Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003 TV Movie)

Thora Birch: Liz Murray

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• Liz Murray : I'd give it back, all of it, if I could have my family back.

• Liz Murray : I love you, dad.

  Peter : That's a waste of energy.

• Jean Murray : Lisa said you stopped going to school.

  Liz Murray : I am going to go back.

  Jean Murray : When?

  Liz Murray : When you get better.

• Liz Murray : I knew at that moment I had to make a choice. I could submit to everything that was happening and live a life of excuses... or I could push myself. I could push myself and make my life good.

• Liz Murray : Sometimes I feel like there is skin upon the world. And those of us who are born under it, can see threw it. We just can't get threw it.

• Liz Murray : I loved my mother, so much. She was a drug addict. She was an alcoholic. She was legally blind. She was a schizophrenic. But I never forgot, that she did love me. Even if, if she did. All the time. All the time. All the... All the time.

• Teacher at Public School : Elizabeth is a fine name. What's your problem with it?

  Liz Murray : My mom calls me Elizabeth when she is going insane.

• Liz Murray : I was 15 when I went out in the world. What's a home anyway? A roof? A bed? A place where when you go there, they have to take you? If so, then I was 15 when I became homeless.

• Liz Murray : I'm smart. I know I can succeed. I just need a chance. A chance to climb out of this place I've born in. Everyone I know are angry and tired. They're trying to survive. But I know that there is a world out there that is better, that's better developed. And I want to live in it.

• Liz Murray : I'm 17. I don't want to be 21 before I finish high school.

  David : So you're trying to do four years of high school in what, three?

  Liz Murray : Two.

• Chris : But you are not a freak?

  Liz Murray : No.

  Chris : O... That's to bad. I am.

• Liz Murray : My mother was dying. My father was gone. But I had to believe that their road would rise up to meet me.

• Liz Murray : But I still didn't know how to be in school. I still didn't know how to be normal.

• David : You're in.

  Liz Murray : But you told the others you wouldn't let them know until Friday.

  David : You're in.

• Lisa : I loved going to school so much. You never went to school. Why would they gave you a scholarship?

  Liz Murray : Because I'm homeless and I'm doing really well on school.

  Lisa : You're not homeless, Liz. You could stay here.

  Liz Murray : No, I couldn't.

• David : [about Harvard]  Does it look like you thought it would?

  Liz Murray : Better.

• Chris : I don't want to go to school. I don't belong there and neither do you.

  Liz Murray : Yes, I do.

  Chris : You think they let people like us in to Harvard?