Charlotte's Web (2006)
Dakota Fanning: Fern Arable
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Quotes
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Mr. Arable : Fern, I'm really sorry, honey, but it's been long enough.
Fern : What?
Mr. Arable : Look, he's not a baby anymore. I can't have you keeping what will soon be a 300-pound pet around the house.
Fern : No. Can't he stay in the barn? Please, dad?
Mr. Arable : No.
Fern : Please?
Mr. Arable : No. Fern, look. You know I've been selling the animals to get the new harvesting equipment. Pretty soon, there's gonna be no place in the barn for a pig.
Fern : I promised I'd take care of him.
Mr. Arable : No. I'm letting you out of your promise.
Fern : I didn't promise you. I promised Wilbur.
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Fern : What are you doing?
Mr. Arable : Fern, go back to bed.
Fern : You're not going to kill it, are you?
Mr. Arable : It's a runt. Now, go back to bed.
Fern : No, it's not fair! It can't help being born small.
Mr. Arable : Careful.
Fern : If I'd been born small, would you have killed me?
Mr. Arable : Of course not. A little girl is one thing. A runty pig is another.
Fern : There's no difference! This is unfair and unjust. How could you be so heartless?
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Mrs. Arable : [Fern was about to be on her way to Wilbur] Fern, you are not going to see that pig again. It's too late.
Fern : But he's expecting me.
Mrs. Arable : And I'm expecting you to finish your homework and go straight to bed.
Fern : But, mom, I always tell him good night.
Mrs. Arable : Not tonight.
Fern : He can't sleep if I don't.
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Fern : But, Dad, I heard them. I heard them talking about the smokehouse!
Mr. Arable : He's not your pig anymore.
Fern : Well, I wouldn't have sold him in the first place if I knew this is what they were gonna do to him.
Mr. Arable : That's what happens to a pig on the farm, Fern. You know that.
Fern : I'll see about that.