Love

Is the Extremely 

Difficult realization 

that something other

than oneself is real

-Iris Murdoch

CONTACT

ELLIE
      (a beat, then
       softly)
  You may not believe this... but
  there's a part of me that wants more
  than anything to believe in your
  God.  To believe that we're all here
  for a purpose, that all this...
  means something.  But it's because
  that part of me wants it so badly
  that I'm so stubborn about making
  sure it isn't just self-delusion.
  Of course I want to know God if
  there is one... but it has to be
  real.  Unless I have proof how can I
  be sure?

     JOSS
  Do you love your parents?

     ELLIE
      (startled)
  I never knew my mother.  My father
  died when I was nine.

     JOSS
  Did you love him?

     ELLIE
      (softly)
  Yes.  Very much.

     JOSS
  Prove it.