You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.
Read more Ian Donnelly QuotesFrom: Arrival
Louise Banks: Let's say that I taught them Chess instead of English. Every conversation would be a game. Every idea expressed through opposition, victory, defeat. You see the problem? If all I ever gave you was a hammer...Colonel Weber: Everything's a nail.
Louise Banks: The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means?Colonel Weber: So we can learn heptapod. If we survive.Louise Banks: If you learn it, when you really learn it, you begin to perceive time the way that they do. So you can see what's to come. But time, it isn't the same for them. It's non-linear.
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