Bee Season (2005)

Flora Cross: Eliza

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  National Spelling Bee Pronouncer : Number 14. Eliza Naumann, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. "Oppidan".

  Eliza : "Oppidan".

  [sighs] 

  Eliza : [narrating]  My father told me once that words and letters hold all the secrets of the universe. That in there shapes and sounds, I could find everything and see beyond myself, to something special. Perfect. My father told me once that I could reach the ear of God.

• [last lines] 

  Eliza : [narrating as she walks off stage]  My father told me once that I could reach the ear of God. That words and letters would guide me to reach beyond myself; to know the world as whole again. And like the ancient mystics, God will flow through me. And we would be together.

  Miriam : [watching her on television]  She's my daughter.

  [crying, laughing]