“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid.
Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed.
Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep.
No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way.
They all end the same, too.”
“Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.”
“Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.”
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.”
“Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.”
“What kind of assholes bring a kid into worlds like these?”
“If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.”
“They can't hurt us, you big babies! We're intangible! Why are you guys acting like you just died yesterday?”
“Trust me, this whole freakout is probably just hormonal. You only gave birth, what, a week ago? Your body's still, like, a wasteland of chemical imbalance.”
“My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.
Not everybody does.”
“You know, for a pacifist, you sure beg to get stabbed a lot”
“Dude, your husband is gonna die!”
“So what? He’s good to you and Hazel now, isn’t he? Who cares if he’s got history with some other broad?”
“When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.”
“Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died...”
“I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all-important savior...”
“Oh, fuck you, you self-righteous piece of...BALD”
“I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do”
“Officers, what offence have these men done?
DOGBERRY
Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have
belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.”
“We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.”
“Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders and searching my face intently. "Please let it be yes," he said with a gravelly edge. "Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.”
“I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.”
“Let me guess. Stark's another guy, isn't he?”
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