Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Chance


You swam in a river of chance and coincidence.
You clung to the happiest accidents - the rest you let float by.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski

Friday, 20 July 2018

Pain

There are two kinds of pain in this world:
pain that hurts, and pain that alters.
The Equalizer 2 (2018)

Friday, 20 October 2017

Why

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born
and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Monday, 3 April 2017

Broken

The Beast: The broken are the more evolved.
Split (2016)

Friday, 23 December 2016

Payments

Teddy: I'd rather earn a woman's affection than pay for it.
Maeve: You're always paying for it, darling.
Westworld (2016)

Friday, 1 July 2016

Rust and Bone

Alain: Is that you in the photos with the orcas?
Stéphanie: Yes.
Alain: Is it your job?
Stéphanie: Yes.
Alain: I’d never have imagined!
Stéphanie: Why? Can’t a whore train orcas?

De Rouille et D’os (2012)

Monday, 9 May 2016

The Right Thing

Ben: You're never wrong to do the right thing.
The Intern (2015)

Thursday, 21 April 2016

Liberating

Hannah: It's really liberating to say no
to shit you hate.
Girls (2012)

Thursday, 14 April 2016

Clichés

Claire: I wish that just once
people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.
Six Feet Under (2001)

Devil

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he did not exit.
The Usual Suspects (1995)

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Good Liar

Frank: The gift of a good liar
is making people believe
you lack a talent for lying.
House of Cards (2014)

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Ideas

Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite?
An idea. Resilient… highly contagious.
Once an idea has taken hold of the brain
it’s almost impossible to eradicate.
Inception (2010)

Thursday, 24 March 2016

Choices

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 you there was one. 
Closer (2004)

Monday, 14 March 2016

Happy Days

Driver: Can I talk to you? I won’t keep you long.
I have to go somewhere and I don’t think I can come back. 
But I just wanted you to know, getting to be around you and Benicio
was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Drive (2011)