Bridge to Terabithia (2007) quotes

View Quote Bill Burke: Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing - Teddy Roosevelt said that, not me.

View Quote Bill Burke: She loved you, you know.

View Quote Jack Aarons: She brought you something special when she came here, didn't she? That's what you hold on to. That's how you keep her alive.

View Quote Leslie Burke, May Belle Aarons, Little Kids: [chanting] Free the pee! Free the pee! Free the pee!

View Quote May Belle Aarons: [To Leslie] If you don't believe in the bible, God'll damn you to hell when you die!

View Quote Mrs. Myers: If any of you try to download this essay, you will be downloaded into detention.

View Quote Mrs. Myers: Jesse Aarons! I got it from your sisters. I certainly do not need it from you!

View Quote Jesse: [crying] Is it like bible says? Is she going to hell?
Jack Aarons: [shakes head] I don’t know everything about God. But I do know he’s not gonna sent that little girl to hell.
Jesse: [sobs] Then I'm going to hell because it's all my fault!

View Quote Jesse: Hey, guys.
May Belle: See? I told you.
Mary: Oh, my God, Jess. [hugs him] [sobs]
Jack: Where in God's name have you been?
Mary: Where have you been?
Jesse: Mom... I asked you. It wasn't like--
Brenda: They thought you were dead.
Jack: Brenda, hush.
Jesse: Dead? What's going on?
(long pause)
Jack: Your friend Leslie's dead. She drowned in a creek this morning. Apparently, she tried to swing across on a rope, but it broke. They think she hit her head.
Jesse: No. No, it... it's... It's not that kind of rope. It... It... It couldn't break. It wouldn't have.
Jack: But it did. [gets up from the chair and tries to comfort him] I'm sorry, son.
Jesse: [backs away] No, you're lying. She's not even dead! You're lying! [throws the book to the floor and runs out of the house to find Leslie]
Mary: Jess! [sobs]
[Outside, Jesse sees the police at Leslie's place, believing she's really dead]

View Quote Jesse: It's just that you're a good builder... for a girl.
Leslie: Yeah, well you're pretty good at art... for a boy!

View Quote Jesse: That's what Leslie Burke says, she told me to keep my mind wide open.
Ms. Edmonds: Leslie Burke is right. With a mind like yours wide open, you could create a whole new world.

View Quote Leslie: I don't think God goes around damning people to hell.
Jesse: Why not?
Leslie: Because He's too busy running all this!

View Quote Leslie: My dad says that TV kills your brain cells.
Scott Hoager: Your dad doesn't know anything. We watch TV, like every day!
Leslie: I rest my case.

View Quote Scott Hoager: So I guess you're the fastest kid in school now, huh?
[Jesse makes a fist at him]
Scott Hoager: It's a joke, dude!
[punches him hard into a wall]
Scott Hoager: Are you nuts?!

View Quote [Leslie has ketchup all over her face]
Jesse Aarons: What happened to you?
Leslie Burke: Janice Avery is a very talented person. She can shoot ketchup packets over four rows of seats.
Jesse Aarons: [snickers] Jeez.