comin'.

Hushpuppy: They think we're all gonna drown down here. But we ain't going nowhere.

Hushpuppy: The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece... the entire universe will get busted.

Hushpuppy: When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me flying around in invisible pieces.

Hushpuppy: It didn't look like a prison, it looked more like a fish tank with no water. They say that we were here for our own good.

Hushpuppy: I hope you die and after you die I'll go to your grave and eat birthday cake all by myself.

Hushpuppy: Everybody loses the thing that made them. It's even how it's supposed to be in nature. The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don't run.

Hushpuppy: I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it right.

Hushpuppy: Sometimes you can break something so bad, that it can't get put back together.

Hushpuppy: Back when Daddy used to talk about Mama, he says she was so pretty, she never even had to turn on the stove. She just walked into the room and all the water starts to boil.

Hushpuppy: For the animals that didn't have a dad to put them in a boat, the end of the world already happened.

Hushpuppy: I can count all the times I've been lifted. I can count all the times I've been lifted on two fingers.

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