"That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created."
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"But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town."
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"Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed."
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"What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?"
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"That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever."
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"You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves."
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"You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water."
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"Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers."
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"...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine."
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"Eternity bids thee to forget."
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"Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?"
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"I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry"
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"Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." "Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement."
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"What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says."
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"Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled."
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"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
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"But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?"
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"You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos"
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"I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?"
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"In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with."
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