Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah

I've tried breaking things to feel better - and found that it only feels better while things are breaking, not the next moment, when they're broken. It's a release that leads to nowhere.

There’s such power in that, being someone’s focus.

You leave the place you’re from, you have to. But you also need to have it stay in you for a long time. It is your center.

I’ve tried breaking things to feel better and found that it only feels better while things are breaking.

As much as you obsess about all the things that can go wrong, it is inevitably something you can’t imagine that ends up going wrong. Which justifies worrying about everything just to make sure it’s all covered.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

I’m always jealous of people who get to be new to New York because they get to be amazed by it... I worry that it’s like living at a high elevation. I’ve gotten used to breathing here and every part of my body is tuned to living here.

It's like a fairy tale, and we're the shadows who are turning back into boys.

I'm still me, and eventually he will see that.

I'm saying you have me nestled so comfortingly in your idea of who I am, you have no idea who I actually am.

Because I'm so tired of worshipping breakable things. Because I wanted to see the impulse through. Because I wanted to see the look on their faces. Because I wanted to do something that I've kept inside of me so they could see what's been inside me all this time.

So we're not just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?" Parker asks. "Wrong question." Li replies. "My point isn't about deck chairs. Nobody cares about deck chairs. What I'm saying is - there comes a time, long before the accident, when you decide how many lifeboats the Titanic should have.