“Some day you’ll call me the one that got away.” -Jessie from Going Under.”
“If this is the real you, whoever told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you worse advice.” - Claire from Going Under.”
“You might score some touchdowns on the football field, but you can forget about getting into Claire’s end zone”. -Payton from Going Under”
“Do you suffer from restless lip syndrome because they make medication for that?” -Jessie from Going Under.”
“When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.”
“I hope he got plenty of rest last night because his legs are gonna be real tired after he runs through your mind all day.”
“Am I crazy for thinking I could have a chance with her?”
“I hope you know CPR because you are going to take Jessie's breath away.”
“I feel myself...going under. I'm drowning in you because I am so hopelessly in love with you. You're the only one I want.”
“No and Yes. No, it doesn't change what I think about you, and yes, it validated you're still an asshole.”
“Hey, there's a song about me called 'Jessie's Girl.' I still hear it on the radio occasionally."
"Yeah, everybody wishes they had Jessie's girl," he laughed.”
“but Betty…the boy wants to be your Fred Flintstone so he can make your Bedrock. Peyton from Going Under”
“He's such a creep. He gave me that up-and-down look with those weird grunting and moaning sounds he makes. I feel like I need a morning-after pill and strong antibiotics.”
“We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.”
“In order to verify the conservation of energy, we
must be careful that we have not put any in or taken any out. Second, the energy
has a large number of different forms, and there is a formula for each one. These
are: gravitational energy, kinetic energy, heat energy, elastic energy, electrical
energy, chemical energy, radiant energy, nuclear energy, mass energy. If we total
up the formulas for each of these contributions, it will not change except for energy
going in and out.
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what
energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite
amount. It is not that way. However, there are formulas for calculating some
numerical quantity, and when we add it all together it gives "28"'—always the
same number. It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or
the reasons for the various formulas.”
“From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.”
“You crack me right the fuck up, babe.”
“Marie Caroline Jensen, will you marry me?” he asked suddenly, looking right into my eyes. I bit my lip, trying to decide how long to drag it out. Maybe a little longer…he’d used the “b” word, I should probably make him suffer. I looked away, refusing to meet his eyes as he stopped laughing and grew still.
“Marie?” he asked, his voice suddenly strained. “Oh fuck, don’t do this to me, please. I—”
“Yes,” I said, catching his eye and smirking. “I’ll marry your big, dumb ass but only because you said the magic word.”
“Fuck? You’re right, that is a magic word. Let’s test it out.”
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