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: Who are you?Eli: I'm like you.Oskar: What do you mean?Eli: What are you staring at? Well?Eli: Are you looking at me?Eli: So scream! Squeal!Eli: Those were the first words I heard you say.Oskar: I don't kill people.Eli: No, but you'd like to. If you could... To get revenge. Right?Oskar: Yes.Eli: Oskar, I do it because I have to.Eli: Be me, for a while.Eli: Please Oskar... Be me, for a little while.
I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.
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.