"I killed the American. I was the only one who shot at you. They did nothing...nothing. Kill me, but save my brother, he did nothing....nothing....save my brother....he did nothing."
In the shootout with the police, after the police have shot his brother Ahmed, Yussef puts up his hands and surrenders to the police. The direness of his mistake comes into focus as he sees his brother get wounded by a police bullet, and his grief leads him to take full responsibility for his crime.
Mike: My mom says Mexico is dangerous.
Santiago: Yes, it's full of Mexicans
This conversation takes place when Amelia has decided to take the children to Tijuana with her for her son's wedding. Mike has been warned by his mother about going over the border and he has inherited some of his xenophobic perceptions from her. Santiago, an irreverent young man, makes fun of the boy's preconceptions by joking about the perception of Mexican people as "dangerous."
"Richard, why did we come here?"
Susan is not enjoying the trip to Morocco. Richard wanted them to go somewhere that would make them concentrate on each other and help them grieve the death of their baby. This shows that Susan is not very open to Richard at this moment in their marriage, and that she has an intense skepticism about their having come to Morocco.
"They look at us like we're monsters."
Chieko, a deaf-mute teenager, says this to her friend when they cannot connect with boys their own age. They want very badly to have romantic and sexual experiences, but the perceptions about their disability prevent people from wanting to connect, and Chieko laments the fact that they are looked at like "monsters."
"You leave, I'll kill you. I'll kill you!"
After Susan is shot, their tour bus stops in a very small village and waits for an ambulance to come and pick her up. When the hours stack up, the other tourists want to leave, but Richard is angry that they are abandoning him and his wife in the village. Pushed to his emotional limit, he threatens the other tourists.
"I'm scared that what happened to Sam is gonna happen to me...Sam died while he was sleeping."
Debbie, Richard and Susan's young daughter, worries to her nanny, Amelia, that she will die if she goes to sleep. She alludes to the fact that her younger sibling recently died of sudden infant death syndrome, and this event has made her afraid of going to sleep.
"My mother always paid attention."
Chieko says this to her father as a way of complaining that he is not as attentive and loving as her mother was. Having recently lost her mother to suicide, Chieko feels lonely and resents her father for not being able to fill the space that her mother has left.
Richard: How many wives do you have?
Man: I can only afford one.
While they are waiting for an ambulance in the house, Richard asks the Moroccan man who has been helping them how many wives he has, somewhat jokingly. The man replies that he can only afford one and the two of them laugh about this.
"I just did something stupid."
When Santiago leaves them in the desert after running from the border patrol, Mike tells Amelia that he thinks she is bad, but she assures him she is not. She says, "I just did something stupid" as a kind of consolation for him, recognizing that she did not adequately think through the decision to bring the Jones children to Mexico, or to let Santiago drive.
"I raised these kids since they were born. Mike and Debbie are like my own children."
When she is brought into the police station, Amelia tells the officer that she cannot be deported and separated from the children because she practically raised them and thinks of them as her own. She is heartbroken because her mistake has led to her deportation, which will rip her away from the life she has had in America for 16 years.
