“That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I love everything about you that hurts.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“• Dan: I love you.
• Alice: Where?
• Dan: What?
• Alice: Show me. 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.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Everything is a version of something else.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.
Dan: Since when?
Alice: Now. Just now.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“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.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“DAN
What do you want?
ALICE
To be loved.
DAN
That simple?
ALICE
It's a big want.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Dan: You've ruined my life.
Anna: You'll get over it.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Alice: Is it because she's successful?
Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Pleasure and self destruction...The perfect poison.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Alice: Did you phone her, beg her to come back - when you went for lovely walks?
Dan: Yes.
Alice: You're a piece of shit.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Anna: Since my opening last year...I'm disgusting.
Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Everything is a version of something else”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
Patrick Marber
Born place: in Wimbledon, London, The United Kingdom
Born date September 19, 1964
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“Your brother Trent. And Travis. And you’re Thomas. Who am I missing? Tiger and Toadstool?”
― Jamie McGuire, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.”
― Stephen Fry, quote from The Liar
“He shouldn’t have touched Grace. She liked me. Damn it, she liked me. But he just stands there like the god he thinks he is while the rest of us pay his dues.”
― Patty Blount, quote from Some Boys
“And there in the darkness of the hotel room, scarcely more than twenty-four hours before the maybe end of the world, the three of them managed to laugh together. It turned out that no amount of terror could stop the great human need to connect. Or maybe, Anita thought, terror was actually at the heart of that need. After all, every life ended in an apocalypse, in one way or another.”
― Tommy Wallach, quote from We All Looked Up
“We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, I feared stopping, and it is ironic that it was only when I finally stopped that I moved the most. I know now that we never truly stop, our journey is never complete, because we will continue to flourish - just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from The Year I Met You
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