ORPHAN: STARTERS

• "Your dreams can be a manifestation of your emotions. It's your body and mind's way of dealing with the stress and grief of what happened."
• "You came up with that story?"
• "If you're so bored, why aren't you down at the party?"
• "There's nothing wrong with being different."
• "I think people should always try to take the bad things that happen to them, and turn them into something good, don't you?"
• "That is an AA term, and I didn't go to AA. I just stopped drinking."
• "I thought you said there wasn't anything wrong with being different."
• "Oh, look! Little Bo Peep texted me! She wants her outfit back."
• "You know I'm here for you, right? You know that, right?"
• "You are such a freak."
• "Is there anything special you want me to make tonight? Do you have any favorites?"
• "So, then, you were just pretending this whole time?"
• "You know how sorry I am. I just feel like I've earned a little trust here."
• "Let me get this straight. We can talk about my mistakes, but not yours?"
• "I had to kill her, because she was going to tell on me. You're not going to tell on me, are you?"
• "I'm not a psychiatrist, but a lot of what she said made sense."
• "Why does everyone get the benefit of the doubt from you except for me?"
• "But has she ever made you feel, I don't know, uncomfortable? Or done anything she's not supposed to do? Like, has she ever hurt any of you?"
• "It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own."
• "Oh, my god, we need to take you to the hospital."
• "We want to help you, but there's nothing we can do until you stop lying to yourself."
• "You have to believe me. [Name], you have to trust me on this."
• "What are you going to do? Hit me?"
• "It's always better to burn the evidence."
• "Don't worry. You're going to heaven."
• "I know you're exhausted and upset, and so am I. But there has to be some other explanation."
• "I'm so done. I'm done connecting these dots for you."
• "You know, you can think whatever you want. I will leave tonight. If that's what you want, I'll leave tonight."
• "Look at you! What have you done to your face? What is this?"
• "I don't love you like that. That's the way [name] and I love each other. Do you understand?"
• "Stop talking to me like I'm a child!"
• "I'm calling [name] tomorrow. We're gonna have a conversation about your future in this house."
• "I'm not your fucking mommy!"

THE SHINING: STARTERS

• "Well, I'm looking for a change."
• "That is quite a story."
• "Obviously, some people can be put off by the idea of staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened."
• "Look, I'm at [place], and I still have an awful lot to go through. I don't think I can get home before nine or ten."
• "It's a beautiful place. You and [name] are gonna love it."
• "This whole place is such an enormous maze, I feel like I'll have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs every time I come in."
• "By five o'clock tonight, you'll never know anybody was ever here."
• "You probably thought you was the only one. But there are other folks, though mostly they don't know it, or don't believe it."
• "You ain't got no business going in there, anyway, so stay out! You understand? Stay out!"
• "I love it. I really do. I've never been this happy or comfortable anywhere."
• "I'm not being grouchy. I just want to finish my work."
• "When I'm in here, that means I'm working. That means don't come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?"
• "It's just like pictures in a book, [name]. It isn't real."
• "I wish we could stay here forever and ever and ever."
• "I love you, [name]. I love you more than anything else in the whole world, and I'd never do anything to hurt you. Never."
• "I had the most terrible nightmare I've ever had. It's the most horrible dream I've ever had."
• "Oh, my god! [Name], what happened to your neck?"
• "God, I'd give anything for a drink — my goddamn soul, just for a glass of beer."
• "I like you, [name]. I've always liked you. You were always the best of them."
• "Things could be better, [name]. Things could be a whole lot better."
• "I did hurt him once, okay? It was an accident! Completely unintentional! It could've happened to anybody!"
• "Are you out of your fucking mind?"
• "No, it's the truth, really! I swear it!"
• "It is so fucking typical of you to create a problem like this when I finally have the chance to accomplish something!"
• "[Name], I have let you fuck up my life so far, but I'm not going to let you fuck this up!"
• "I'm the kind of man likes to know who's buying their drinks, [name]."
• "Come on, hon, wake up. You just had a bad dream. Everything is okay."
• "I think we should discuss what should be done with him. What should be done with him?"
• "You think maybe he should be taken to a doctor?"
• "Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?!"
• "You've had your whole fucking life to think things over! What good is a few more minutes going to do you now?"
• "I said I'm not going to hurt you... I'm just going to bash your brains in! I'm going to bash them right the fuck in!"
• "[Name], listen. Let me out of here, and I'll forget the whole goddamn thing. It'll be just like nothing ever happened."
• "No need to rub it in, [name]. I'll deal with that situation as soon as I get out of here."
• "Your heart is not in this. You haven't the belly for it."
• "I fear that you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, [name]. I fear that is the only thing to do."

THE SECRET HISTORY: STARTERS

• "I suppose, at one time in my life, I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell."
• "If there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's a sort of gift I have."
• "I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."
• "He can't be all that elitist if he accepted me."
• "Well, if he doesn't know, I'm not going to tell him."
• "No person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us."
• "Bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful."
• "Let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones... then spit us out, reborn."
• "I mean to say, [name] is a handsome fellow and a sterling character, but I wouldn't want to marry him, would I?"
• "You had better watch out. I've heard some weird shit about those people."
• "You're always saying that, [name], but I just don't think it's true."
• "[Name], put me down. I'm bleeding all over you."
• "You shouldn't push your friends away like that. The best friends you'll ever have are the ones you're making right now."
• "I told you, I don't have any friends here."
• "I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. It gives one more interesting dreams."
• "I mean, he's not what you think. Or what [name] thinks, or anybody else. For a while there, he had me fooled but good."
• "The appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great."
• "You're being so nice about this. I feel awfully embarrassed by the whole thing."
• "Well, you may or may not know this, but [name] is a little jealous of you."
• "Jesus, [name], you know everything. You make me sick."
• "They say the same about arsenic, but I wouldn't like to try it."
• "Anything I do will be dangerous, you know."
• "What do you and [name] need a secret code for?"
• "A person can do an awful lot of talking in twelve hours."
• "If we keep it as casual as possible, no one will give us a second glance. People don't pay attention to ninety percent of what they see."
• "Really, there's nothing to worry about. It seems risky, but if you look at it logically, it couldn't be safer."
• "Who do you think [name] would be more apt to believe?"
• "Forgive me for being blunt, but if you think you have any influence over [name], you're sadly mistaken. He's not particularly fond of you, and if I may speak plainly, he never has been."
• "There were some things you had to know, I suppose, but I feel I've done you a disservice by involving you this far."
• "What is unthinkable is undoable."
• "Anyway, you want to come to this party?"
• "You idiot. Did you know your shirt is on inside out?"
• "I had a dream tonight. You were in it."
• "I need more than coffee."
• "I'm embarrassed that people will think we went to see such bad movies."
• "He knows we're lying. He just doesn't know what we're lying about."
• "I prefer to think of it as a redistribution of matter."
• "These guys will chop you up and put you in a garbage bag for twenty bucks."
• "You know, we've done a terrible thing."
• "You know, I'm really not attracted to you."
• "Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale."
• "You look as if you were in a barroom brawl."
• "People get upset, all of a sudden they want to listen to old hippie garbage they would never listen to if they were in their right mind. When my cat died, I had to go out and borrow all these Simon & Garfunkel records."
• "By the way, I've been meaning to ask, what did you do to your eye?"
• "Murder is pollution. The murderer defiles everyone he comes into contact with. And the only way to purify blood is through blood."
• "You amaze me. You think nothing exists if you can't see it."
• "He loved you, too. He would have wanted you to know that. You know that, don't you, dear?"
• "Do you think I should go to the hospital?"
• "I didn't take anything. You know very well I didn't."
• "I would've told them anything if I thought they'd send me home."
• "I mean, I've been drinking a bit more than I should. I'm the first to admit that."
• "I never brought your name up, man. I hardly fucking know you. But they got it from somewhere. And it wasn't from me."
• "Look at [name]. Don't you just love him? If he called me up and asked me to marry him, I would do it in, like, one second."
• "Is death really so terrible a thing? It seems terrible to you, because you are young, but who is to say he is not better off now than you are? Or — if death is a journey to another place — that you will not see him again?"
• "I'm not taking sides. I just think whatever you're doing, you picked a bad time to do it."
• "[Name], it's none of my business, but I hope for God's sake you know what you're doing."
• "What the hell is wrong with you? Why do you have to make things so hard for everybody?!"
• "You don't feel a great deal of emotion for other people, do you?"
• "My life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me."
• "I know I said earlier that he was perfect, but he wasn't perfect. Far from it — he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel, and still, we loved him, in spite of, because."
• "Flesh and blood are frail and weak, and there comes a time when we have to transcend our teachers."
• "I loved him more than my own father. I loved him more than anyone in the world."
• "I don't care what happens to him. I don't care if he dies. I wish he was dead."
• "[Name] can't hurt you. You're perfectly safe out here."
• "Kidnap is not the word that I would use."
• "So, you've come to kill me?"
• "If you want to shoot me, [name], go ahead and do it. It'll be the stupidest thing you ever did in your life."
• "The stupidest thing I ever did in my life was listening to you."
• "I managed to get out of taking my French exams next week, due to the very excellent excuse of having a gunshot wound to the stomach."
• "Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not."
• "You know, everybody is saying that you're dead."
• "Are you happy here?"

THAT '70S SHOW: STARTERS

• "Well, damn, [name], I can't control the weather!"
• "If I could run across a beach into my own arms, I would."
• "Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy."
• "What did you eat for breakfast? Carnation Instant Bitch?"
• "Why do you think the Martians won't land here? Because they're green, and they know people are going to make fun of them."
• "It's every little girl's dream to get married out of spite!"
• "We keep our Christmas decorations down there! Baby Jesus was watching!"
• "If this van's a-rockin'... we're in there, doing it."
• "Well, I'd like to help, but not as much as I'd like not to."
• "Anyone else feel like a rainbow?"
• "My heart aches with pain. When I see you, I vomit. Die away from me."
• "The beautiful cannot be held responsible for the havoc our looks create."
• "My foot is shaking, it wants to kick his ass so bad!"
• "Just once, I want the right thing and the topless thing to be the same thing!"
• "If you don't get caught, everything is legal."
• "I am not drunk! I am upset! ...And drunk."
• "Where Zen ends, ass-kicking begins."
• "Life is too short to spend it with people who annoy you."
• "I'm a hot-looking, smooth-talking, frisky-ass son of a bitch."
• "[Name], get in the car. We're going on a freaking date."
• "When I go to the hospital, I like to not die."
• "Crack a book, you lazy son of a bitch."
• "If you really do love her, there's only one thing to do, man. You got to dump her, and live free."
• "I'm going to go out, meet some boys, and crush their hearts one by one."
• "I'm like ketchup. I go good on everything."
• "I was never happy. I was just less pissed off."
• "So that's what an adulteress is! I always thought it was a tiny adult."
• "For your information, I'm already sorry I was ever born."
• "What are you gonna put on your résumé? Dumbass?"
• "I'd get up, but my back is still sore from that knife you stuck in it."
• "I don't want to go outside! There are people out there!"
• "I cannot be held responsible for the things that come out of my mouth!"
• "Oh, no. Now I have to act normal."
• "You can hit him in the groin with a banjo."
• "Well, I've got to go to sleep, because I have a big day of misery ahead of me tomorrow."
• "I don't need another friend. I've already got two."
• "Seeing you work hard and take pride in what you do... I lost respect for you, man."
• "I wanted to get you a card, but they don't have one for our specific situation. So, here — happy first communion."
• "I could kill you without making a sound."
• "I can't go outside. I'm allergic to pollen. And social situations."

CARS: STARTERS

• "I eat losers for breakfast. ...Wait, maybe I should have had breakfast. A little brekky could be good for me."
• "This ain't a one-man deal, kid. You ain't gonna win unless you got good folks behind you, and you let them do their job like they should."
• "Hey, that must be really embarrassing. But I wouldn't worry about it... because I didn't do it!"
• "And it is such an honor to be your agent that it almost hurts me to take ten percent of your winnings. And merchandising. And ancillary rights in perpetuity. Anyway!"
• "I didn't see it, but I heard you were great."
• "He's shooting at me! Why is he shooting at me?!"
• "The sixties weren't good to you, were they?"
• "Boy, you're in a heap of trouble."
• "Well, if you think that's great, you should see the rest of the town."
• "What did I tell you about talking to the accused?!"
• "Officer, babe, talk to me. How long is this gonna take? I've got to get to [place], pronto."
• "I'm gonna put him in jail 'til he rots. ...No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail 'til the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail, and let that jail rot."
• "Be careful. Folks around here are not firing on all cylinders, if you know what I mean."
• "Oh, I am so not taking you to dinner."
• "I know this may be a bad time right now, but you owe me $32,000 in legal fees."
• "I'm in hillbilly hell! My IQ is dropping by the second! I'm becoming one of them!"
• "Say thanks, and I'll be on my way. That's all you've got to say."
• "Is he making another run for it?"
• "When I say go, we go. But don't let [name] catch you."
• "I tell you what, buddy, it don't get much better than this."
• "You're in love with [name]! You're in love with [name]! You're in love! You love her! You love her! You really love her!"
• "I knew you couldn't drive. I didn't know you couldn't read."
• "Okay, you got me out here. Where are we going?"
• "Well, that was my life. And you know what? It never felt... happy. So I left [place], and just drove and drove until I finally broke down right here."
• "It's kinda nice to slow down every once in a while."
• "Hey, listen! Listen! If anybody asks you, we were out smashing mailboxes, okay?"
• "I still had a lot of stuff left in me. I never got a chance to show them."
• "When is the last time you cared about something besides yourself, hot rod? You name me one time, and I will take it all back."
• "There are good folks around here who care about one another. I don't want them depending on someone they can't count on."
• "You've been here how long, and your friends don't even know who you are?"
• "You're gonna fit right in in [place]."
• "Is it true you've been in rehab? Did you have a nervous breakdown?"
• "We're best buds! I ain't bragging or nothing, but I was in charge of hunting him down if he tried to escape."
• "You can't buy this kind of publicity! What do you even need me for? ...That's just a figure of speech, by the way. You signed a contract."
• "Good luck in [place]. I hope you find what you're looking for."
• "You're a big, shining star. You're a superstar! You don't belong there, anyway."
• "Don't worry about it, kid. It's the least I could do."
• "I didn't come all this way just to see you quit."
• "You've got a lot of stuff, kid."
• "[Name], there's a whole lot more to racing than just winning."

GOOD CHARLOTTE: SELF-TITLED STARTERS (PART II)

• "Today, I screwed up again."
• "He's really cool. I get the point."
• "I heard you say you're not good enough for me."
• "I wasn't paying attention. I walked into the wall again."
• "Today, I'll give it one last try, and then I know I'll wonder why I did it to myself once again."
• "The football players love to torture me."
• "I'm feeling like I'm not fitting in."
• "I know that I'm not fitting in with you and your stuck-up friends."
• "You people talk, but you don't even know me."
• "I don't care what they say. I don't need them anyway."
• "The best years of our lives aren't as easy as they seem."
• "One day, we'll look back, and then we'll have to laugh."
• "They used to call us names. Now they want our autograph."
• "It's all a game, and I would lose it if I played."
• "She said she'd call, but I know she won't."
• "I think he's trying to make me his son-in-law."
• "My mother warned me against girls like you."
• "Stay away from them, son. You know they're not true."
• "All they're gonna do is put you under a spell, and when you're falling down, you're going straight to hell."
• "It meant so much to have you by my side."
• "I always had your back, and you always had mine."
• "When I speak, it's like no one understands."
• "You can't cross bridges that you burn."
• "No one believes me, and you don't, either."
• "I think you lost yourself, too."
• "I practiced all the things I'd say to tell you how I feel."
• "From the first time I saw you, I only thought about you."
• "You can't change the way you feel."
• "You can't tell me this ain't real, because this is real."

GOOD CHARLOTTE: SELF-TITLED STARTERS (PART I)

• "We got free lunch, and the cool kids beat us up."
• "We made the baseball team, but they still laughed at us."
• "That girl broke up with me, 'cause I wasn't cool enough."
• "The little things, they always hang around."
• "The little things made me who I am today."
• "We checked his room. His things were gone."
• "Everything is gonna be all right now."
• "Let's do this one more time."
• "Listen up, 'cause there ain't nothing funny."
• "I want a hot girl, and a little bit of money."
• "I want to go to parties where they've got no guns."
• "All I want to do is kick the welfare."
• "All I want to do is get my share."
• "I don't want to run for the president. I just want an honest way to pay my rent."
• "I'm tired of the man always shutting me down."
• "I'm tired of my old man, 'cause he's never around."
• "I'm tired of eating off of other people's plates."
• "All I want to do is make something from nothing."
• "You're not the only one who thinks he's dead."
• "Now I'm on trial for what you think I said."
• "I never said that everything would be okay. And I never said that we would live to see another day."
• "I want good thoughts inside of my head."
• "If I fall down, would you come around, and pick me right up off the ground?"
• "What's the problem? What's with this angry kid?"
• "I know you'll never understand."
• "We can't change the way they think, so we're not changing anything."
• "I don't care about a thing today."
• "I wish that you would shut up."
• "I don't want your nine to five, or anyone to tell me how to live my life."
• "Get a real job, and get back in line."
• "They say there's not a chance for me."
• "We've been here for so many years."
• "Every time I talk, you turn away."
• "You're living all alone. You're like a dog without a bone."
• "You had a second chance, but you threw it all away."
• "I want to fall in love tonight."
• "I remember when you said everything is gonna be all right."
• "I just want one more night with you."
• "I know this is not the way it should be."
• "I don't need you to buy me pretty things."
• "I'm happy to see you smile."
• "It would make my day if you'd just stay for a while."
• "This has gone on for way too long."

LADY BIRD: STARTERS

• "I wish I could live through something."
• "Okay, fine, yours is the worst life of all. You win."
• "You should just go to city college, with your work ethic. City college, and then to jail, and then back to city college. Maybe you'd learn how to pull yourself up and not expect everyone to do everything for you."
• "You have a performative streak, I think."
• "Everyone who auditioned got in. The part I got was basically me not getting in."
• "That's something rich people do. We are not rich people."
• "Oh, yeah, I remember you! You were wearing that dress."
• "I just don't get why I'm not good at math. My dad is really good at math."
• "Have you ever been out of the country?"
• "Why do you care what I do to my clothes?"
• "My mom is always mad. It doesn't matter if I get home late. She'd be mad at me anyway."
• "I think we're done with the learning portion of high school."
• "I think [name] wants to make an entrance. She's mad we don't have a spiral staircase."
• "What the hell is in that duffel bag?!"
• "How do you know when it's working?"
• "Your mom was really sad you weren't here tonight for Thanksgiving."
• "Do you need money for the applications? Because I can help with that, too."
• "I'm not paying you to flirt!"
• "Yeah, sex is not a big deal. It's just that my mom called during it."
• "Don't worry. I'm not gonna snitch on you."
• "The government didn't have to put tracking devices on us. We bought them and put them on ourselves."
• "You are actually fucking evil. What is wrong with you?"
• "When do you think is a normal time to have sex?"
• "Being successful doesn't mean anything in and of itself. It just means that you're successful."
• "You can't do anything unless you're the center of attention, can you?"
• "Yeah, well, you know your mom's tits? They're fake. Totally fake."
• "Just because something looks ugly doesn't mean that it's morally wrong."
• "You give me a number for how much it cost to raise me, and I'm going to get older and make a lot of money, and write you a check for what I owe you, so that I never have to speak to you again."
• "I don't even sort of understand why somebody would lie about that."
• "You're going to have so much un-special sex in your life."
• "Don't you think maybe they're the same thing? Love and attention?"
• "I just wish... I wish that you liked me."
• "I want you to be the very best version of yourself you can be."
• "You aren't going to get in the car with a guy who honks, are you?"
• "I'm just crying. Some people aren't built happy, you know?"
• "I'm going to miss the fuck out of you."
• "Please, [name], please, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I appreciate everything you've done for me."
• "I wanted to tell you, but we weren't really talking when it happened."

Taking a little break from this blog for a week or two. Hope to be back soon! ✌️

THE LUMINEERS: CLEOPATRA STARTERS (PART II)

• "People say I'm no good. They write me off."
• "They're just sick in the head."
• "They're writing my history, and I think somebody should have asked me."
• "I don't know if it's all right with you."
• "Everyone is older now, and gone."
• "I will not be here forever, dear."
• "What did you do to my eyes?"
• "You promised it all, but you lied."
• "You'd better slow down, baby."
• "It's all or nothing to you."
• "You're gonna leave. It ain't gonna break my heart."
• "I've never seen nobody quite like you."
• "You can always find me where the skies are blue."
• "I would have gave all my best to you."
• "If you ever need a fool who will give you a love so true, you can always find me where the skies are blue."
• "When your fairytale is through and you're looking for someone new, you can always find me where the skies are blue."
• "I know it was you."
• "It's all been a sleight of hand."
• "I've told lies that never came true."
• "I have stolen, and so have you."
• "If we can make it through another day with you believing in my innocence, then we can make it through another year."
• "If it's all the same to you, then it's just a little white lie."
• "I don't want you to forget, or just pretend that it never happened."