Alien Visitor (1996)

Alethea McGrath: Grandmother

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Grandmother : It wasn't so long ago, people really did live their lives like that.

• Grandmother : [beginning her story]  She said that she hadn't known, didn't know, where she was, or even how she came to be there. Everything was strange to her. The smells, the terrain, the colors, the light. She was abandoned in a place that was at once hostile, and majestic.

• Grandmother : I suppose it must be nice to be able to try one set of actions, and then, if things don't quite work out, dispense with the outcome and the consequences, and try another set of actions for better results.

• Grandmother : A few years later I saw his photo in the newspaper. I recognized him immediately.

  Child : What's a newspaper?

  Child : It's a thing they used to have before they knew better. You're too young to know.