heart&spinner

Dan: What’s so great about the truth? Try lying for a change – it’s the currency of the world.

Larry: Alice, tell me something that’s true.
Alice: Lying’s the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off – but it’s better if you do.

Larry: I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

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it’s a very weird movie
but the writing in it is really great
the lines have really stuck in my head for some reason
anyways… more quotes after the jump
and a real update later
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as chronologically ordered as i can remember
omitting the above favorites
spaces of course indicate separate scenes

Dan: Why did you leave?
Alice: Problems with a male.
Dan: Boyfriend?
Alice: Kind of.
Dan: And you left him, just like that?
Alice: It’s the only way to leave. “I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.”
Dan: Supposing you do still love them?
Alice: You don’t leave.

Alice: No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn’t love enough?

Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
Alice: Why?
Dan: Because I’m addicted to it. Because without it, we’re animals. Trust me.

Dan: At six, we stand round the computer and read the next day’s page, make final changes, put in a few euphemisms to amuse ourselves…
Alice: Such as?
Dan: “He was a convivial fellow” – meaning he was an alcoholic. “He valued his privacy” – gay. “He enjoyed his privacy” – raging queen.
Alice: What would my euphemism be?
Dan: She was… disarming.
Alice: That’s not a euphemism.
Dan: Yes, it is.

Dan: Didn’t fancy my sandwiches?
Alice: Don’t eat fish.
Dan: Why not?
Alice: Fish piss in the sea.
Dan: So do children.
Alice: Don’t eat children either.

Larry: [on a photography exhibit] What do you think?
Alice: It’s a lie. It’s a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and… all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it’s beautiful ’cause that’s what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone… But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so… the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie
Larry: I’m the big fat liar’s boyfriend.
Alice: Bastard!

Larry: So Anna tell me your bloke wrote a book. Any good?
Alice: Of course.
Larry: It’s about you isn’t it?
Alice: Some of me.
Larry: Oh? What did he leave out?
Alice: The truth.

Anna: Why are you dressed?
Larry: Because I think you may be about to leave me and I didn’t want to be wearing a dressing gown.

Dan: I love you!
Alice: Where?!
Dan: What?
Alice: Where is this love? I can’t see it. I can’t touch it. I can’t feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can’t do anything with your easy words!

Alice: You’re a piece of shit.
Dan: Deception is brutal, I’m not pretending otherwise.
Alice: How? How does it work? How do you do this to someone?
Dan: (Shrugs his shoulders)
Alice: Not good enough.
Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There’s a moment, there’s always a moment, “I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it”, and I don’t know when your moment was, but I bet there was one. I’m going.
Dan: It’s not safe out there.
Alice: Oh, and it’s safe in here?
Dan: What about your things?
Alice: I don’t need things.
Dan: But where will you go?
Alice: I’ll disappear.

Larry: You think because you don’t love us, or desire us, or even like us, you think you’ve won.
Alice: It’s not a war.

Dan: I apologize. If you love her you’ll let her go so she can be happy.
Larry: She doesn’t want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don’t. They want to be unhappy to confirm they’re depressed. If they were happy they couldn’t be depressed anymore. They’d have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

Anna: Love bores you.
Dan: No, it disappoints me.

Anna: Why did you swear eternal love, when all you wanted was excitement?