“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.”
“Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one.
Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?
Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.”
“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon.”
“Love is anti-mechanical, anti-materialist: that’s why bad love is still good love. It may make us unhappy, but it insists that the mechanical and the material needn’t be in charge”
“I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.”
“Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.”
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