Oskar: Are you a vampire?Eli: I live off blood... Yes.Oskar: Are you... dead?Eli: No. Can't you tell?Oskar: But... Are you old?Eli: I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.
Eli: Oskar... Do you like me?Oskar: Yeah, a lot.Eli: If I wasn't a girl... would you like me anyway?Oskar: I suppose so.
Oskar: How old are you?Eli: Twelve... more or less.Eli: What about you?Oskar: Twelve years, eight months and nine days. What do you mean, "more or less"?Oskar: When's your birthday?Eli: I don't know.Oskar: Don't you celebrate your birthday? Your parents... they've got to know.Eli: Oskar: Then you don't get any birthday presents, do you?Eli: No.
I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.