Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Instant Star: Season Three

Jude: [voiceover] Playing guest star on the show that made you is a surreal mixture of pride and nerves. Pride because you were the original. Nerves because you have to listen to a bunch of strangers reinterpret your music. From emo to punk to Sinatra. Still it's kinda moving to see how my music has inspired others. Inspired them to be me. Maybe even to replace me. There are those nerves again, ones that never really go away.

Jude: So does the big hair hide the devil horns?

Porsia: Okay, Outrageous Rockstars 101. Stolen limos. Putting an octopus in the hotel pool. One time, he did a strip tease outside the Juno's. And I married the guy.

Jude: What's so scary about the real me?
Patsy: More importantly, what's the real you so scared of?

Patsy: You're quivering like a pornstar in church, Jude.

Patsy: I face my fears head on.

Jude: I always end up the freakin' sucker.
Jamie: No, you end up the victim. Jude, who's fault is that? Really?

Jamie: I love you. Maybe it's time to grow up.

Jude: [voiceover] There are three types of people in the world: suckers, victims, and grown-ups. Being a grown-up means you get to choose your own destiny.

Jude: [voiceover] Kurt Cobain once said that punk rock is freedom and the worst crime is faking it. Which is why I posted some not so perfect pictures on my website. So my fans can see the real me. I think it's about time I channeled my inner Sid Viscous. Hello Jude, Rock Goddess. Good-bye Dignity.

Jude: Well nothing says becoming a man like sweet vengeance.

Jude: You're very intense for a thirteen year-old.

Sadie: You had me at 'hormonal'.

Jude: But maybe it's good for my fans to see that I'm not perfect. I'm seventeen. I make mistakes.

Karma: When I look at those photos, I see a talented musician who's not afraid to be real and a tough act to follow. Of course, Jude and I are so different. She's into heavy rifts and punk influences, where I've got a soft spot for power ballads. And I'm a virgin.

Jude: We may not be sinking to her level but we're not kissing her ass either.

Jude: That's because you never change, but I have.

Patsy: I love infiltrating suburbia and scaring the normals but why now?

Patsy: So we are here to collect his cajones.
Jude: We are here to explain to the man that it's not cool to judge women on their sexuality and then we leave.

Mr. Harrison: I mean they never ask Bob Dylan about his sex life.
Jude: Well I sure hope not, the guys like 60.

Patsy: Yeah, I got a pack of smokes and a pat on the butt from my great uncle Sid for my Butt mitzvah.

Karma: My first song is dedicated to my friend Jude Harrison who couldn't be here because of her problem with promiscuity and the bottle.

Patsy: Girl drinks. These rich kids always have the best alcohol. Savages, even their cocktails are virgins.

Patsy: Shouldn't those outfits be in Vegas mounting a mobster.

Kwest: I've got three sisters. I can coordinate blush and lipstick too.

Karma: Seriously, I will cut you.

Jude: Oh that's not virgin talk. Don't worry I got this.

Kwest: You mean the Tommy Code. Where you get what you want or what don't want.

Tommy: I don't want Sadie but she doesn't want you either.

Tommy: Add it up. You're a producer now. And she's an industry groupie.

Sadie: Now you fight for me.

Karma: Everyone else still thinks you're a whore.

Patsy: Dude, you're boob's out.

Jude: I suck and you're the best.

Jude: [voiceover] Ever enter a room and get the feeling that everyone had just been talking about you? Or at least, part of you. Still, when the right person says they have your back, it can drown out the cheers of an entire crowd. And with that, my bad day just got interesting.

Tommy: Besides you're talking to the guy who woke up in the dead center of strawberry fields in Memorial Central Park surrounded by camera clicking tourists, butt naked.

Spiederman: I'm Jude. Oh, look at my bounceful bosom.

Jude: Hold onto your clothes because she likes to rip them off.

Wally: An entire website devoted to Jude's boob and it doesn't even have the money shot.
Spiederman: Try bazongas or the Pointer Sisters.

Jude: I need help with lyrics.
Wally: How about..."Life's a test."
Spied: "But you always do your best."
Kyle: "Exposing your right breast."

Patsy: Is that French for 'remove my pants'?

Karma: Probably in the little boys' room, hiding from you Stalkerina.

Patsy: You're God among men.

Tommy: I handled you.
Jude: I don't need to be handled, thanks.
Tommy: Right because you are so unpossessive and low-maintenance.
Jude: Please. This coming from a guy who calls in sick on bad hair days.
Tommy: Fine, you want the truth. Here it is. I had to beg for this gig. I wanted to try something new. Grow a little, but I guess you are the only one around here that gets to do that.

Jude: You want me to write a song about my boob?

Jude: You want a career? You'll need Tommy producing you.

Jude: You agree to take Tommy back and I'll put you back in the spotlight so fast you'll get a sunburn.

Jude: Friends do friends favors.

Jude: What's the problem, Princess Publicity? You might even get a shot.

Jamie: I would never make you do something that wasn't good for you. Trust me. I love you.

Jude: Can you like wave your arms in the air or something when you're lying?

Tommy: You're a big girl Jude. You don't need rescuing. And neither do I.

Patsy: I'm celebrating. This bird's flying solo like she's meant to.

Jude: Just for the record, I am not high-maintenance, thank you.

Jude: [voiceover] Funny thing about the boy next door, he knows all about the influence of blues on 70s glam rock, and which drummer should be knighted. And nothing to deal with a girl like Patsy. Then again, who could manage Patsy Sewer?

Jude: Patsy needs freedom in the studio, and in a relationship I'm guessing.

Jude: Oh whatever, I remember when you pledge eternal devotion to Cyndi Lauper.

Jamie: I love you as one loves their scary boss.

Patsy: We do it Patsy Sewer style. A. No fluorescent lights. B. No heinous back beats. C. No pants on the man-folk.

Stuart: Patsy should not be on the road or in my liquor cabinet.

Jude: Patsy Sewer doesn't need saving, she needs a friend.

Patsy: Don't talk to me like I'm your pretty pony. There's only one thing you're riding and she's out there answering phones.

Patsy: Well there's one thing you should know about Patsy Sewer. She doesn't run out of shot... of vodka.

Patsy: Oh, sorry. All wiener openings are filled.

Patsy: I got him a crib with a view. I here by dub you Leonard Cohen the Second. C'mon they could be brothers. Me, you, Leonard. Free at last.

Patsy: It's awwwwesome being the person everyone trusts.

Jude: I would have figured you emerged from the womb fully grown and tongue pierced.

Jude: Can you poison this beach with your attitude?

Patsy: So that's it. Love or war? I pick war.

Patsy: Freeeedom. Better than sex.

Patsy: You are so squeaky clean. It's like hanging out with bleach.

Patsy: Why don't you stop trying to save me and work on fixing your own crappy music?

Porsia: You should stop trying to covet things that Tommy owns. Like Sadie's heart.

Jude: She really is a shooting star. Unpredictable, but beautiful.

Jude: [voiceover] Two. Just two. Two words. That's all I'm asking. Two words. That's all I need. "Patsy's fine." Or "She's Okay." Two words. Two...words.

Tommy: Patsy was fearless. Fearless. And funny, and witty, and totally out of control.

Kwest: I don't need a book on how to feel sad.

Iggy: First time I met Patsy, we scaled some rich dude's fence and swam in his pool but naked.
Kyle: First time I met Patsy, she shaved my eyebrows.
Jude: First time I met Patsy, I was arrested.
Spiederman: She used to sneak into the back door of the bakery, steal a few loaves then go down Queens Street, and hand them out to homeless kids.

Jude: We've got to fight for her because she's not here to fight for herself.
Tommy: Patsy gave up the fight when she got behind the wheel stone drunk.
Jude: Wow. You just make Darius look like Mother Teresa.

Karma: Ugh you're that girl? The fixer. Always taking care of everyone to feel useful. Want my advice. Give the boy some space. Guys don't like to let people see their emotions. It makes them feel weak.

Spiederman: Jude, he just broke up with his girlfriend who then died. Talk about intense. That's like breaking up times a million for eternity.

Spiederman: Now have to worry about Patsy's ghost coming around giving us supernatural wedgies.

Jude: [voiceover] Eighteen is big. By the time he was eighteen Mozart had already toured Europe, written his first opera and composed symphony no. 1. By 18, Stevie Wonder had mastered 18 instruments, had four hits and was composing for Motown. As for my 18th birthday, I just want everything to go right.

Tommy: I understand you want to protect your daughter. If I had a daughter I'd never let her date me.

Tommy: The only thing feeling worst than you can't move on, is the moment you realize that you can.

Pagan: I always thought one's music collection is like an autobiography you didn't write.

Sadie: I know he's never going to wake up and say it was me all along. And I know I have to get over him. And I know it's bad to use Kwest to do that, but maybe that's what I gotta do. So save the intervention, please.

Hunter: Revenge is the best revenge.

Hunter: Bingo. Blond, beautiful, and insecure. Just the way you like them.

Jamie: Lately my life's been cloudy with a chance of lame.

Stuart: People say love's complicated. But it's not. Be good to your partner, fight for him, not with him, and above all, be honest.

Jude: [voiceover] The best presents are often secret gifts you give yourself. Special things you've always wanted. So for my 18th birthday, I went all out. I decided to tell the world how I feel about Tommy Quincy. Nothing says 'I love you' like unwrapping your feelings to the world. And nothing says he doesn't like a huge dose of public humiliation.

Kwest: Then do me a favor and just stop talking. Matter of fact, let's not talk until you figure out what you want, or who.

Karma: I told you, the public can't think I have a boyfriend. Nerds, geeks, dorks, they all have to think I'm attainable.

Spiederman: Yeah they also have to believe you're not a self-involved diva.

Jamie: I think my break-through is about to become a full-blown panic attack.

Pagan: Taking stuff out on other people is like the third stage of grief.

Jamie: I don't think there's a Hallmark card that says, "I'm sorry, I blamed you for my girlfriend's death."

Jamie: She's fun, she's compassionate, but doesn't let me get away with anything, from music snobbery to pleated pants. She's willing to try anything once, twice if it scared her the first time. She loves music so much, she cried when she sees an old album in the dollar bin at the gas station. She's just... amazing.

Tommy: That's my M.O. I hurt people, especially the ones I care about. I don't deserve them.

Tommy: Leaving is the one thing I do best.

Jude: Secret relationships, they're not healthy. Trust me.

Pagan: First drafts are pure, and I like trees.

Tommy: Why is it that all the nice ones always fall for me?

Sadie: I guess we think we can fix you. You know, find the heart under all that bad boy.

Kwest: You don't have to say it if you don't feel it and I want you to tell me the truth even if it stinks.

Jude: Sometimes things just happen.

Jude: [voiceover] Some days you feel like singing from the rooftops and other days all you want to do is scream. But today, all I want is maximum R & R. Maybe make a little music while I'm at it.

Jude: Look at me, I look like a dog's breakfast with post-eggs fries.

Karma: Wow, Quincy really shorted out your circuits.

Darius: It's all about Jude Harrison. Ain't no comparison. You try to play her out but no, she's still smashing 'em. Yeah, we top billin' 'em. We still winnin'. G Major is the label and yeah, we still killin'.

Porsia: Sometimes you've got to do what's right for you and take control.

Karma: Guilt is for the little people.

Jude: Despite what you saw back there, Tommy Quincy changed my life. When I met him I was just a kid who won a talent contest, and he help open my soul and let the real music come out. And even though we might not be working together anymore, no one will ever replace him.

Jude: [voiceover] Broken-hearted, me? Please, Broken heart does not go with these boots. Okay, sometimes it's not as easy as it looks. Sometimes you've got to fake it until you make it. After all, they say living well is the best revenge. And looking hot in front of your ex-boyfriend works pretty well, too. Looking like I slaughtered a baby seal, beyond horrific.

Pagan: You're a musician. Some people want you to be an example, others want to make an example of you.

Pagan: What you need to ask yourself is, do I want to be a musician or a legend?

Pagan: A legend takes a stand even if it's unpopular. Speak up or speak out.

Pagan: I've always found it hard to make a statement if you're not saying a word.

Sadie: I'd rather die alone than get help from you.

Jude: Wearing fur and eating meat it's all so neanderthal, don't ya think? Or barbaric.

Kyle: Eating meat is barbaric?
Spiederman: You just insulted the one thing we all believe in.
Wally: And insulted another animal. The neanderthal.

Sadie: You have the cattle ward on your back. And the anti-fur people want your hide.

Tommy: Rats swim.He could turn up in all this chaos and it could be really have to tell.

Darius: You've done all you can do. I know you love being tortured by your past. It's time to let it go, man.

Jude: I'm not that type of famous person. There's a reason why I still live at home. I need to be connected to the people who love me, including my fans.

Karma: When I see something I want, I go after it. You should try it sometime.

Hunter: Do you know what it feels like when a woman you love suffers?

Jude: [voiceover] Tragedy has a way of changing people. Tragedy can make people depressed, angry, or wanna make amends. But there's a flip side to trauma, it can change your perspective. Make you realize what's really important and make you realize what you really want, or who.

Kwest: Do you think I would let your weak left hook ruin a seven year friendship?

Tommy: I'm just happy I didn't destroy your feminine jaw line.

Sadie: You have to close a door before you can open a new one.

Jude: I don't know why it is you do what you do Tommy Quincy, but I forgive you.

Jude: [voiceover] Making choices has never been my strong suit. Only because I'm too terrified to pick. It's the always that worries me. Only thing worse than not being able to make a decision, is having the big ones made for you.

Pagan: I've always believed that music is owned by the people who love it.

Pagan: If you give the music out for free...
Jude: It's useless to those who want to exploit it.

Tommy: I want all of you with me forever. I don't care if you're herding goats, waiting tables, or making music. I just want you to be happy.

Tommy: I would do anything for you, because I love you.

Sadie: You choose what's in your heart, and you know who that is.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Multiple Characters

Amy: Where did you get condoms?
Ashley: At the store anyone can get them, not like they're illegal.
Amy: Ashley, you are not using condoms!
Ashley: OK now there's some REALLY bad advice!

Amy: I don't know what my father said to you, but I am perfectly capable of speaking for myself!
Ricky: Since when?
Amy: Since I got pregnant! That's when! Since I discovered that I that I am going to have to take charge of another human being's life! You know I might as well start with my own.

Ben: I've already kissed her, but I mean I really want to kiss her. Like a man kisses a woman.
Henry: Yeah. Or like a guy. Kisses a bear. In drag.

Jack: Is everyone going crazy? Is everyone just walking around with their shirts off, 'cause I can walk around with my shirt off too, and I'd probably look a lot better than he did! You see this? This is what a real man looks like!
Grace: Ah, that's it okay? It's over, you're not a man. You're a child.
Ricky: Dude, have SOME dignity!

Grace: Having sex ruined everything for us.
Jack: Not continuing to have sex ruined everything for us.

Bunny: What people are more important than your job?
Ricky: Girls I slept with.

Adrian: Ben, friends don't live together.
Ben: Friends having babies with friends live together.

Leo: There's a lot of joy that comes with being responsible.
Ben: No, there's not.

Amy: I want you.
Ricky: Now?
Amy: Now and forever.

Adrian: Maybe I'll just take the GED like Ashley or something.
Ben: The Good Enough Degree? That's not good enough for my wife.

Adrian: You're the first person who hasn't treated me like I'm going to break.
Betty: Honey, you're already broken. What you went through, I mean it shatters people and you just have to put all the pieces back together again.

George: Nobody's had any privacy since the information highway opened.
Amy: The what?
George: The Internet.

Amy: Safe travels.
Ashley: Safe Sex.

Madison: Hey, your mom let me in.
Lauren: Yeah, well my mom doesn't know you slept with my boyfriend.

Alice: Ben do you not realize this girl's your Fatal Attraction?
Ben: I don't think I'd say she's my Fatal Attraction, she's maybe more my, uh, Basic Instinct.

Ricky: Ben doesn't hate me. He's my friend. Why would he hate me?
Adrian: Are you kidding? You just married the woman he loves.

Lauren: I don't think you're their favorite friend.
Amy: Madison slept with your boyfriend.
Lauren: But she never got pregnant.

Grace: We don't need to spend so much time alone. It's only gonna make us wanna have sex.
Jack: I'm always gonna wanna have sex with you.

Ben: Everybody knows that you slept with Adrian.
Henry: And nobody knows that you slept with Alice...while you were leading Dylan on.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Minor Characters

You can't truly be in love with someone else until you can find a way to love yourself.

Life is tough, and that’s why it’s good to have someone you love by your side, holding your hand so you can walk away from the rest of the world together.

I don't want to go out with her. I just want to marry her and have children with her.

Jack's Dad: I don't think it was wrong because it was fun. Sex is supposed to be fun. It's also supposed to be reserved for marriage. Because it's so fun, God wouldn't want us to have that much fun too young or with a lot of people. No, that's not right.

Jack's Dad: I think God set up the rules in the first place to protect women from being property.

Jack's dad: Sex is very complicated, but then again it can be very simple.

Jack's dad: Sin is just missing the mark.

Bunny: Don’t let anything come between you and a friend. Ben is your friend. Real friends are hard to find.

Marshall: Oh, that's right. I'm a Christian. So first, I will smite you, and then I will pummel you. Go home.

Kathleen Bowman: There are no secrets in high school.

Madison’s dad: That’s your argument? That your boyfriend should live in your room because it’s better than doing drugs?

Bunny: If you dance, you pay the piper.

Toby [to Amy]: I was just trying to impress you with my lack of social skills so you'd think I was perfect company for the dark one.

Ms. O'Malley: I don't care if you and Amy have a baby or not, girls like a little romance.

Adrian's Doctor: You're trying to have a baby to save a marriage you never wanted in the first place.

Jesse: There's plenty of food. And condoms. You know in case anyone gets lucky.

Dylan's Dad [to Ben]: You're not entirely harmless unless you're neutered.

Ethan [to Amy]: You know sometimes when people tell me what to do I find they are telling me what they think they should do. It's called transference.

Bunny [to Dylan]: I didn't know you were a ginger. It didn't show up on the security camera.

Daniel [to Grace]: It seems to me you're more than a little fickle so excuse me for not just jumping back into bed with you.

Toby: Secrets sound better than lies.

Bunny [to Ricky]: You're supposed to ask the girl to marry you in private and get married in public you dummy.

Dylan [to Ben]: You're criminally neurotic.

Kathy: Most of all, I miss my virginity.

Kathleen Bowman: Sex isn't really great every time you have sex.

Dylan [to Ben]: Friends are more important than anything else, so I'm sorry if I came between you and yours.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Tom

Dad is okay. He's probably playing golf with Jesus.

Tom: I love you Adrian. And because I love you I have to say this- I think you should go ahead with the wedding.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Reuben

I'm just really uncomfortable with you having sex with your boyfriend while I'm in the house.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Ricky

I happen to know a little something about women. They don't want an offer. They want to be loved. And you do to. You walked out on the best thing you could of had. And you went looking for it over and over again. Don't you come over here and hurt Adrianne again, because you've already hurt her enough by not being around her for her whole life.

Stop with the 'let'. There's no 'let' in a man's language. Start with the initiative. It's what makes a man a man. Initiative, okay?

Lots of people don't have normal lives, I don't.

They tell lies to make life more interesting when the truth would probably be more interesting than the lie.

Let's stop acting like victims and act like adults.

We're all too young to be getting married and having babies.

We gotta be men here Ben. We gotta admit we made mistakes and want to change our minds.

So that's your excuse now for not having sex with me? You haven't finished your homework?

Ben, this is a chick fight and chick fights are dangerous.

I would not go away, unless you came with me. You and John.

Let's just go to some neutral territory where we can just be with each other without feeling like we're surrounded by the past.

It's too soon to leave Adrian. You know how you know it's too soon? You had to get drunk to do it.

I wanna leave trouble alone and more than that, I want you to leave trouble alone.

I promise graduation will be special with just the two of us.

He had to learn not to be like the wicked King and Queen when he grew up.

I didn't just give you this ring to mark my territory.

Okay at this point I think I'll venture a guess, defensive sex? You're making yourself more available so I won't fool around with some other woman.

It's not like I have anything to do because college is so much easier than high school.

You know I really did want a coffee, but I didn't want to talk to you because you're a pain in the ass.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Jack

Sounds like your vagina's really busy, maybe I should come back later.

I used to ride my bike to go get tampons.

Not doing anything doesn’t mean not making out. We’re just not going to have sex.

He's 20 years old and he's not interested in any kind of sexual relationship with you? C'mon he's lying, he's just trying to seduce you.

Let's put it this way. The first half I was playing offense, the second half I was playing defense and I should've called it off at halftime.

Grace I love you and when your mom gets back I'm gonna be all out of excuses for living at your house.

Life is like that, it hits you where it hurts. But put a few ice packs on it and you'll get through it.

You didn't just tell me I could come over, you told me I could sleep over and have lots of sex with you.

Can't a person be in love with two people at the same time?

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Henry

A woman can't be smart and have big breasts.

You know what not everyone is as lucky as you are some people get stuck into relationships they don't wannabe in just because there to scared to let go of it and I don't wanna be like that... I'm too young to be like that and if I’m never as lucky as you.... if I never find someone... if I never fall in love then at least I will have tried to get what you have.

Dreams are like movies, sometimes they mean something, sometimes they don't.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: George

Is that what they do at band camp? Have sex?

Yeah, that's how we had the girls, great sex....Amy was conceived on a surfboard and Ashley was conceived on a grave at midnight!

If anyone says anything to you, I'll stick a rocket in their pocket and send them to the moon!

Get out your dream catcher cause your dreaming again.

I know a Weenie Man, He owns a Weenie Stand. He owns everything, Hot Dogs on Down. Someday, I'll be his wife, His little Weenie Wife, O how I love that hot Dog Man!

Don't be stupid Jack. Never drink alone.

That’s what sex is for, making babies.

Don’t have sex. You won’t like it. It’s not fun. Just take my word for it.

Just because you and grant have all the working parts doesn’t mean they should be working together.

Where were your boundaries last year at band camp?

Birth control is an option. School is not an option.

You cannot date your sister's... IMPREGNATOR!!!

I'm unflappable, you can't flap me.

I have to be good cop to your bad cop!

It's so romantic. Go to your boyfriend's apartment to have sex with him, then get up and leave him and your son and drive home late at night.

Hi, nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you but I hadn't heard that you're hot.

She can carve a small handgun out of a bar of soap. I could fall in love with this woman!

Love? You're too young to know what love is.

It's funny how one little argument can destroy the entire universe.

You know how much you love John? I love you more than 17 times that much. And no one is gonna treat my little girl like that.

Nobody's had any privacy since the information highway opened.

You're not old enough to have your own apartment and your old family.

I like babies, they don't talk, they don't have opinions, and they look at their parents like they're magic or something.

It's funny how one little argument can destroy the entire universe.

You know maybe it's family dinners that drive kids to drink and do drugs.

You wanna be a part of this family, you learn to keep a secret!

If there's nothing wrong with what you're doing then there's no need to sneak around.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Grace

I'm not a poster girl for virginity. I’m not some spokesman for abstinence.

Those feelings come from love. And God is love. And I'm sure that God is okay with me having sex with Jack.

It was fun. Sinfully fun.

I think it's that time of the month. I think I just got my monthly visitor. My Aunt Flo is in the house. The painters are here. I fell off the roof.

I’m not responsible for your bad feelings about yourself, you are. Maybe if you didn’t have sex with every guy you know, you wouldn’t hate yourself.

You are exactly right about that! Forgiveness belongs to God, so I'm forgetting what happened between you and Jack I have the power to do that; forget and let go.

But I imagine you need help right now; with your dad marrying an internet prostitute.

Maybe if you didn't have sex with every guy you know, you'd feel better about yourself.

Maybe "being there" is what a child needs, but it's different from what a woman needs.

I do have one regret. I regret that we waited the whole summer to have sex.

It's not my fault Adrian didn't have any friends to invite to her shower!

I am like Betty...the old Betty.

You can't go from me to a slut.

This is totally high school. If I'm going over to your apartment, I'd like to look more like a woman.

You don't do desperate. You're Adrian.

I saw you with that witch last night. It looks like she really put a spell on you.

I can't believe he was telling us not to have sex and he was having sex with someone other than my mother.

I just don't believe in the whole happily ever after thing with you.

Let me guess- you're settling for oral sex and other things when what you really want is a real relationship.

Oh now I get it, you're taking down the wallpaper in my kitchen because you wanna have sex with my mother!

You just never know when the last time you're gonna talk to someone is gonna be the last time you're gonna talk to someone.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Betty

You can't marry someone you're not sexually compatible with.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Ben

Do I wanna talk about a mistake I made with sex to a hooker?

You still have a thing for Ricky ticky rum pum pum pum?

I wish she had killed someone. That I would admire. Especially if it was someone horrible, like Hitler.

We're under doctors orders to grow up.

I didn't know Ricky's mom got...sprung.

I'm barely 17 and I have a china pattern.

He's the guy that all the girls want and you got him.

I'm 17 Amy and I'm about to be a husband and a father. I don't want to be a husband or a father.

You are so selfish. I never even wanted to marry you, I never even wanted to have sex with you in the first place. Every little ounce of pain and sadness has been because of you!

Amy loved me and I threw it all away for one night with you.

Apparently I come from a long line of alcoholics.

What if you had gotten pregnant again? What if you had somehow managed to seduce me and get pregnant again like you planned? Would you still be trying to kick me out of our condo?

I take it you couldn't find anyone to play with so you came home?

I don't think the point is for it to be okay and for us to get over it. It's for us to live with it.

I don't want to talk. I've had a bad morning. For the past 8 weeks I've had a bad morning followed by a bad night. I can't talk anymore today, okay, just leave me alone.

I'm not the mentor type. I'm a senior in high school and I'm divorced. Who needs that kind of mentor?

You know how that works, when something is absolutely forbidden it only makes me want to do it more.

I'm too old to be sent to my room. I'm divorced, I had a child, I'm 18, I'm an adult.

He wasn't supposed to try and trick you, he was supposed to try and trick your parents.

Every relationship I've ever been in was just to kill time until my turn came around again. And it will, I know it will.

Have a second wedding but just know that I'll be at the back of the church and if you decide to run, I'll be waiting for you.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Alice

Maybe it's her breasts, they're huge.

Ben there's no 3 of us. We're going to be taking turns with you. We're sharing custody.

You're all right? Henry slept with your wife and you're all right?

I don't want to be a whore. I want to be your whore.

I would never have sex with a girl, they're dramatic, they're emotional, they're fickle. It would be like having sex with myself.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Adrian

You are a good example for every girl who wants to wait to have sex before they're married.

Sex is not a competition. You can't keep Jack by just having sex with him.

You should of gone back to your hotel so I could have sex with my boyfriend, because you're never gonna get what he just said out of your head.

We're not enough of a couple to go to a funeral together?

I don't deserve to be with a guy that's not serious about me.

If we know that we're never going to be married, then why be together?

I'd be lying to myself if I had sex with you right now and told myself it was okay. I'd be lying to myself if I said I was comfortable having sex with you just because I'm feeling sorry for you.

It's normal. Normal teenagers have sex.

I'd rather be the one you cheat with, than the one you cheat on.

You're a bad boy, and I'm a bad girl. That's why you belong with me.

I'm not jealous of some prissy little virgin who thinks that she's better than everyone else! So you know what? Go do whatever you want. After all, we really aren't even friends. We're just bed buddies.

I’m more dangerous than fearless. The thing we have in common is that neither one of us doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.

I'm sure the four of us will somehow figure out a way to have our kids competing with each other.

I heard you asked Ricky to marry you. Nice one girlfriend, good luck with that non-traditional approach.
Don't ask him, just do it. Stay over one night and then never go home.

You win, you're moving in with Ricky to an apartment over the butcher shop. And I'm marrying Ben...whose family owns the butcher shop.

I'll tell you what's wrong! I used to be the sexiest girl in this high school and I don't know if I am anymore.

You know the quiet ones will always surprise you.

She's just a baby, an innocent little baby, who's taking care of her?

Going back to the way things were, seems like, I don't know, like not honoring my little girl.

A tough girl like me doesn't know how to be hurt.

Look Grace, stop saying you're gonna marry every guy you have sex with to justify it.

I'm not letting you go. We're married and I love you.

Study this big mouth.

He kissed me and it was powerful and hypnotic.

Best friends are hard to come by. You should forgive him.

You could be a little more, I don't know, considerate, respectful, appropriately sad or even appropriately happy.

Please don't tell me you're transferring schools to be with that pot smoking skank!

Just because you were thinking about something doesn't mean you were ever really going to do it.

People talking about me being gay is like people talking about Ricky being gay.

There's just no voice for the LMNOP community.

You know Ben, he likes us bad girls.

You're like the boy who cried wolf too many times.

Jealousy uses a lot more energy.

Oh I forgot, my ex husband called you a pervert.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Anne

Well I'd rather be pregnant than be fat.

I love you but mind your own teenage business.

Don't glamorized teen pregnancy. It's not an asset to be able to hide a pregnancy.

I doubt that God punishes people as nearly as much as people punish each other and themselves.

I know you do, Ben. And so do I; and I love you for loving Amy. But you know, the funny thing about love is it's not just about feeling. It's about doing. It's about doing the right thing always for the person that you love. And that's what I'm doing right now, Amy. I'm coming here to try to make you realize the awesome responsibility of taking care of a baby and raising a child...Did you really think that getting married would solve anything?

It won't change anything. You're still going to have a baby; Ricky's baby. Look I'm on your side here, Amy. I'm on your side. I'm not being mean by trying to get you to face reality, but a baby is coming. And it's not just enough to have a plan. You have to act on that plan. So what is your plan, Amy, Ben? Look I want to help you but I can't help you if you don't talk to me. And there are no easy answers. You either get a job, go to school, and get someone to help with child care, or you think seriously about adoption. But whatever choice you make it has to be what is right for your child, Amy, not just about what is easiest for you. You can't run away from this. You have to face the fact that you're halfway through your pregnancy and the baby's going to be here before you know it.

The whole world is high school.

You got the business, I got the house, you gave me the house, I own it, you're just living here.

What says I don't really wanna be married, but I had a baby in high school, so I got married, and now we're getting married again because my mother wants me to even though she's gay and can't find a date?

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Ashley

Wow, I can hardly wait until I have a baby so we can speak the same language again. "Grossly inappropriate"?

What are you? A girl now?

Customers in your store heard I was having sex? And how would they know I was having sex? The only person who would know is me... and my lover.

I know everything...and I have condoms.

I'm fine with people knowing that Amy's pregnant, I can stand it with people knowing that dad was having an affair, but what I can't stand is people knowing we're poor! That is the ultimate humiliation!

I really don’t care what anyone else thinks; as long as I feel like I’m doing is the right thing.

I don't want to cause trouble, sometimes I just do.

After the world collapses, the survivors start over again.

I thought I'd be used to being invisible by now.

What am I supposed to do? Stay here until I get pregnant too?

It's very stressful being around this family, it saps up all my energy.

Secret Life of the American Teenager: Amy

Mom, you're not 15, you can't hide a pregnancy as long as I did.

I'm missing out on everything, everyone else is doing. I feel like Old Mother Hubbard. I feel and I look like Old Mother Hubbard. The only good thing that came out of all this is boobs.

Does anyone really know when they’re about to make a mistake? If they knew they were going to make a mistake, then they wouldn’t make the mistake.

Mom, I'm pregnant and you're worried I'm gonna use bad words?

Because I'm not even sure if it was sex. It wasn't fun and definitely not like you see in the movies, you know all romantic and stuff.

When someone likes you, you can't help but like them back.

Maybe fate just intervened.

I think we'll be different things to each other at different times.

Adrian Boykewich. What kind of name is that? I'll tell you what kind of name it is, it's a name where the two names don't belong together because the two people don't belong together.

Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't always make a person happy Ben.

If you want me in your apartment and me in your bed, then you need to get a new bed.

Some things you have to learn on your own.

She's a skank! A straight-up skank!

I always want more. Or better or different than what I have.

It'll be fun to do something more high school and less adult for once.

Quit telling me what to do Old Man Ricky.

Look I don't mind suffering because I had a baby when I shouldn't have. But I do mind suffering because you two had a baby when you shouldn't have.

If your life isn't what you want it to be then do something about it. Stop being who you are and be who you wanna be.

We're all grown up now and Grace still has to have her mommy call my daddy because I said something mean to her?

Being a mother is my thing. And not getting to be a teenager is my other thing.

Have you learned nothing from me? You cannot have a baby and lead a normal life.

It's important to have friends. Girlfriends. Not just a boyfriend or guy friends, girlfriends.

The power of suggestion is really strong.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Instant Star Season Two

Jude: Summer jobs are a right of passage and this year I kinda got the greatest one. I became musical super girl and flew through every summer night. Living a life that would make a rocker's life elite: three trusty boy sidekicks, no chores, and bus full of empty calories. When it was quiet, this music super girl just plain couldn't believe her life, because most girls would love this job. Most girls would never want to come home. But they'd be wrong because coming home was the sweetest part of all.

Jude: Jamie Andrews. I'm a man managed enough to manage the unmanagable.

Jude: Doing it alone in the alley? That's the first sign of addiction, Quincy.
Tommy: I can stop any time I want.
Tommy: Come on. The first taste's always free.

Jude: Right. Okay, well, I'm just going to go home and put on a dress that your ex-wife has chosen, and go sing a song that Darius has picked out that I'm going to be singing after the kids who are replacing me. So, I say what?

Tommy: Look I don't want to sound like someone's dad. But sometimes we all gotta do things we don't want to do. it's called playing ball, Jude. Some of us gotta do it from time to time.

Jude: I feel like a wardrobe malfunction in progress.

Jude: Well, beautiful mermaid things do, but not the horrible, fakey, fraud things in tortured shoes belong in the back.

Jamie: I love you. Real Jude. Fierce Jude. The one who forgets to comb her hair, the one who writes songs that makes me want to punch people or cry. Sometimes simultaneously. You go out there. You be the Judiest Jude that you can be. they're going to love you just like I do. I promise.

Tommy: What about the part when I asked you to play ball? What do you thin that meant? That you were supposed to go out there tonight and pitch a diva fit?

There are mistakes and there are mistakes. There's not shoveling your icy sidewalk and there's realizing an iceberg about to sink your luxury liner. The captain of the Titanic would like to go back and add more lifeboats. Just like I'd give anything to go back to last night and sing what Darius wants. But I can't go back. All I can do is keep swimming and hope that someone throws my a life boat before I drown.

Jamie: If he's Johnny Depp, I'm Prince William.

Sadie: Look, don't get in between Jude and Tommy. They choose each other every time.

Sadie: It's called being a realist Jamie. You should try it before my little sister breaks your little heart.

Tommy: Yeah, because high school boyfriends know about music careers.

Sadie: Mom, why don't you say we 86 the royal dorks already?

Tommy: Right,'cuz nothing says legitimate singing contest like space prostitutes.

Jude: I'll sleep when I'm dead, Quincy.

Jude: In the last evil 48 hours I nearly lost my record contract and actually lost my boyfriend. Still they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, so I guess I should be worrying. Too bad I can barely squeak.

Van: You're a doll. No seriously you're like a doll, all blond, and manufactured. I can see my seven year old daughter want to shove you in the dream camper with your crotchless boyfriend. Speaking of which, are you getting any plastic boyfriend action, princess pop star. No boyfriend? I guess you should grab one quick before your career is over. Too late. Any last words before you hit the bottom of the delete bin?

Kyle: Just so I'm clear Jude, you're admiting you blow.
Spiederman: Well Van, if my blow you mean suck, then yes, I suck harder than an airplane toilet.
Kyle: Sounds to me like your clogged up.
Spiederman: You're clogged up, so there.

Tommy: All right kids, recess is over..."Over-rated" rolling on take one.
Spiederman: Over-rated, already got one.

Liam: I suppose her consistency could be considered a virtue.

Tommy: You could try a little less constipation and a little more Joplin.

Tommy: In the immortal words of Johnny Cash, you want them to feel it in their guts, you've got to sing it from your guts. So go find some.

Jude: I have emotional laryngitis.

Jude: No comeback is worth a Jamie encounter.

Jude: You think I'm over-rated, Skid mark. How about you tell your new girlfriend here, that nobody even likes you on the tour bus. We only keep you around because you're an okay guitar player. Or how about the fact that you wear the same ninja turtle pajamas every single night. Just had to say that. You, rock, You, ugh.

Patsy: I don't do industry dorks.

Patsy: Don't be mad. Be merciless.

Stuart: Find me a father who would finds bailing his daughter our of jail at 4:20 in the morning is a real chuckle.

Tommy: Pimp me out to your hot little friends? Might be pushing it.

Sadie: Excuse me B, get your hand off my hunny. What you're after is worth more than $2000. Trust me I would know.

Sadie: You can keep your sorority big nose, and snaps you the plastic surgeon that can handle that ginormous beak.

Jude: There's no encore so you all can shove it!

Jude: There's a girl that's glad is good for your hair. It makes it soft.

Jude: I didn't understand a word Mr. McCord said in physics. But I have my own secret about time and place. The Jude Principle says that sometimes the time, place, and other person can sometimes line up into perfection. Anyways, when that happens, I like to call it Tommy Time. Apparently the Darius and Liam continuum can squash the Jude Principle and end Tommy Time, at the speed of light.

Jude: In stores now, Jude Harrison's Greatest Divorce Hits, featuring Dad's number one single, "Take our love and shove it." And Mom's all-time shower favorite, "Daddy moved out, I moved on." Plus the bonus bootleg track, "Stuck in the middle with Jude."

Jamie: My Nana's pretty old school, as in no pierced punks before marriage.

Jamie: I'm pretty sure you're aware that breaking bottles over people's heads is wildly dangerous and quite possibly demented.

Patsy: Once you get past the kindergarten hair and strictly mall clothes, you don't suck as much.

Jamie: That's the best non-compliment I've ever received.

Mom: Oh it was over when you toured your travel agent.

Tommy: The last time I saw Saturday morning it was still Friday night.

Jude: I have two parents tearing each other apart, a four-month hiatus, and now that you're a corporate king of music everywhere, no you.

Spiederman: The dark lord Spiederman commands you pay your fee, mere mortals.

Kwest: Don't touch the board yo, not unless you want to keep that hand.

Jude: Don't. It won't help if you two spew any more testosterone and pee all over each other.

Patsy: Back for seconds, huh. I like a man with a big appetite.

Patsy: I like disappearing, when it gets time to disappear.

Tommy: It's a nice space. I like it.
Jude: Yeah. It feels right... Like a place where anything can happen.
Tommy: You know, you're a full-fledged artist now. You fight hard, and pretty soon you won't need anyone else.
Jude: I wouldn't have sung it like that if you didn't make me stand on my head first, and then shown up.
Tommy: We got a lot more in us, huh?

Jude: Can you just promise me one thing? Until then, if the door in there is ever locked -
Tommy: I'll just kick it down.

Jude: Dad said, people used to take better care of their cars. Maintenance matters in life, because in life you're never know when you're gonna hit a giant bump. If life is like cars, I hope my shock absorbers are working at giant capacity.

Mason: Miss Harrison, is it true you pay her to be your best friend?
Jude: Off the record, I pay extra for the curls.
Mason: Miss Harrison is it also true we have to media train because you got sent off to jail?
Jude: Hey! I'll show you a horror movie.

Sadie: My academic advisor says that anything that gets you out of your comfort zone is a victory.

Jude: So, I know that you said things come in threes. But when did you start hating me enough to be the third?
Kat: You have this glamorous life. I can't compete.
Jude: I'm not competing.
Kat: Yeah, but I am, and I can't win. I get a boyfriend and he's in love with you, I make a dress and you get designer freebies, I get a car and you get the coolest old car in the world. And then you get flowers from Tommy freakin' Q?

Jude: This year's must-have accessories for the rocker girl include a great new party song, a Fender telecaster, and a boyfriend. You know what, forget the boyfriend. Give me a killer back up band any day of the week.

Tommy: I love being a part of the Babysitter's Club.

Tommy: Banish those dirty thoughts, Yoko.
Jude: Excuse me?
Tommy: Yoko Ono. She fell in love with John Lennon. Broke up the Beatles.
Jude: Yeah, I know who she is, Gramps. I can't be the Yoko of my own band
Tommy: Thou shalt not make the concept album, thou shalt not let the drummer sing, and thou shalt not romance within the band.
Jude: Those guys are like my brothers.
Tommy: Your sophomore album is coming up and you've never sounded as good as you do with that band. So don't mess it up.
Jude: I don't have plans to.

Jude: Lately, I've kinda been the queen of pushing everyone away.

Wally: Dudes, we got something funnier than that clip of the squirrel on water skis.

Porsia: Some people think performing is only worth doing if you'll be a star.

Spiederman: I hope you model better than you play bass.

Porsia: Performing is 90% attitude.

Jude: I'm just sick of scaring everyone away.

Jude: Why would I want anything with such an incredible jack ass?

Jude: We have to find a new guitarist. One who can make us laugh and keep my nerves under control.
Tommy: Won't be easy. I mean, Vin Spiedermans... they don't exactly grow on trees.
Jude: Well, he had his chance, right?
Tommy: You think you can replicate that kind of chemistry with just anybody, Jude?
Jude: What? First you were like, "Jude, chemistry's bad, don't let it into the band." Now chemistry's good?
Tommy: No, but... when sparks fly, it *can* be really good for the work.
Tommy: You know what I'm saying?
Jude: Yeah, I think I do.

Jude: When I'm with him I feel like my ideas just click differently. You know, I feel like we could just jam forever.

Jude: Hello, Chicken-Jackass International.

Porsia: True diva never caves.

Spiederman: Just, you know, garbage picking isn't on my most attractive wualities list.

Jude: Some things just belong together. Sid and Nancy, peanut butter and jam, Sadie and musical theater. Okay, maybe not that last one. Other things that go together, people I love and the lies I tell to keep them happy.

Liam: Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Andrews, but I don't date my employees.

Tommy: Put your lips away Papa, I get your girl now.

Jude: It's like a model bomb went off. And they all look starving hungry.

Liam: We don't write the lyrics or the rifts, but we're the guys that make sure those little things make it out into the world.

Liam: Let me tell you a little secret. Musicians are like children. They've gotta be a little afraid of you in order to do their best stuff.

Sadie: Tommy here has been holding his own private auditions for America's Next Top Model.

Jude: I stopped buying what he's selling.

Sadie: Have you ever liked a guy so much it made you like yourself even less?

Jude: Show me a girl who's said she's never practice an award's speech in front of a bathroom mirror. And I'll show you a fibber. I used to put a towel on my head to pretend I had long pink hair and talk into Mom's hairbrush. I'm a nominee thank you. I'll ever bring my own hairbrush and towel.

Spiederman: Hair is important Jude. There's a whole genre of 80's rock devoted to it.

Jude: Apparently my hair is uncooperative.

Spiederman: I wasn't joking. Nobody wants to see that butt ugly hairdo up on stage again.

Jude: He's so completely gay, it doesn't matter.

Spiederman: She's like this awesome rock goddess, whether she's covered in mud or angry at me or whatever. She's just incredible. I'm proud of her. Way to go dude, Jude.

Jude: Sorry you can be such a butt-head.

Mason: Juderman. You guys are adorable.

Sadie: After her public dumping last birthday, I'm even giving Jude my pink candle.

Jude: Rule number one of Jude's birthday.
Sadie: No singing that song.

Jude: In your birthday horoscope you get to find out the famous people who share your birthday with. I share mine with Beethoven and Verdi. Cool. I also share my birthday with one of those bearded guitar players from ZZ Top. And then there seems to be certain lying, cheating people I'd rather not to spend my birthday with at all.

Jude: Hey, can you stop writing your groupies on your crack berry and listen to me.

Kwest: Hungry engineers don't make hit records, D.

Jamie: I'm sorry. Do you mean, did I hear about my ex-friend who fired me as a manager then hooked up with my girlfriend two nano-seconds after we broke up?

Waitress: If you are caught with forbidden utensils they will be taken and melted in our communal forge. If you need anything, stand on your hind legs and holler. Ug Ug is my name.

Spiederman: What can I say? Girl likes my sense of fun. Although I'm sure she misses your romantic trips to the morgue.

Spiederman: Don't chaoke dude, you gotta save air for your blowup girlfriend.

Jamie: You're at dinner with her family, Stifler. A little deportment.

Sadie: Jamie told Jude not to date you. He said you play guitar worst than madonna and you have the IQ of her cone bra. Spiederman does this great impression of you. It involves him pulling his pants up to his chest and reading. It makes Jude howl.

Tommy: You know, people... they don't always see who you really are. But I need you to try.
Jude: I always thought I saw the real you.
Tommy: Believe me, in me, again.

Jude: The good thing about school is, that it's way easier than real life. The good thing about real life is, that there are no midterm exams.

Darius: Just because you're muddy, doesn't mean it's not still you.

Patsy: People always buy crap music.

Porsia: Smile. Look pretty and say, I don't hate school at all.

Jude: I don't hate school not like Tommy hates school.

Tommy: What? I just get nervous around screaming girls that try to tear my clothes off.

Tommy: "Hey kid get used to people not liking your stuff"?

Tommy: And you know why you need me? Because I always pull you through, I always tell you to keep going. That little girl is going to quit Jude, because no one told her to keep going.

Spiederman: Dude, leave your women troubles at the door. This is a place for music.
Jamie: Isn't music always about women troubles?

Spiederman: Patsy loves a few precious things in this world. Whiskey on her cereal. A rowdy guy on a guitar.
Jamie: You said a few. Few is more than two. I'm not old enough to buy whiskey and I can't play guitar.
Spiederman: Ain't no romance in pie charts. You wanna turn Patsy on or not?

Sadie: Don't you stereotypes just misspell song titles anyways? I mean, there's only one R in 'dirty'.
Jude: Stereotypes can be smart too. I mean, Darius has three degrees.
Sadie: While Tommy Q punched people and dropped out at grade 7 to his eternal drunken regret. Okay, you didn't hear that from me.

Jude: You have to say what you have to say. It's the most important thing in the world. They're all going to see how good you are if you keep going. You gotta pick good influences too.

Jamie: Look, you can smash my calculator.

Jude:It is about music. I'm going to have trouble making my mouth permanently sealed
shut.

Jude: Spied, for question four, write "All us quitar stars think elbows are for losers."

Jude: When I was a kid, my sister Sadie loved to dress up. Then she's hide in some weird place in our house. Then Sadie would wait and pop out when I least expected it. Kinda like that, and I hated it just as much back then. Because when you're not expecting something, it feels 20 times more awful, even with your sister there.

Jude: You say distracting, I say inspiring.

Spiederman: Ladies and gentleman. The "Why can't we have Kwest" blues. King Kwest was the best. He made us a big sandwich fest. But now he's lost his crown. And now we're stuck with Lord Squinty Frown.

Jamie: What's the difference between a musician and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family.

Jude: No vacancies for evil.

Spiederman: Dudes, we didn't break in here to bicker like little girls. We broke in here to teach pretty boy a little lesson about humor.

Tommy: Yeah I went shopping at the "Hip-Hop Moguls-R-Us."
Darius: Once I start strangling somebody I get this hysterical deafness.
Tommy: You know, I wanted a new vibe in here. I thought I'd pimp it out a little. I gotta say, I am all about this cougar right now.

Tommy: This ain't the Prank King style. This is amateur. But I bet I can tell you who the amateurs are.

Spiederman: Dude, you killed him?
Tommy: Look, man, he came in screaming, alright? He said I stole his stuff! And then he came at me and struggled with the gun, and then - D, I forgot... What happened next?
Darius: You shot me, T.
Tommy: That's right, I shot him.

Jude: We never really were Romeo and Juliet anyways.
Spiederman: More like Bart and Lisa Simpson.

Tommy: I took a chance. Shoot me.
Jude: Hmm. Taking chances seems to be all the rage these days.

Tommy: You go into my studio again, and I will squash you until your converse shoes and your emo haircut are neighbors! You left this on my soundboard.

Jude: You should be a mushroom cloud of hair gel and leather! Our album just got turfed!

Tommy: Sometimes you are just so... seventeen.

Tommy: It's romantic, it's got passion, it's...
Jude: It's about you! On the tour bus, coming home and seeing you was almost all I could think about. And, I wanted to put those feelings away. To stay safe.

Jude: My favorite part about wrapping an album is holding the mixed CD in my hand for the first time. It's proof, shiny, smooth, silver proof that I did it, that we did it. And with those few words, my shiny proof, my album, just turns into another plastic disc of nothing.

Jude: Why? Because I didn't want to make out with you on a stinky bus with a fist full of syrup?

Spiederman: The thing is, actions speak louder than words. And your actions, I think they're trying to say something.

Jude: If you're doing an impersonation of Sadie, you'll need bigger hair and a bigger snare.

Jude: "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." Wow, sometimes you can be so twenty-four.

Tommy: You know the first time you finished an album I was the jerk, who didn't get you anything.

Jude: Don't touch the hotel bedspreads, they never really wash them.

Jude: Every question you have in life can be answered by Joey Ramone lyrics. Joey wrote "Touring. Touring's never boring. Let's go, let's go." But he also wrote, "Do you love me back? What do you say? Do you love me back?" Only one person can answer that question for me, Tommy Quincy, do you love me back?

Darius: You don't have to dream, that's what I'm hear for.

Sadie: What is this? Some sort of kinky, James Bond fantasy of yours?

Liam: You've got 13.5 minutes to find me a rock star smile.

Sadie: I don't date industry guys.
Kwest: I don't date girls who push my buttons.

Jamie: I'm kinda obsessive compulsive when it comes to you.

Jude: I want to run away and hide in Mason's guitar case. And go on tour.

Mason: Hey, what happens on tour, stays on tour.

Jamie: Jude, there are people who love you, at home, here in this room. Theres only one way to get your music back.

Jude: Yeah, face it. I have to face the music.

Darius: Most artists hit number one before they have a breakdown. But you gotta do everything all unique, huh?

Saturday, March 20, 2010

American Dreams: Season Three

Patty: You're not smart enough to get a scholarship.

Patty: You can't pray somebody dead. If that were true, I'd be an only child.

Helen: I'm not supporting a war, Beth. I'm supporting my son.

Roxanne: While some of us were learning to skateboard, others were trying to make a difference in the world.

Roxanne: Anything is better than Salisbury steak and fish sticks.

Patty: God only listens if you pray about good things, not bad things.

Roxanne: I really don't think it's a coincidence that witches and nuns dress alike.

Roxanne: It's hard to ignore something that cute.

Jack: City's changing. You gotta change with it.

Roxanne: First rule of fun, don't call it an "organizational meeting." Call it a party.

Meg: Guys hate ultimatums.

Meg: I guess ultimatums do work.

Patty: She's "playing the field".

Jack: You can't tell people what to do or why they should do it. All you can do is tell them why you're doing it and hope that is enough.

Meg: I just want to make people stop and think about what we're doing over there in Vietnam. To at least ask why, before more and more guys are sent over there.

Jack: If you and me are going down, we're going down swingin'.

Tommy: Remind me not to marry a girl who grew up with money.

Helen: I'm a mother. Paul O'Bannon's mother doesn't care what he is. She just wants him safe. That's being a parent, JJ. No matter what your child does or is.

Meg: I looked at him and saw something real for the first time.

Pete: The devil must be paid.

Meg: Since when did guys get hints?

Patty: I don't believe in proms. They're pointless and juvenile. I mean, getting all dressed up and taking pictures standing in front of the punch bowl. It's all a tremendous waste of time and energy but thank you for asking.

Miss Pierce: He's one of those guys who are really good at disappearing.

Meg: I have friends, Patty. Do you know what that feels like?

Sam: It's not you, Meg. Some guys are jerks.

Sam: Everybody should have at least one dance on their prom night.

Meg: I keep just picking guys who are wrong.

Meg: Fellow members of the class of '66. I wanted to give a speech today about how our lives can be anything that we want them to be, about how the future is now. But I cannot give that speech. Not anymore. I can't because there are still walls that we have to tear down. And there are still rivers that we have to cross. The future isn't something that we can simply imagine. The future isn't something that can just arrive on our doorsteps. The future, the future is something that we have to fight for. We have to fight with all that we have. We must fight the hatred and prejudice not just in society but we have to fight the hatred and prejudice that we find in our own hearts. And until we win that battle, the future isn't bound. It's not even close. The future is just a hidden dream. Thank you, and congratulations!

Pete: That's a nice birthday present, right? An iron?

JJ: When I was in high school, I thought I'd be that guy. That guy to go to the moon.

Meg: I thought they wanted to change the world, but really all they wanted to do was drop out of it.

Rory: I'll tell you what Iam... bored outta my skull and I'll tell you want Uam... a nerd!

Rory: I found out what Uam. Uam... adopted.

Father Conti: God asks us to consider our motives in all we do. A desire to end suffering is not a reason to end a life. Just as loving someone is not a reason to keep them alive. Pray for guidance, Jack. You'll find the answer.

Patty: Have you ever felt 'not cool'?

Roxanne: Meg, think back. Before I got you on Bandstand, think marching band. Remember that red hat you used to wear? Think Meg really liked being Meg?

Chris: The only think about Philadelphia I'm gonna miss is you.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Bella: "Some say the world will end in fire/ Some say in ice/ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire/ But if I had to perish twice/ I think I know enough of hate/ To s ay that for destruction ice/ Is also great/ And would suffice."

Bella: Marriage is just... It's a piece of paper.
Edward: Where I'm from, it's the way one says, "I love you."
Bella: Well, where I come from, at my age, it's the way one says, "I just got knocked up."

Mike: "My fellow students." Right? Right? "We are the future." "Anything is possible if you just believe."

Jacob: Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her, everything changes. All of a sudden it's not gravity holding you to the planet, it's her. Nothing else matters. You would do anything, be anything for her.

Jacob: Better you be really dead than one of them.

Edward: Doesn't he own a shirt?

Billy: The Quileutes have been a small tribe at the beginning, but we have always had magic in our blood. We were great spirit warriors, shape-shifters that transformed to the powerful wolf. This enabled us to scare off our enemies and protect our tribe. One day, our warriors came across a creature. It looked like a man, but it was hard like stone and cold as ice. Our warriors' sharp teeth finally tore it apart, but only fire would completely destroy it. They lived in fear that the cold man was not alone. And they were right. She took her vengeance out on the village. Our elder chief, Taha Aki, was the only spirit warrior left to save the tribe after his son was killed. Taha Aki's third wife could see that he would lose. The third wife was no magical being, with no special powers but one, courage. The third wife's sacrifice distracted the cold woman long enough for Taha Aki to destroy her. She saved the tribe. Over time, our enemies have disappeared. But one remains, the cold ones. Our magic awakens when they're near, and we sense it now. We feel the threat in our blood. Something terrible is coming, and we must all be ready, all of us.

Edward Cullen: I know the consequences of the choices you're making. I've lived through it. And to let you suffer that...You believe I have a soul, and I don't. But to risk yours, just for the sake of never having to lose you, that's the most selfish thing I'll ever do.
Bella: I thought you'd be afraid that I'd be too different. You know, like, I wouldn't be warm, and I wouldn't smell the same.
Edward: You'll always be my Bella.

Jacob: You need to know the truth, Bella, understand all your options. And you need to know that I'm in love with you and I want you to choose me instead of him.

Jacob: You feel something else more me, you just won't admit. I'm not giving up. I'm gonna fight for you until your heart stops beating.

Jacob: You wouldn't have to change for me, Bella, or say goodbye to anybody. I can give you more than him. I mean, he probably can't even kiss you without hurting you. Feel that? Flesh and blood. And warmth.

Jacob: I kissed Bella. And she broke her hand. Punching my face. Total misunderstanding.

Rosalie: You have a choice. I didn't. None of us did. But you do, and you're choosing wrong. I don't care how miserable your human life is.
Bella: My life is not miserable. I mean, it's not perfect. Nobody's life is perfect.
Rosalie: Mine was. Absolutely perfect. There were things I still wanted, to be married, with a nice house and a husband to kiss me when he came home, a family of my own. Royce King was the most eligible bachelor in town. I barely knew him. But I was young. I was in love with the idea of love. On the last night of my life, I left a friend's house late. I wasn't far from home. They left me in the street, thinking I was dead. Believe me, I wanted to be. Carlisle found me, he smelled all the blood. Thought he was helping me. I got my revenge on them. One at a time. Saved Royce for last so that he knew that I was coming. I was a little theatrical back then. Things got better after I found Emmett. But we'll always be this. Frozen. Never moving forward. That's what I miss the most. Possibilities. Sitting on a front porch somewhere, Emmett, gray-haired, by my side, surrounded by our grandchildren. Their laughter.
Bella: I understand, that's what you want. But there's nothing I'm ever gonna want more than Edward.
Rosalie: You're wrong again. After you've been changed, there's one thing you'll want more, one thing you'll kill for. Blood.

Jessica: When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our answers were things like astronaut, president, or in my case, a princess. When we were ten, they asked again. We answered rock star, cowboy or, in my case, a gold medalist. But now that we've grown up, they want a serious answer. Well, how about this? Who the hell knows? This isn't the time to make hard-and-fast decisions. This is the time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love a lot. Major in philosophy, because there's no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind, and change it again, because nothing's permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask what we want to be, we won't have to guess. We'll know.

Bella: Was my right hook too subtle for you? That was me uninviting you.

Jasper: The two most important things to remember are first, never let them get their arms around you. They'll crush you instantly.And second, never go for the obvious kill. They'll be expecting that, and you will lose.

Jasper: Never lose focus.

Jasper: One more thing. Never turn your back on your enemy.

Jasper: I was the youngest major in the Texas Cavalry, all without having seen any real battle. Till I met a certain immortal. Maria. I was riding back to Galveston after evacuating a column of women and children when I saw them. I immediately offered them my aid.
Bella: Maria was creating an army?
Jasper: They were very common in the south. There were constant brutal battles for territory. Maria won them all. She was smart, careful, and she had me. I was her second in command. My ability to control emotions served her well. I trained her newborns, an endless occupation since she never let them live beyond their first year. It was my job to dispose of them. I could feel everything they felt. I thought what Maria and I had was love. But I was her puppet. She pulled the strings. I didn’t know there was another way till I found Alice. Now, she’d seen me coming of course.

Edward: The only way I can protect you is to be with you.

Jacob: Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others.
Bella: Don’t start. Everybody makes choices. You’re gonna have to learn to accept mine.
Jacob: But you can love more than one person at a time. I’ve seen it. With Sam, Emily, and Leah.
Bella: Well, I’m not a wolf. I can’t imprint.
Jacob: It has nothing to do with imprinting. It has to do with feeling something for somebody. And I know you feel something for me. I can sense how I make you feel, physically. I make you nervous.
Bella: Jake.
Jacob: Don’t worry. I promised not to kiss you again until you ask.

Edward: I promise to love you every moment of forever.

Jacob: Let's face it, I am hotter than you.

Jacob: You have to consider that I might be better for her than you are.

Edward: If we weren't natural enemies, and you weren't trying to steal my reason for existing, I might actually like you.
Jacob: Well if you weren't planning on sucking the life out of the girl I love, I might... No. Not even then.

Edward: Number one is when you said you'd marry me, Mrs. Cullen.

Edward: You're trying to make everyone else happy, but you're always giving away too much.

Bella: This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It's between who I should be and who I am. I've always felt out of step, like literally stumbling through my life.I've never felt normal. Because I'm not normal. I don't want to be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger and more real, more myself. Because it's my world, too. It's where I belong.

Bella: I've made a mess trying to figure this out and I want to do it right. And I wanna tie myself to you in every way humanly possible.
Edward: Starting with a wedding.
Bella: Actually, something a little more difficult first. And maybe even dangerous. We have to tell Charlie.
Edward: It's highly dangerous.
Bella: It's a good thing your bulletproof. I'm gonna need that ring.

Twilight Saga: New Moon

Bella Swan: "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die. Like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume."

Bella Swan: Hello biceps. You know, anabolic steroids are really bad for you.

Edward: You can't trust vampires... Trust me.

I hate being celebrated.
There are worst tragedies, I mean, look at Romeo. Killed his true love out of sheer stupidity. Though I do envy him one thing.
Juliet is, like, perfect. If you like that obviously beautiful sort of thing.
Not the girl, the suicide. It's nearly impossible for... For some people. For humans, a little poison, a dagger to the heart. There's so many options.

Edward: "O here will I set up my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you, the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!"

Edward: The Volturi are a very old, powerful family. I guess they're the closest thing to royalty my world has.
Bella: Is that Carlisle?
Edward: Yes. He lived with them for a few decades. Defined them as very refined, no respect for human lives but a respect for the arts and the sciences, at least. And the law. Above all, the law.
Bella: Vampires have laws?
Edward: Not very many. And only one that's regularly enforced.
Bella: What is it?
Edward: That we keep the existence of our kind a secret. We don't make spectacles of ourselves and we don't kill conspicuously. Unless, of course, you want to die.

Edward: The only thing that could hurt me, is you. I don't have anything else to be afraid of.

Bella: I could protect you, if you change me.
Edward: Bella, you already do protect me. You're my only reason to stay alive, if that's what i am. But it's my job to protect you. From everyone, except my sister.

Emmett: Dating an older woman, hot.

Carlisle: No, I knew who I wanted to be, I wanted to help people. It brings me happiness, Even if I am damned regardless.
Bella: Damned? Like hell? Carlisle, you couldn't be damned. You couldn't. It's impossible.

Bella: You can't protect me from everything. At some point, something's gonna separate us. It's gonna be an accident or illness, or old age, as long as I'm human. the only solution is to change me.
Edward: That's not a solution. That's a tragedy.
Bella: You're not gonna want me when I look like a grandmother.
Edward: Bella, do you not understand my feelings for you at all?
Bella: Carlisle told me how you feel about your soul. I don't believe it. So don't worry about mine.
Edward: You should go inside.
Bella: It's still my birthday. So can I ask one thing? Kiss me? I love you.
Eward: I love you.

Edward: You just don't belong in my world, Bella.
Bella: I belong with you.
Edward: No. You don't.
Bella: I'm coming.
Edward: Bella, I don't want you to come.
Bella: You don't want me?
Edward: No.
Bella: That changes things a lot.
Edward: But if it's not too much to ask, can you just promise me something. Don't do anything reckless. For Charlie's sake. And I'll promise you something in return. This is the last time you'll ever see me. I won't come back. And you can go on with your life without any interference from me. It will be like I never existed, I promise.
Bella: If this is about my soul, take it. I don't want it without you.
Edward: It's not about your soul. You're just not good for me.
Bella: Not good enough for you.
Edward: I'm just sorry I let this go on for so long.
Bella: Please, don't.
Edward: Goodbye.
Bella: Edward.

Bella: Alice. You've disappeared. Like everything else. Now who else can I talk to? I'm lost. When you left, and he left, you took everything with you. The absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest. But in a way, I'm glad. The pain is the only reminder that he was real. That you all were.

Jessica: I don't know why you wanted to sit through all those zombies eating people and no hot guys anywhere. It's gross. Like... And why are there that many zombie movies anyway? 'Cause if it's supposed to, like, draw a parallel about leprosy, my cousin had leprosy. It's not funny, you know? And, like, is it supposed to be a metaphor for consumerism? Because don't be so pleased with your own, like, self- referential cleverness, you know?Like, some girls like to shop. Not all girls, apparently. Although I was surprised you even called at all. You know? Like, your depression thing, I get it. I'm totally, totally worried. But after a while, it's like you're still bumming... and I'm going through stuff too. You know? Like Mike deciding he just wants to be friends. You know? Like and since when does "just friends"...

Edward: You promised me nothing reckless.
Bella: You promised it would be as if you never existed. You lied.

Jessica: You're insane, actually. Or suicidal. That homeboy could've been a psycho. I was about to end up in an FBI interview room like some lame TV show.
Bella: That was such a rush.
Jessica: Awesome. So you're an adrenaline junkie now? That's cool. You could go bungee jumping. You don't get on the back of some random loser's motorcycle. Crazy.

Bella: Alice. I saw him. Maybe I'm crazy now, but I guess that's okay. If a rush of danger is what it takes to see him, than that's what I'll find.

Bella: I get it if you think this is stupid and reckless.
Jacob: Yeah, I mean, it's completely stupid and reckless. When do we start?

Bella: Jake, you're, like, buff. How did that happen? You're, like, 16. I don't get it.
Jacob: Mmm-hmm. Age is just a number, baby. What are you, like, 40 now?

Bella: If we're going to do this every day, and hopefully we are. We've got to fit some homework in there. I don't want Billy thinking I'm a bad influence on you.
Jacob: You? Influence me? Please.
Bella: Are you... I'm older than you, so that makes me the influencer and you the influencee.
Jacob: No, no, no. My size and knowledge base actually makes me older than you, because of your general paleness and lack of know-how.
Bella: I convinced you to build two-wheeled death machines with me. Don't you think that makes you kind of young and naive?
Jacob: Okay, so where do we stand?
Bella: I'm 35. You might be like 32.
Jacob: Come on.

Bella: Dear Alice, I wish I had your real address. I wish I could tell you about Jake. He makes me feel better. I mean, he makes me feel alive. The hole in my chest, well, when I'm with Jake, it's like it's almost healed, for a while.

Bella: Oh... Well... I'm not really into the whole cougar thing.

Bella: But not even Jake can keep the dream away.

Charlie Swan: Can I ask you something? Hanging out with Jake seems to take your mind off things for a bit, doesn't it? You know, sometimes, you gotta learn to love what's good for you. You know what I mean? Of course, what do I know? I'm just a terminal bachelor. Famous ladies' man.

Jacob: Embry used to call them hall monitors on steroids.

Jacob: What, you're apologizing for bleeding?

Bella: You're sort of beautiful.

Jacob: Look, I know what he did to you. But, Bella, I would never ever do that. I wont ever hurt you. I promise. I wont let you down. You can count on me.

Harry Clearwater: Those bears won't get the drop on me, Bella. My Kung Fu is strong.

Bella: You cut your hair off? And got a tattoo? I thought you were too sick to come outside or pick up the phone when I called.
Jacob: Go away.
Bella: What?
Jacob: Go away.
Bella: What happened to you? What's wrong? Hey. What happened? Did Sam get to you? Is that what's happening?
Jacob: Sam's trying to help me. Don't blame him. But if you want somebody to blame, how about those filthy bloodsuckers you love, the Cullens?
i don't know what your talking about.
you know exactly what I'm talking about. you've been lying to everyone. charlie. but you can't lie to me. not anymore Bella.look, Bella, we can't be friends anymore.
look, Jake, i know that I've been hurting you. its killing me. it kills me. i just need... give me some time or something.
look, don't. its not you.
its not you, its me, right? really?
its true. it is me. I'm not good. i used to be a good kid. not anymore. this doesn't even matter. this is over
you cant break up with me. i mean, i mean, your my best friend. you promised me.
i know. i promised i would never hurt you Bella. and this is me keeping that promise. go home and don't come back or your gonna get hurt.

Bella: Alice... Things are bad again. Without Jake... I can't stand it. I don't see Edward anymore. Will it really feel like he never existed? I will find a place where I can see him again.

Laurent: How much could you mean to him if he left you here, unprotected. Victoria won't be happy about my killing you. But I can't help myself, you are so... mouth-watering.

Jacob: Have you ever had a secret you couldn't tell anyone, one that wasn't yours to share? Well, that's what it's like for me. But worse. You have no idea how tight I'm bound.

Embry: Guess, the wolf's out of the bag.

Bella: Alice, is it possible that everything's true? The fairy tales and horror stories? Is it possible that there isn't anything sane and normal at all?

Emily: So, you're the vampire girl.
Bella: So, you're the wolf girl.

Embry: That's a wolf thing. Alpha's orders get obeyed whether we say anything or not. And check it out. We can hear each other's thoughts.
Jared: Would you shut up? These are trade secrets. Damn it! This chick runs with vampires.
Bella: You can't really run with vampires. 'Cause they're fast.
Jared: Yeah, we're faster. Freaked out yet?
Bella: You're not the first monsters I've met.
Sam: Jake's right, you're good with weird.

Jacob: We're not killing anyone.
Bella: Then who is?
Jacob: What we are trying to protect you from. The only thing we do kill, vampires.

Bella: Alice, I'm alright. Until I'm alone. And lately, that's all the time. Jacob's gone, he's hunting Victoria. And Charlie's hunting Jacob. And you're gone. And so is Edward. And there's just nothing now. But I realize where I have to go, what I have to do to see him again.

Bella: You wanted me to be human. Watch me. You won't stay with me any other way.

Bella: It must be nice never getting cold.
Jacob: It's a wolf thing.
Bella: It's not. It's a Jacob thing. You're just warm. You're like your own sun.

Bella: Okay, not that you need me to tell you something like this, but I always will. You're not gonna lose yourself. I wouldn't let that happen.
Jacob: How?
Bella: I'll tell you all the time how special you are.

Jacob: You're about to cross a line.
Bella: Then don't draw it. Please.

Alice: I have never met anyone more prone to life-threatening idiocy.

Alice: Bella, what is that God awful wet dog smell?
Bella: That's probably me. It's Jacob.
Alice: Jacob who?
Bella: Jacob's kind of a werewolf.
Alice: Ugh! Bella! Werewolves are not good company to keep!

Alice: I can't see past you and your pack of mutts.
Jacob: Do not get me upset. Things are gonna get very ugly!

Alice Cullen: I didn't think you would be opposed to grand theft auto.

Bella: I needed to make you see me once.You had to know I was alive and that you didn't have to feel guilty about anything. I can let you go now.
Edward: I never acted out of guilt. I just couldn't live in a world where you didn't exist.
Bella: But you said...
Edward: I lied. I had to lie. But you believed me so easily.
Bella: Because it doesn't make sense for you to love me. I mean, I'm nothing. I'm human. I'm nothing.
Edward: Bella, you're everything to me. You're everything.

Aro: How extraordinary! You would give up your life for someone like us. A vampire. A soulless monster.
Bella: You don't know a thing about his soul.

Edward: Bella, the only reason why I left is because I thought I was protecting you. I needed you to have a chance at a normal, happy life.

Edward: Leaving you was the hardest thing I've done in 100 years. And I swear, I will never fail you again. I'm so sorry. Charlie's coming.

Edward: I'm not technically breaking any of his rules. He did say I couldn't take a step through his door. I came in through the window. He's not going to forgive me easily.
Bella: I know.
Edward: Can you? I hope you can, because, I honestly don't know how to live without you.

Bella: Once Alice changes me, you can't get rid of me.
Edward: She won't need to change you. There are always ways to keep the Volturi in the dark.

Jasper: I vote "yes". It would be nice to not want to kill you all the time.

Rosalie: I'm sorry. I'm really sorry to both of you for how I've acted. And I'm really grateful that you were brave enough to go save my brother. But this isn't a life I would have chosen for myself. And I wish that there had been someone to vote "no" for me. So, no.

Carlisle: You've chosen not to live without her, which leaves me no choice. I won't lose my son.

Jacob: If any of them bites a human, the truce is over.

Bella: Jake, I love you. So please, don't make me choose, 'cause it'll be him. It's always been him.

Bella: Stop! Stop! You can't hurt each other without hurting me.

Edward: I just have one condition, if you want me to do it myself.
Bella: What's the condition?
Edward: And then forever.
Bella: That's what I'm asking.
Edward: Marry me, Bella.

Dear John

Savannah Curtis: Randy, you shouldn’t make fun of a guy that can kill you with his bare hands. – Savannah

John Tyree: Our story has 3 parts a beginning, a middle and an end and although this is the way all stories unfold I still cant believe ours didn't go on forever.

Savannah:
Dear John,
Two weeks together, that's all it took. Two weeks for me to fall in love with you. Now we have one year apart. But what's one year apart after two weeks like that together. You made me a promise, a promise I know you'll keep. So I only want one more promise from you during this time we spend apart. Tell me everything, write it all down, John. Scribble it in a notebook, type it out, email it to me. That way, before we know it, I'll see you soon then.

Savannah Curtis: The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.

John Tyree: It doesn't matter where you are in the world, it's never bigger than your thumb.

John Tyree: It's a full moon tonight that makes me think of you, half a world away.

Savannah: We'll be with each other all the time, even if we're not together at all.

John: I miss you so much it hurts.

Rock ‘em and sock ‘em. – Randy

Did you ever notice how big the moon is as it’s rising, and how little it is in the sky? – Savannah

For the record, if you do anything to hurt Savannah, I’m gonna have to break something, something in your leg, one of the bones in there. It’s just that I know her father and he would expect me to say something like that, it just sounded better coming from him. – Tim

There’s a never-ending stream of curse words in my mind. – Savannah

The way people act around you, like the way they treated you at that restaurant, its like they’re scared of you. – Savannah

They’re not scared of me. Maybe afraid of who I used to be. – John

Dear savannah,
I promise. I promise I’ll see you soon, then. I promise I’ll write all the time. I promise I’ll tell you everything. Be patient with me it may take a while for these letters to get back to you. We’ve already been deployed on a mission. The problem is, we can’t exactly use the local postal service and there’s no such thing as an Internet connection. So I have to send everything out by air. Unfortunately I can’t tell you where here is, all I can tell you is that the place where we’ve been sent makes me miss America very much, and the lack of anything resembling an ocean makes me miss Charleston. And everything around me makes me miss you. We move around a lot so letters tend to come late and out of order, so we may want to number our letters so we get them in the right order. But when they do get here, it’s a good day. Whenever they don’t, it’s not. But I know they will still come. I know it.

Letter #8
Dear John,
I’m back at my parents’ house for the weekend. I have some houseguests you may know. I took Allen out riding with me today; it was his first time on a horse. You’ve heard of horse sense, how some horses are able to sense danger, sense that evil. Well, I think autistic kids have that too, so, I have this idea, this dream. I want to open up a summer camp for autistic kids, a place where they can ride horses as much as they want. For once in their life where they won’t have to worry about a thing. What do you think? Pipe dream, huh?

No, it’s not a pipe dream. It’s a perfect dream. - John
Letter #33
Dear Savannah,
The good news is we’ve been sent somewhere new. Although I can’t tell you where that is either. The bad news is, this place actually makes me miss the old place. But it’s a full moon tonight, which makes me think of you, because I know no matter what I’m doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.

Dear John,
Most nights I fall asleep worrying about you, wondering where you may be out there. Not tonight. Tonight you’re here with me. I visited your dad yesterday. Summer’s almost over and I wanted to see him before I went back to school. I hope that’s okay. He made me dinner, it was Sunday so we had lasagna and I got him talking about his coins. So we had plenty of conversation. So I’ll ask you instead John, wherever you may be. What’s the story?

Dear Savannah,
Only because I promise to tell you everything. When I was seven years old, I bought an ice cream cone. On my way home, I noticed that one of the pennies wasn’t actually a penny. Remember the horse sense you were talking about? Well my dad has it too. At first I loved chasing after those mules with my father. We finally had something to talk about. You know, something we could do together. But he became obsessed with them, and you know how he is. And then I became a teenager, and you know how I am. Eventually he stopped talking about coins with me altogether and when that happened we found out that there wasn’t that much to talk about together. So that’s the story. I miss you so much.

I bench press refrigerators. – Savannah’s dad

Well, I guess, the worse thing you could say about your father is that he tried to protect you too much. That’s a pretty good father, isn’t it? – Tim

None of the soldiers I know need to be asked, sir. And we sure as hell don’t need to be told. – John


Dear John,
I know it’s been way too long since I last wrote you. I’ve been staring at this blank page for the last two hours. Well, to be honest, I’ve been staring at it for the last two months. Please forgive me for what I’m about to say and know that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. My life without you has no meaning and I cannot live without it.

Oh, Jesus, I never loved a piece of clothing more in my entire life. - Soldier


Dear Dad,
There’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you. Remember a few years back, when I got shot, you know, the very first thing that entered my mind at that moment, right before I blacked out. Coins. Suddenly I was 8 years old again, was on that tour of the U.S. mint and I was listening to the guy explain how coins were made, how they punch that sheet metal, how they are rimmed, and beveled, how they are stamped and cleaned. And how each batch of coins is personally examined just in case any of them slipped thru with the slightest infraction. You remember that Dad, that trip to Philadelphia we took. Well that’s what popped into my head. I am a coin, of the United States Army. I was minted the year 1980. I was punched thru sheet metal; I’ve been stamped and cleaned. My edges have been rimmed and beveled. But now I have two small holes in me. So I’m no longer in perfect condition. How about it? We’re just a couple of coins, you know. There’s one more thing that I want to tell you too. After I got shot, right before I blacked out, you want to know the very last thing I thought of, was you.

Just hearing your voice, I would have changed my mind. – Savannah

Dear John,
It’s been almost five years since I’ve wrote an actual letter with an actual pen on an actual sheet of paper, but I thought I could write you now and tell you all that’s happened since I saw you last. A few weeks after you showed up here, Tim received an anonymous donation. A donation that was enough to give him what the insurance company wouldn’t. Time. Time to finally come home. Time to spend with his son. Time to say goodbye. The problem with time I’ve learned, whether it was those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or those final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John, but I understand that I lost the right to know these things a long time ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as it ever was. I’ll see you soon then.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

One Tree Hill: Julian Baker

Julian: I can't believe I'm saying this, but you need to put more clothes on.

Julian: If I work with you in yours I'll never see Brooke in hers again. [referring to underwear with Alex the model/actress]

Julian: It just doesn't seem realistic to me. The girl rips her clothes off and throws herself at the guy for no reason.

Julian: I thought you would actually take this seriously, guess that was my mistake.

Julian: Let’s just say, she’s the person you though she was.

Julian: I’m here now and all ready to take my clothes off for you in the back room so you can send your little boy toy packing.

Julian: Sorry to disappoint you but your “tall dark and handsome” is getting naked with my “short hot and bossy.”

Julian: Do you ever meet people on tour that surprise you with their talent? I mean, uh, somebody who seems simple or goofy, or even ditzy, and then Bam! They write this amazing song.

Julian: We're us Brooke. You're the girl I love with all my heart and I'm the boy that's gonna be with you forever. We don't have to rush anything. Forever is a very long time.

Julian: I’m not a guys’ guy. I don’t have homies.

Julian: First rule of camping, also be prepared.

Julian: I am directionally challenged.

Julian: This is a true story about an old witch who used to live in these old woods. Her name was Dragora. She had a wooden leg and you could hear it dragging in the mud. Well the day after she died, some kids decided they wanted to dig up her body and steal her wooden leg. Then just about midnight on a night just like tonight, they heard it. Dragora was coming back for her leg.

Julian: The problem is the romantic lead looks like the love child of Richard Simmons and a village person.

Julian: Obviously we love each other but every time we get close enough one of us puts up a wall. It’s not easy being on the other side of that wall. When Brooke Davis puts up a wall it's not coming down until she's ready.