the manuscript;

“Paddington wouldn’t hesitate if any of us needed help. He looks for the good in all of us. Paddington looks in the good in all of us and somehow he finds it.”

“After all these years...to be going back to where it all started. Back to the Matrix.”

“C'mon, Michael! It's game time! Get your Hanes on, lace up your Nikes, grab your Wheaties and your Gatorade, and we'll pick up a Big Mac on the way to the ballpark.”

“You know, when you were growing up, you were eccentric to other people. You maybe seemed weird, but it was just because you were braver and more honest than everybody else. And you could see me when I was hiding from everybody. And sometimes you could see me before I saw myself. I needed that in my life. And you are my sister. I would have loved having you around all these years. You left a big hole by leaving.”

“It's only the second week of summer and there's already been a dead fish in the pool. We were performing a science experiment: we were trying to get it back alive.”

“The Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot...” -- V for Vendetta (2005), dir. James McTeigue

LOVE AND MONSTERS (2020) dir. Michael Matthews

“There is no easy way to say this. This world, it’s a video game. Milly, I know this world is just a game. But this place, these people, that’s all I have.”

“When looking to travel incognito, it's safest to travel as a widow. People are always anxious to avoid conversation about death. Widows scare them. And there's no better disguise than fear.”

“You inheret too much power. You have proven that you can rule yourself. Now you must learn to rule others. Something none of your ancestors learned.”

“Like cooking: I mean, have you never heard of takeout? And cleaning: let's don't and say we did. Quality time with your kids: You know what? Quit bugging 'em. Leave 'em alone. They like it!”

“Do you have any idea what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spending every day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be in not knowing where I am?”

“Your friendship has brought glorious technicolor to my life. lt's been there even in the darkest of times and I am the luckiest person alive for that gift. I hope I didn't take it for granted. I think maybe I did. Because sometimes you don't see that the best thing that ever happened to you is sitting there, right under your nose. And thats fine too. lt really is. Because I've realized that no matter where you are, or what you're doing, or who you're with...I will always, honestly, truly, completely, love you.”

“Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's shortcomings but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”

“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it.”

“Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.”